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Clark Cox was  a reporter and editor on weekly and small daily newspapers for over 40 years. He was a senior writer for The Pilot, a thrice-weekly paper in Southern Pines. Cox, a native of Jefferson, N.C., grew up in the North Carolina mountains and was a Morehead scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He won numerous awards in newspaper work and local history. He had written or edited two books of local history, a book of family history, a published short story that was adapted for television, and two plays that were produced by local companies.

Clark Cox lost his struggle with intestinal cancer in March 2004.

Deadly Greed, the true story of the murders of Maceo and Vela McEachern in Hamlet, NC in 1991. Cox filled in the background of Rockingham County and of the principle characters, painting a portrait of this African American family who became financially and socially prominent in a time and place where this was almost unheard of and of the steps that lead to their deaths. He then told the story of the investigation of the crime and trial and eventual fate of the murderer and those surrounding him. Deadly Greed won the Willie Parker Peace Award from the North Carolina Society of Historians.