>From: "Jon Cox" <jcox6888@prodigy.net> >To: <SCMARLBO-L@rootsweb.com> >Subject: Brownsville/ Cox cemetery >Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 10:26:13 -0600 > > I am looking for a good road map of the Brownsville area that shows screwpin road. The Coxe cemetery is somewhere just >north and east of this road. I haven't been able to find it on any maps on the internet. A description of where the road is would even help. > >Thanks, >Tammy

Hi Tammy, There are two Coxe cemeteries in Brownsville. The Emanuel Coxe Cemetery is off of Screwpin Rd, which appears to be the one you are describing. There are only two markers to be seen there, although I haven't searched thoroughly thru the underbrush. Both of these are for Emanuel, one placed in the 50's or 60's proclaiming the site as his burial place. This is part of his original land grant for Wolftrap Plantation. This site was strip mined in the sixties and seventies, and is now (the cemetery) surrounded on three sides by a huge lake and is very close to a surplus sand pile several stories high.The other marker for Emanuel is a Revolutionary War Veteran marker recently placed. Story is that the mining company dug up a body by mistake. Apparently the cemetery was bigger than they thought. The area they reserved and dug around ended up about 125 feet by 250 feet. To get to this cemetery, go to the intersection of Screwpin Rd and Hwy 38 South within site of Cooper's country store (about seven miles from either Blenheim or I-95), go on Screwpin for about 2.5 miles, you will see Rogers Cemetery/Old Brownsville Church site on your left on a small hill, travel staight ahead across Muddy Creek bridge then turn right on dirt road about half mile down, follow dirt road about third of a mile to sand pile (very obvious! can't miss this land mark), once at sand pile the lake is immediately behind the pile, the cemetery is just behind the pile to the extreme left of lake jutting into the water. There is a road to cemetery, BUT is difficult to get to without four wheel drive. The road to the sand pile is okay when dry, but may be difficult for an average car when wet. Much of the surrounding area is swampy, and doesn't drain very well. The other Coxe cemetery is nearby. Travel back to Hwy 38 South, cross over Hwy 38 South from Screwpin, which now becomes Gray Rd. Travel thru stop sign about 150 yards ahead (old hwy 38) straight ahead on Gray Rd., from stop sign travel about 1.5 miles, after a long straight stretch of road you will start a long, fairly tight curve to the left, halfway thru turn you will cross a small creek, just as you leave the creek and the road starts to straighten (approaching an intersection ahead), the cemetery is to your left in the woods at the back of a field, approx. 100 yards or more from the paved road. You can see some of the markers during winter monthes. Hope this helps, Jeff Dudley At 11:36 AM 1/30/02 -0500, you wrote: > >>From: "Jon Cox" <jcox6888@prodigy.net> >>To: <SCMARLBO-L@rootsweb.com> >>Subject: Brownsville/ Cox cemetery >>Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 10:26:13 -0600 >> >> I am looking for a good road map of the Brownsville area that shows screwpin road. The Coxe cemetery is somewhere just >>north and east of this road. I haven't been able to find it on any maps on the internet. A description of where the road is would even help. >> >>Thanks, >>Tammy > >