David S. Cox

Deputy Sheriff David S. Cox, a 40-year-old white man serving with the Hughes County Sheriff’s Office, spent the last day of his life working a routine complaint in the small Oklahoma town of Holdenville. Born David Samuel Cox in Indiana in March 1867, he had come to rest in this new state at a time when Oklahoma was still young and rough-edged, a place where lawmen were expected to keep order in a landscape that was only beginning to settle. By the winter of 1908 he was an established local de ...

Deputy Sheriff David S. Cox