Charity Anna Fox

Female22 February 1832–1897

Brief Life History of Charity Anna

When Charity Anna Fox was born on 22 February 1832, in Grantham, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Samuel S. Fox, was 35 and her mother, Dorothy N Bullock, was 26. She married Amasa Samuel Smith in 1856, in Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Minnesota, United States in 1870 and Waverly Township, Martin, Minnesota, United States in 1880. She died in 1897, in Saint James Township, Watonwan, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in St. James, Watonwan, Minnesota, United States.

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Family Time Line

Amasa Samuel Smith
1820–1885
Charity Anna Fox
1832–1897
Marriage: 1856
Viola Smith
1853–
Rev. Amasa Jay Smith
1857–1911
Luella Audentia Smith
1859–1938
Addie Cordelia Smith
1860–1947
Etta May Smith
1866–1930
Ernest Leroy Smith
1868–1938
William Arthur Smith
1870–1948
Avery Charles Smith
1872–
Arthur Herbert “Archie” Smith
1875–1954

Sources (28)

  • Annie C Smith, "Minnesota State Census, 1895"
  • Anna C Fox in entry for W Arthur Smith and Emma James Odell, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
  • Annie Smith in entry for Addie C Felker, "Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    1856Illinois, United States

    • Children (9)

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    Siblings (14)

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    World Events (8)

    1833 · First Public Library Founded in Petersborough

    Age 1

    In 1833, the oldest tax-supported public library in the world was established by Reverend Abiel Abbot. 

    1836 · Remember the Alamo

    Age 4

    Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

    1858

    Age 26

    Minnesota is the 32nd state.

    Name Meaning

    English: nickname from a word denoting the animal (Middle English, Old English fox), widely used to denote a sly or cunning individual. It was also used for someone with red hair. In England this surname absorbed some early examples of surnames derived from the ancient Germanic personal names mentioned at Faulks and Foulks .

    Irish: part translation of Gaelic Mac an tSionnaigh ‘son of the fox’ (see Tinney ).

    Irish: also adopted for Ó Catharnaigh, see Kearney .

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

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