Malinda Susan Cox

After leaving the cemetery, we continued in a southwesterly direction on Louis Free Road, down a hill and across a small creek (East Fork of the Little Barren River), stopping a few hundred yards later on a curve in the road (still in Metcalfe County.) On the left-hand side of the road is the site of an old house completely obscured by trees and underbrush.

Malinda Susan Cox home, 2013

Malinda Susan Cox home, 2013

This is the location of the home where Malinda Susan Cox refused to give up the family horses to soldiers during the Civil War. The house is in extremely poor condition, open to the elements and creatures. The stone chimney on the west side of the house has mostly tumbled to the ground, and the hand-hewn timbers of a log cabin can be seen underneath the gaps in siding and shingles. The property had long been in the family and was most recently owned by Louis Edward Free (died 2003) but has likely been sold to other owners by now. We picked up chimney rocks before we left.

Malinda Susan Cox home, 2013

Road on the site of Malinda Susan Cox home, 2013

Malinda Susan Cox's home at Mosby Ridge, photographed in 1996

House in 1996

Chimney of house in 1996

House at Mosby Ridge in 1996

Porch at house on Mosby Ridge in 1996

Malinda Susan Cox	Edward Hamilton

Malinda Susan Cox's house as it looked in 1981 (photographed on my trip here, when Grandma Clark and Aunt Cecile showed me this location)

Malinda Susan Cox's house near Mosby Ridge, photographed in 1981

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