S. [Sabram] Cox

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Title

S. [Sabram] Cox

Section

Lot

Grave

05

First Name

Last Name

Relationship

Assume husband of Elsie T. Cox (Q-50-02)

Birth Date

[03/17] 1823

Birth: Month

Birth: Day

[17]

Birth: Year

Death Date

1897

Death: Year

Gender

Number of Persons on Marker

Composition

Condition

Shape

State

Legibility

Good

Dimension: Height

12 inches

Dimension: Width

15 inches

Source of Information

Information taken from Westwood Printout and grave marker, if available; check the original burial register at city hall for additional data

Comments

This marker resembles a [Footstone], but there is no other marker for him, and his name is not on the [Family stone]; check the original burial register and/or lot book.

Biographical Information

For information on his life as a former slave, see Westwood: A Historical and Interpretive View of Oberlin’s Cemetery, Oberlin, Ohio (Oberlin: Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization, 1997). pp. 25-26. A brief biography in William E. Bigglestone, They Stopped in Oberlin: Black Residents and Visitors of the Nineteenth Century (Scottsdale, AZ: Innovation Group, 1981).

Burial Date from Printout

03/19/1897

Burial: Month

Burial: Day

19

Burial: Year

Lot Owner

Cox, Sabram

Date Transcribed

09/17/1999

Default Latitude

41.28406743

Default Longitude

-82.2332208

Default Zoom Level

20

Collection

Citation

“S. [Sabram] Cox,” Westwood Database, accessed May 5, 2024, https://www.oberlinwestwood.org/omeka/items/show/61686.

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