Record #:

23382

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

In 1935, Mrs. Marie Baker Cox and Mrs. Uran Cox started the Cox Floral Service, Inc. in Mrs. Cox’s home. They moved the business in 1937 to East Fifth Street and moved it again to its current location at 1177 West Fourth Street in 1946. Mrs. Cox, featured in many magazines articles, became sole owner of the business in 1940. She received the Sally Southall Cotton Award in 2003 and at 97 years of age, Mrs. Cox still works in her shop supervising and working on arrangements. Mrs. Cammie Moore and Mrs. J.H. Randolph opened Moore and Randolph Florists in 1922. J.B. Simpson bought the business in 1945 and named it “Simpson’s Florist.” Thomas Graham and Aileen Jefferson purchased Simpson’s Florist in 1948 and renamed it Jefferson’s Florist. The name changed to Jefferson’s Florist and Nursery in 1955. Jefferson’s Florist relocated to Red Banks Road in 1990, and then to the Blount-Harvey building in March 2006.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Feb 20-Mar 5 2008, p4, 8

Subject(s):

Florists--Greenville