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Judge Martin Ichabod Coxe

Date of Birth	02/07/1842
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Martin Ichabod Coxe  1835 - 1912

Judge Coxe was a native of Marietta, Georgia and was born February 7th, 1835.  He came to Florida as a young man and at the breaking out of the War Between the States in 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and was Captain of Company A, First Florida Calvary, serving throughout the four years of the war.  At the close of the war he returned to Florida and engaged in turpentining and lumber operation in Columbia and adjoining counties for some time before moving to Jacksonville, where he resided for some years.

Judge Coxe came to Palatka in 1883 and engaged in the practice of law, and also served as justice of the peace.  In the spring of 1892 he received the Democratic nomination for county judge and was elected, taking office the following January.  He served with dignity and ability in this office for five terms of four years each, and at his death was the nominee of his party for the sixth term, a nomination given him unanimously at the hands of the people.  Such was his popularity throughout the county that none of the other parties put up a candidate against him.

Judge Coxe was a most lovable man.  His humanity was seen in his court sentences.  He had a greater regard for justice than for the technicalities of the law. 

Judge Coxe received a fall last spring while coming down the stairway of the court house, sustaining injuries which compelled his confinement to the house for many weeks.  His hip bone was fractured.  He had had an earlier fall which had also a more or less weakening effect on his nervous system.  His fatal illness no doubt according to his physician, was largely due to these injuries.

Judge Coxe was conscious to the last, though unable to speak.  When the end came he quietly closed his eyes, folded his hands, and went out into the unknown.

Honorable Martin I. Coxe passed peacefully away at his home on Monday, February 8, 1912.

He is survived by his wife, to whom he was united in marriage in 1875, three daughters, Mrs. A. L. Glass of Gainesville, Mrs. A. E. Adamson of Jacksonville, and Miss Rosalon Coxe of Palatka.

The funeral was held from Saint Marks Episcopal Church at 3:00 Tuesday afternoon.  The interment was at West View Cemetery. 

From The Palatka News and Advertiser.

Friday, November 12, 1912

Martin Ichabod Coxe Feb. 7, 1835 – Feb. 8, 1912

Married to Leah Ann Livingstone Coxe

“Muddie” Feb. 7, 1853 – Mar. 14, 1933

Father of Camillus Cotter Coxe

“Mama Glass”  July 7, 1876 – May 19, 1959

Grandfather of Lillian Yetive Glass Stringfellow

April 25, 1903 – Feb. 9, 1997

Relation with Leah Ann Livingston

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Camillus Cotter Coxe

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