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RESEARCHER: Information sent to T.Mason on 3 Oct 2003 by Bradley Canon [poll40@uky.edu]. "Allie was a 1st Lt. with John Hunt Morgan's Confederate raiders. He was captured in Morgan's raid into Indiana and Ohio in July, 1863, and imprisoned at Camp Douglas in Chicago. He escaped and rejoined Morgan's cavalry and rode with him during his March, 1864, raid into Kentucky. He was elected Fayette County Clerk in 1866 and was still serving in 1882."
OBITUARY: In John Mason Sr. file. EXTRACT: In this city on Monday, 24th instant, DUDLEY CRAIG HUNT, son of Allis G. and Mollie Hunt.
Dear little Dudley has breathed out his tender soul; he "lies still and is quiet - he sleeps and is at rest." Permitted by the Supreme Dispenser of events but so short awhile to gladden the hearts and brighten the homes of fond parents and devoted kindred with his sweet, angelic face. his gay and joyous laugh, and a daily display of the budding of his infantine mind, in his, sweet little mimical tricks. Well will be remembered, "The soft, sweet beauty, of that cherub face, radiant as a pearl, With young Intelligence, and infant grace."
And that placid and serene disposition so manifested in health as well as through days of suffering as that scarce ever a cry was heard in his dear little lips. But he has bid adieu to time and terrestrial things, and withdrawn into more inviting regions of undisturbed repose. It was his peculiar privilege not to feel the slightest of those evils which oppresses his living kindred, which often call forth groans from the most manly fortitude, or the most elevated faith. The arrows of calamity, barbed with anguish, are often fixed deep in our choicest comforts. The fiery darts of temptation are always flying fast around our integrity: both these distresses and dangers were alike unknown to him. And should not his mourning parents consider this, and dry up their tears. Why should they lament that their little one has been crowned with victory, before the sword was drawn or the battle begun? Why should they be dissatisfied with that kind precaution, which has housed their pleasant plant, and removed into shelter a tender flower before the thunder reared, before the lightning flew, before the tempest poured its rage. Remember, he is not lost, but "taken away from the evil to come."
"Happy the babe who, privileged by fate
To shorten labor, and a lighter weight,
Receiv'd but yesterday the gift of breath,
Order'd to-morrow to turn to turn to death."
RESEARCHER: Letter from Sally Cox Lee [104064.3442@compuserve.com], 2652 Lake Shore Drive, Oralando, FL 32803 to T.Mason (filed-Jackson); 20-Aug-1996; ; Extract: I am a Cox researcher and have a bit of information about Thornton. My maiden name was Cox and I have done quite a bit of research on my family. Vincent Cox was the Immigrant, arriving in Norhtumberland (now Westmoreland Co) VA in 1649. Thornton M. Cox was the son of Peter Cox and Mary B. Grinstead who married in Montgomery co, KY on 4Apr1819. peter was born in Northumberland, VA and was the son of James Cox and unknown wife.
Lived in Washington, D.C.