Philip Cox, (1740-1807) and wife, Elizabeth, purchased land beside the Dan River, in Caswell County, North Carolina. Their children were Philip, Anney, John, Lucy, Susannah, Rachel, Elizabeth, Lewis, Mary, Reuben, and Gabriel. Each succeeding chapter deals with a direct descendant from Philip Cox, from Reuben Cox, Lewis Cox, Joseph H. Cox to Alexander Cox (1839-1915). Alexander was born in Williamson County, Illinois. He married Elizabeth Sanders in 1856. They moved to Missouri, then to Kansas. He married Amelia Ragains in 1871. Descendants lived mostly in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas.