Reed Cox Cemetery
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Reed Cox Cemetery

Bridle Creek, Grayson County, Virginia, USA

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  • Get directions W Main Street (Rt. 58)
    Bridle Creek, Virginia 24348 United States
    Coordinates: 36.61744, -81.26618
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REED COX CEMETERY

Cemetery was under tallest tree on hill 2016

Stone will be put up soon with names of known buried

Destroyed cemetery with unmarked graves in trees above
parking lot of New Gold Hill Baptist Church
Originally had field stones

White man, Benjamin Phipps b ca 1761 was buried there in 1838.
He wished to be buried with slaves he admired and liked.
He was moved 100 years later to Benjamin Phipps family cemetery next to his wife.

Well known African American Pastor Reed Cox was buried here.
He collected money from former slaves to buy a stone for Benjamin Phipps. Stone is lost.
















REED COX CEMETERY

Cemetery was under tallest tree on hill 2016

Stone will be put up soon with names of known buried

Destroyed cemetery with unmarked graves in trees above
parking lot of New Gold Hill Baptist Church
Originally had field stones

White man, Benjamin Phipps b ca 1761 was buried there in 1838.
He wished to be buried with slaves he admired and liked.
He was moved 100 years later to Benjamin Phipps family cemetery next to his wife.

Well known African American Pastor Reed Cox was buried here.
He collected money from former slaves to buy a stone for Benjamin Phipps. Stone is lost.
















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  • Added: 15 Oct 2013
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2516376