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the age of nine the family removed to Fairlee, 

 Vermont, and four years later went from there 

 to Holderness, which was her home until the 

 time of her death. Her father was an officer 

 in the Revolutionary War, and lived to the 

 age of eighty-six. In her twenty-second year 

 Hannah married Robert Cox ; her husband died 

 in 1822, leaving seven children. Mrs. Cox was 

 of Welsh descent, and in her early life was a 

 slender, delicate child. She attributed her 

 length of days to a perfect control of her nerv- 

 ous system, joined with regular habits and 

 active labor. After she had reached a century 

 she proudly recalled the fact that, at the age 

 of tive, she had knitted socks for Revolu- 

 tionary soldiers. Up to ninety-seven Mrs. Cox 

 was unremittingly industrious. Near the time 

 of her death her senses, with the exception of 

 impaired hearing, were in good preservation. 

 She walked without a cane, and read small 

 print without glasses. Her exact age was one 

 hundred and five years, two months, and four 

 days, having been born nine days before the 

 Declaration of Independence by the American 

 colonies. 



CTJTHBERT, JOHN A., was born at Savannah, 

 Georgia, June 3, 1788 ; died near Mobile, Ala- 

 bama, September 22, 1881. His father was a 

 colonel in the army of the Revolution. Mr. 

 Cuthbert entered the freshman class at Prince- 

 ton College at the age of twelve, and gradu- 

 ated at the age of seventeen, receiving the de- 

 gree of B. A. In 1808 the degree of A. M. 

 was conferred on him by the same college, and 

 in 1809 he became a law-student in New York. 

 In 1810 he was elected to the Legislature of 

 Georgia, from Liberty County, which he con- 

 tinued to represent for years, either in the 

 Senate or in the House. During the War of 

 1812 he commanded a volunteer company, to 

 protect the coast of Liberty County. In 1818 

 Georgia elected her representatives in Con- 

 gress on one general ticket, and Cuthbert was 

 thus chosen. At that time the Missouri ques- 

 tion occupied the attention of Congress, and 

 Judge Cuthbert took an active and zealous 

 part in maintaining the Southern side of it. 

 His warmest friends at that time were William 

 Lowndes ; Galliard, President of the Senate ; 

 Bayard, Calhoun, Randolph, Clay, Decatur, 

 and Rogers. In 1831 Judge Cuthbert became 

 editor and subsequently proprietor of " The 

 Federal Union," an influential paper pub- 

 lished at Milled geville, Georgia, and in 1837 

 he removed to Mobile to practice his profes- 

 sion. In 1840 he was elected by the Legislat- 

 ure of Alabama Judge of the County Court 

 of Mobile, and in 1852 he was appointed by 

 the Governor Judge of the Circuit Court of 

 the same county. 



DAVIDSON, GEORGE S., died March 14, 1881, 

 at Estillville, Scott County, Virginia, aged 

 sixty-four years. To Captain Davidson be- 

 longs the fame of having fired the first Con- 

 federate gun at the first battle of Manassas, in 

 1861. At that time he was first-lieutenant of 



Latham's battery, and was distinguished for his 

 bravery on the field. He subsequently organ- 

 ized and commanded Davidson's battery. For 

 years after the war he lived in very moderate cir- 

 cumstances, but with his good character, soldier- 

 ly and dignified bearing, and military record, 

 he continued to be regarded with the peculiar 

 interest which attached to the man who had 

 fired the first cannon-shot in the first great 

 battle between the North and the South. 



DIMAN, J. LEWIS, born in Bristol, Rhode 

 Island, May 1, 1831 ; died in Providence, 

 Rhode Island, February 3, 1881. Mr. Diman 

 entered Brown University at the age of six- 

 teen. Graduating with honor in 1851, he trav- 

 eled in Europe, studying several years at the 

 Universities of Halle, Heidelberg, and Berlin. 

 Returning to America, he graduated in 1856 at 

 the Theological Seminary in Andover, Massa- 

 chusetts, and settled as pastor of the First 

 Congregational Church in Fall River. In 1860 

 he became pastor of the Harvard Church in 

 Brookline, 'Massachusetts. In 1864 he was 

 appointed Professor of History and Political 

 Economy in Brown University. In 1870 he 

 received the degree of D. D. In 1873 he was 

 elected a corresponding member of the Massa- 

 chusetts Historical Society. Dr. Diman was 

 frequently called upon to deliver sermons, ad- 

 dresses, etc., many of which have been pub- 

 lished. As a speaker he was always heard 

 with interest; he held a high rank among 

 scholars, and, as a man, he was greatly 

 esteemed. He contributed articles to the 

 " North American Review," the " Providence 

 Journal," and other leading publications, ed- 

 ited "John Cotton's Answer to Roger Will- 

 iams " in the "Publications of the Narragansett 

 Club," and also " George Fox Digg'd out of bis 

 Burrowes," in the same series. 



DIXON, NATHAN 'F., died April 11, 1881, 

 at Westerly, Rhode Island. He was born 

 in Westerly, May 1, 1812, and graduated at 

 Brown University in 1833. He attended the 

 law-schools at New Haven and Cambridge, 

 and was engaged in the practice of his profes- 

 sion, both in Connecticut and Rhode Island, 

 from 1840 to 1849. He was elected a Repre- 

 sentative from Rhode Island to the Thirty-first 

 Congress, and was one of the Governor's Coun- 

 cil appointed by the General Assembly during 

 the Dorr troubles of 1842. In 1844 he was a 

 presidential elector, and in 1851 was elected as 

 a Whig to the General Assembly of his State, 

 where, with the exception of two years, be 

 held office until 1859. In 1868 he went to the 

 Thirty-eighth Congress as a Republican, and 

 served as a member of the Committee on Com- 

 merce. He was a member of the Thirty-ninth, 

 Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses, and de- 

 clined re-election in 1870. He, however, re- 

 sumed his service in the General Assembly, 

 being elected successively from 1872 to 1877. 



DUPUT, ELIZA, died January, 1881, at New 

 Orleans. She was descended from prominent 

 Virginia families, and was in her youth a 



