Myrtle Marie Cox

Brief Life History of Myrtle Marie

When Myrtle Marie Cox was born on 6 December 1908, in Bells, Grayson, Texas, United States, her father, Solomon Cox, was 40 and her mother, Susie Elizabeth Clark Clarkston, was 30. She married Elmer Arnold Mayfield on 13 May 1923, in Meade, South Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Yakima, Yakima, Washington, United States in 1950 and Leavenworth, Chelan, Washington, United States in 1982. She died on 28 October 1998, in Wenatchee, Chelan, Washington, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Leavenworth, Chelan, Washington, United States.

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Family Time Line

Elmer Arnold Mayfield
1889–1962
Myrtle Marie Cox
1908–1998
Marriage: 13 May 1923
Arnold Mayfield JR
1924–2013
Edna Jeanne Mayfield
1926–2018
Juanita Marie Mayfield
1929–1993
John William Mayfield
1935–2017
Joanne Mayfield
1941–1984

Sources (21)

  • Marie M Mayfield, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Myrtle M Mayfield, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
  • Myrtle M Mayfield, "Washington Death Index, 1965-2014"

World Events (8)

1909 · The NAACP is formed

Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.

1909

Historical Boundaries: 1909: Grant, Washington, United States

1932

Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Cocke and Cook , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.

Irish (Ulster): mistranslation of Mac Con Coille (‘son of Cú Choille’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’), as if formed with coileach ‘cock, rooster’.

Dutch and Flemish: genitivized patronymic from the personal name Cock, a vernacular short form of Cornelius .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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