Oxford

Oxford is located on Lambs Ferry Road close to the Sugar Creek Bridge. According to the 1880 map of Giles County a cotton gin was located there. Sometime after that a school was started. Emma Stewart Cox taught school at Oxford before she was married. A young man attended school during the summer when his crops were caught up. A courtship developed and Parmenus Palmore Cox ended up marrying his teacher. Annie Lou Blassingim taught for a short time at Oxford before she married Okla Homer Newton. She was probably one of the last teachers. My grandparents had a farm down the hill from Oxford and I don’t remember seeing a school there in the mid 1960’s Margaret Cox Bibb remembered several stories of the area.

Note: Rail fences were used throughout the county before barbwire became popular.