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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 ...Read More
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David S. Cox
Male
White / Caucasian
Holdenville
OK
1908-01-31
40
David
S. Cox
11/23/2025
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I was reading about the tragic case of Deputy Sheriff David S. Cox from 1908, and one thing that rea... ...Read More
04/21/2024
04/21/2024
I've been doing some digging into the case of Deputy Sheriff David S. Cox, and there's an angle I fi... ...Read More
08/08/2023
08/08/2023
It's deeply upsetting to think about the impact Deputy Sheriff David S. Cox's death had on his famil... ...Read More
01/09/2023
01/09/2023
