Individual Details

Bartlett was living near his parents in household 730 in 1850. He was age 24, Lethy also age 24, William 3, and Amon 1.

His wife was Aletha G. Hale, daughter of Amon Hale & Lockney Brown. He served in the Confederate Army. Over 100 descendants attended his 90th birthday. He died after breaking hip at age 99.

1860, Jackson Co TN Barlett age 34, Aletha 35, William 14, Amen 11, Margret 9, John 7, Joshua 5, Julia 3, and Jane one month.

1861-1865 - Served in Company K, 8th Tennessee Regiment, Civil War.

In 1880 the family was in Fannin Co TX. B. A. Fox age 55, Aletha age 55, Dud age 24, Jane age 19 and John age 9 and b. in TX.

5 Feb 1910
Bartlet A. Fox of Dodd City, Fannin Co TX applied for his confederate pension, 5 Feb 1910. He was 83 years old, born in Jackson Co, TN and had resided in Texas for 41 years. He was not able to engage in any occupation. He served in Tennessee for nearly four years - from the Spring of 1861 until he was discharged at the close of the war. He served in Co K, 8th TN Regiment. Jas. K. Blair & J. A. Kincaid testified to the accuracy of his application. J. W. S. Fox and Joseph Fox also testified. J. W. S. Fox was a younger brother - not old enough to serve, but remembered letters and his brother's service. He stated that Barlett had five living children & a great many grandchildren in 1910. Joseph Fox remembered that Bartlett enlisted and that when he returned four years later he was wearing the uniform of a Confederate soldier.
8 June 1925. In the Pension filed is the Application for Mortuary Warrant made by J. W. Slack. Bartlett A. Fox, pensioner, #17642, of Fannin Co, died on 17 Apr 1925 in Honey Grove, at the home of J. W. Slack, his son-in-law. R. S. Brunnit, Undertaker, of Honey Grove testified he had charge of the body of Barlett A. Fox who died 17 Apr 1925.


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Bartlett Anderson Fox
1825-1925
By Lora B Tindall
Had BARTLETT ANDERSON FOX lived seven more months, he would have reached his one-hundredth birthday. He was born 10 November 1825 at Flynn's Lick,Jackson County, TN, and he died 7 May 1925 at Honey Grove, Fannin County, TX. [NOTE: See Confederate Pension file - he actually died 17 Apr 1925 - perhaps the Newspaper report was dated 7 May.]
A story about his ninety-ninth birthday, along with his picture, was published in the Dallas News, Dallas, TX, paper in 1924. At that time, he was called the oldest resident of Fannin County, Texas.
Bart, the son of William and Jane (Birdwell) Fox, married Aletha G. Hale
around 1846/47. Aletha was the daughter of Amon and Lockney (Brown) Hale, also of Jackson County, TN. Bart and Lethe Fox became the parents of nine children. On the 1860 Jackson County, TN, census the family was listed as Bartlett, 34; Aletha, 35; Amon, 11; William, 10; Margaret, 9; John Dudley, 7; Joshua, 5; Julia, 3 and Jane, one month. Two other children were born later: Aletha Emma in 1663, and a boy who died young.
Bart and his two oldest sons, Amon and William, served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Bart was a private in Company K, 8th Regiment of Tennessee. He enlisted, 13 July 1861, at Gainesboro, TN. His enlistment papers say he was thirty -six years old, five feet eleven inches tall, with dark complexion, blue eyes, and dark hair. He was given a meddical discharge on 28 February 1862 at Poeataly Station, SC. The reason listed for this discharge said, Inflammation Rhermotis. What that was, I am not sure, but it could not have been too serious, as he lived to such a ripe old age. He was granted a Confederate pension, #17642, in Fannin Co., TX, in 1910.
Their second son, William Fox, returned from the war. But their first son, Amon Fox, did not. The family never knew where or when he died; he just never returned home after the war.
During the Civil War Bart Fox was often fighting around his home area in Tennessee. When possible, he would slip in to see his wife and children. Once when he had been gone only a short time, some Yankee soldiers entered their home. They questioned the family about the father's whereabouts, and left after jerking rings from the fingers of Aletha and her girls. Aletha had been so afraid that one of the younger children would tell that their father had just left, but none did.
When Aletha knew where her husband's detachment would be camping, she sent John or Joshua, who were yet very young boys, on horseback with food for their father. Once when Joshua was stopped by a Yankee patrol, he talked himself clear by telling them that his mother was sending food to a neighbor family.
Bartlett and Aletha Fox, along with their children, left their Jackson County, Tennessee, home after the Civil War to begin a new life in Texas.The trip by wagon was long and perilous, as there were no roads or bridges. Rivers were particularly troublesome since they had to be forded.
Bart bought good farmland near Honey Grove for a dollar an acre. He built a home and began farming. The lumber for their home came from Jefferson City, Missouri. After farming for many years, he gave this up and began a horse and buggy peddler's route.
Bart stocked his wagon with staples for the kitchen, sewing notions,dress material, ribbons, pots and pans, etc. Either weekly or biweekly, he would make his rounds selling his wares. Few paid in cash; most bartered with hens or other farm produce. Bart would then take his gains to the town merchant and restock for his next trip. Often he took orders for delivery the next trip. The children of Bart and Aletha Fox married, but remained in Fannin County. William (Billy) Fox, Josh Fox, and Emma Slack did venture across the Red River into Oklahoma in later years. But Billy and Emma returned to Fannin County before they died.
William (Billy) Fox married Mahalia Spelce, 27 December 1869, and they had five children: John, Bee, Aletha, Tommy, and Nan.
Margaret Ann [Maggie] Fox married 3 November 1867, Hiram C. Darwin. The Darwins had ten children: Charles, Mary, William, John, Lena, Elizabeth, Lonnie, Bessie, Jessie, and another whose name is unknown.
John Dudley Fox married Harriet Othello Bowman at Dodd City, TX, 17 July 1881. Their children were Dudley, Van, Florence, Othello, Julia, and Emma.
Joshua Hale Fox married Nancy S. Fitzgerald, 14 February 1878, at old Ft
Inglish, now Bonham, TX. They had seven children: Della, Virgil, Cora, Audrey,
Jay, Joe, and Edith. Joshua married second Frances Sally (Fanny) Goding, 6
September 1906. They had one child, Aletha Lydia Fox.
Julia Fox married Joseph Baldwin in July of 1879. They were parents of Zoe Lottye, Alvin, Luther, Jake, Bart, and Gabriella. This family lived at Windom.
Jane [Jenny] Fox married Augusta (Proctor) Brock. They had one child,
Mary, who died soon after birth. They lived at Dodd City.
Aletha Emma Fox married James Slack in October of 1878. They resided at Dial, near Dodd City. They were parents of three sons, William, Bart, and Oliver as well as identical twin daughters Effie and Ethel.
After the children were all grown and married, the old home burned down.
Bart built back on the same site and lived there many more years.
It is said that Bart was always very neat in his dress. Each day he wore a clean, starched shirt. Even after passing his ninetieth birthday, Bart, a jolly and companionable person, would challenge friends to footraces.
Aletha died about twenty-eight years before Bart. I've often wondered
if all that washing and ironing by hand hastened her death. In his last years, Bart made his home with his daughter, Jenny, and her husband, Proctor
Brock. When Jenny became ill, and could no longer see to her father, Bart moved to the home of his daughter, Emma Slack.
On 17 March 1924, while trying to walk on slippery ice, Bart fell and
sustained a broken hip. He was confined to his bed for thirteen months before his death. Both he and Aletha are buried at Windom, Texas. Their daughter, Julia, and her husband, Joseph Baldwin, are also buried there.
RESEARCH LOG: William Fox Bible records extracted from the TN State Library dated 1830; Jackson County TN 1850 & 1860 census records; Joshua Hale Fox
Family Bible (Lora B. Tindall-1997); Obituary for Bartlett [Bart] Fox; Grave
Stone readings for Bartlett and Aletha Fox; Newspaper article re Bart Fox's
99th Birthday; Fannin Co. Folks and Facts 1977 PP 184 & 338; Bart Fox's Confederate Soldier's Pension # 17642 approved 1910 Fannin Co., TX; United Daughters of the Confederacy, Lora Tindall's Membership papers #1448; Bart's
Confederate War Records, Adjutant General's Office, War Dept. #1619937; Our Town Windom, TX, by Windom Book Club, 1972, p 127-DeJarnett, p 219-Slack, PP 76 & 268-Baldwin, p 278-Fox, p 296-Slack

Birth	10 Nov 1825	Flynn's Lick, Jackson County, Tennessee
Marriage	Ca 1846	Aletha C Hale
Death	17 Apr 1925	Honey Grove, Fannin County, Texas

Spouse

Aletha C Hale (1825 - 1897)

Father	William FOX (1804 - 1875)
Mother	Jane "Jenny" Birdwell (1807 - 1888)
Sibling	Pollie Simpson FOX (1823 - 1904)
Sibling	Elizabeth Ann FOX (1824 - 1826)
Sibling	Sarah Ann FOX (1827 - 1902)
Sibling	Nancy Jane FOX (1829 - 1903)
Sibling	Benjamin Henry FOX (1831 - 1838)
Sibling	William Anderson FOX (1832 - 1897)
Sibling	John W. FOX (1834 - 1852)
Sibling	Alvira Matilda FOX (1836 - 1903)
Sibling	Richard FOX (1838 - 1857)
Sibling	Francis Marion FOX (1840 - 1864)
Sibling	Margaret Kendrick FOX (1842 - 1937)
Sibling	Joseph Dock FOX (1843 - 1915)
Sibling	[Infant] FOX (1845 - 1850)
Sibling	Johnson Winfield Scott FOX (1847 - 1929)
Sibling	Mary Aletha Emily FOX (1849 - 1908)

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