Guide to the Earl Blake Cox Family Papers 1759-1863
Cage 93

Summary Information

Repository
Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Creator
Cox, Earl Blake Family
Title
Earl Blake Cox Family Papers
ID
Cage 93
Date [inclusive]
1759-1863
Extent
5 folders., .5 linear feet of shelf space.
Language
Collection materials are in English.
Abstract
Receipt book, 1759-1771, New York, presumed to be John Anderson's; diary of Nathaniel P. Millard, 1856-1859, Louisiana sawmill operator; letters of E.W. Fuller, 1863, while in Union prisoner of war camps; Fuller's portrait; donor file; and Flora's Dictionary, by Mrs. E.W. Wirt, interleaved with Fuller's letters.

Preferred Citation

[Item Description]. Guide to the Earl Blake Cox Family Papers, Cage 93. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

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Biography/History

This collection of family papers contains a book of receipts, 1759-1763, apparently kept by Captain John Anderson, who family tradition connects with Alexander Hamilton. Anderson's daughter Affie Brower Anderson (b. 1753) married Sylvester Fuller (1753-1815) in 1776.

Their son, Alfonso Theodore Poster Fuller (1792-1857) and his wife Mary Swain, had thirteen children. The eldest son, Emelious Wood Fuller, a steamboat Captain, was captured and held prisoner by the Union army in 1863, where he wrote letters to his wife Mary B. Fuller on the blank leaves in Mrs. Wirt's Flora's Dictionary. His sister, Adela Romaine Fuller, married a Cox who was Earl Blake Cox's grandfather. Captain E. W. Fuller's daughter, Mary Rozealia Anderson Fuller, who died in 1922, had married Nathaniel Pritchard Millard (1819-1879) on November 18, 1857. Millard was a sawmill operator in Louisiana and kept a diary from 1856-1859. His daughter married Adela Cox's son Edward Wirt Cox and their children were Earl Blake and Edna L. Cox. In this manner both A. T. F. Fuller and his son E. W. Fuller were E. B. Cox's great-grandfathers.

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Scope and Content

Receipt book, 1759-1771, New York, presumed to be John Anderson's; diary of Nathaniel P. Millard, 1856-1859, Louisiana sawmill operator; letters of E.W. Fuller, 1863, while in Union prisoner of war camps; Fuller's portrait; donor file; and Flora's Dictionary, by Mrs. E.W. Wirt, interleaved with Fuller's letters.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Washington State University Libraries: Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) © 1973

http://www.libraries.wsu.edu/masc/

Terrell Library

P.O. Box 645610

Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA

509-335-6691

mascref@wsu.edu

Restrictions on Access

Restrictions on viewing, originally placed in 1969, have since expired. This collection is open for research use.

Restrictions on Use

Publications rights were retained by Earl B. Cox and Edna L. Cox.

Acquisition Information

Earl B. and Edna L. Cox donated these materials to the WSU Library, 1962-1969.

Alternative Form Available

Digital reproductions of the E.W. Fuller letters written in "Flora's Dictionary" are available, along with transcriptions and commentary, at http://digitalexhibits.libraries.wsu.edu/exhibits/show/ewfuller/intro/florasdict.

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Names and Subjects

Family Name(s)

  • Cox, Earl Blake Family--Archives

Geographic Name(s)

  • United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate

Personal Name(s)

Subject(s) :
  • Fuller, Emelious Wood
  • Wirt, E. W., Mrs.
  • Millard, Nathaniel Pritchard, 1819-1879
  • Fuller, Emelious Wood

Subject(s)

  • Country life -- Louisiana
  • Flower language --Dictionaries
  • Diaries
  • Military

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Detailed Description of Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

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[Anderson, John] Receipt book, New York. 1759-1771  1 volume.

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Millard, Nathaniel Pritchard (1819-1879). Diaries, Louisiana. 1856-1859  4 volumes.

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Fuller, Emelious Wood Letters, as a Union prisoner, to Mary B. Fuller, St. Martinsville, Louisiana. April-July, 1863   7 items ms. on interleaved pages in:

Wirt, Elizabeth Washington Gamble, 1784-1857 .   Flora's dictionary , by Mrs. B. W. Wirt, of Virginia. Baltimore, Fielding Lucas, Jr., c.1827. [221]p., illus., interleaved with blanks. (digital images of the letters available here)

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Miscellaneous, also filed in Flora's dictionary: these include recipes, part of a letter, death notices for N. P. Millard and James F. Fuller, a letter-head, and a portrait of Captain E. W. Fuller. 1879-1900  8 items.

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Donor file, correspondence with Earl Blake Cox.  1960-1970 

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