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association.
He was married in June, 1892, to
Miss Anna Dargan, of
Greenville, S. C., and they have one son, William F., Jr., born August 5, 1895.
Judge Cox is one of the leading business men of
Anderson, and is held in high esteem.
Captain E. A. Crawford, of
Yorkville, a veteran of the South Carolina volunteers, was born in
Chester county, S. C., in 1831.
His father,
James D., was a farmer and native of
South Carolina, as was the latter's father, Edward; and his mother was Mary D., daughter of
Archibald Gill, of
Chester county.
He was reared in
Chester county, was married in 1858 to
Henrietta E. Lindsay, and in 1859 removed to
York county, and engaged in farming.
In December, 1861, he rendered his first military service to the
State in organizing a company for State service, of which he was elected orderly sergeant.
At the reorganization of this command, and its muster into the
Confederate States service, he was elected captain, and the company was assigned to the Seventeenth South Carolina regiment, commanded by
Col. J. H. Means, and after his death by
Col. F. W. McMaster.
After some service on the coast he went into
Virginia with his regiment and participated in the battles of
Malvern Hill,
Second Manassas,
South Mountain and
Sharpsburg.
Thence in the summer of 1863 the regiment was transferred to
Mississippi, as reenforce-ments to
Gen. J. E. Johnston, and he took part in the second
battle of Jackson.
He returned to
Petersburg in the fall of 1863, and then went to
North Carolina and fought at
Kinston and
Goldsboro.
Again in
Virginia, he was in the
battle of the Crater, his company being among the heroes of that terrible fight.
He remained many months on duty in the
Petersburg trenches, and was in the battles of
Five Forks and those on the retreat, and was surrendered at
Appomattox.
He has devoted himself to agriculture since then and is now one of the leading planters of his county, prosperous and happy.
In 1887 he was elected sheriff of the county and he served eight years with much credit.
He was one of the organizers of the local camp of United Confederate Veterans.
Not long after the war, in 1867, his wife died, leaving children, of whom two are now living, and in 1888 he married
Mary Scroggins, by whom he has one daughter.
