Earl Blake Cox Family Papers

Earl Blake Cox Family Papers, 1759-1863

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Cox, Earl Blake
Title: Earl Blake Cox Family Papers
Dates: 1759-1863 (inclusive)
17591863
Quantity: 0.5 Linear feet of shelf space, (1 Box)
Collection Number: Cage 93 (collection)
Summary: The collection contains: Receipt book, 1759-1771, New York, presumed to be John Anderson's; Diary of Nathaniel P. Milliard, 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 E. W. Wirt, interleaved with Fuller's letters.
Repository: Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Access Restrictions: This collection is open and available for research use. (Restrictions on viewing, originally placed in 1969, have since expired.)
Languages: English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

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, Emelius Woods 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.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The collection contains: Receipt book, 1759-1771, New York, presumed to be John Anderson's; Diary of Nathaniel P. Milliard, 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 E. W. Wirt, interleaved with Fuller's letters.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Alternative Forms Available

The letters of E. W. Fuller written in Flora's Dictionary by Elizabeth Washington Wirt (Baltimore: F. Lucas, Jr., 1837) have been digitized and are available as a digital exhibit.

Restrictions on Use

Preferred Citation

[Item description]

Earl Blake Cox Family Papers, 1759-1863 (Cage 93)

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Acquisition Information

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

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
1	1	[Anderson, John] Receipt book, New York. 1 volume.	1759-1771
1	2	Millard, Nathaniel Pritchard (1819-1879). Diaries, Louisiana. 4 volumes.	1856-1859
1	3	Fuller, Emelious Wood Letters, as a Union prisoner, to Mary B. Fuller, St. Martinsville, Louisiana, on interleaved pages in Flora's Dictionary by Elizabeth Washington Wirt (Baltimore: F. Lucas, Jr., 1837). 7 items.	April-July, 1863
1	4	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. 8 items.	1879-1900
1	5	Donor file, correspondence with Earl Blake Cox.	1960-1970

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