Zachariah Cox was an organizer and the first pastor of the New Union Baptist Church, Tullos, LA in 1859. He died in the 1870s and is believed to be buried in the old portion of the cemetery (now lost to nature).

He was a large land owner, Baptist preacher, doctor, and slave owner. He lived north of the seven runs on Castor Creek in the edge of Jackson Parish where it touches Caldwell Parish.

He owned and operated a grist mill and cotton gin run by horse power. He also owned a whiskey still; but only manufactured enough for his large family and his slaves. None drank to excess on the Cox farm, but they were allowed a little for stomach's sake and this was carefully dished out by Marse Zachariah. He was reported to have a healthy bunch of slaves and a healthy family. During the smallpox epidemic in the first years of the Civil War, Dr. Cox helped the doctor sent out by the Confederate Government to give the vaccine.

Zachariah and Anna Elizabeth Randall were married29 Nov 1830 in Claiborne Co, MS.

They had the following children:

*William J. Cox (see more info below)

George W. Cox

Thomas S. Cox

Hester Ann Cox (married Benjamin Henry Pendarvis)

Rose Ann Cox

Martha Ann Cox (married James A. Weeks)

John Hampton Cox (married first Elizabeth Rainbolt and married second Emma Walker Sandridge)

Margaret Ann Pauline Cox (married a Fowler)

Mary Ann J. Cox

David Cox

Clarice Ann Cox

Zachariah Cox

From these children there are many descendants in LaSalle Parish, as well as scattered over the state, Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, George, Nevada, and California, as doctors, nurses, lawyers, merchants, politicians, writers, musicians, data processors, administrators, and everything but an Indian chief (althought it is reported that there may be some Indian blood in the ancestry).

Source: History of LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

By LaSalle Parish Genealogical Association, 1989

Article by Leona Miles Stringer, page 235

*William J. Cox, born 1835 MS and died at Camp Moore of measles on 16 Oct 1861; he married Margaret Emeline Baygents (1834-1902). They had two children, Benjamin Franklin Cox (1856-1941) and Elizzie Cox (probably Elizabeth).