 His service terminated on July 31, 1917, due to his retirement.Coxe died on April 15, 1923, in Hartford, Connecticut.Coxe was the grandson of Alfred Conkling, who served as a United States Representative from upstate New York and a judge in the Northern District, and nephew of Roscoe Conkling, who was a Congressman and Senator from New York and boss of the state's Republican political machine.