When Calvin Silcox or Cox was born in February 1837, in Rhea, Tennessee, United States, his father, William Wyatt Silcox, was 24 and his mother, Serena Ann Likins, was 20. He married Sarah Cox about 1856, in Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Jackson, Tennessee, United States in 1850 and Hardyville, Hart, Kentucky, United States in 1880. He died on 15 April 1911, in Phosphate, Sumner, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Gallatin, Sumner, Tennessee, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
English: variant of Silcock, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, from the Middle English personal name Silcoc, a diminutive of Sil (see Sill ), a pet form either of Silvester or the much rarer Silvein (see Selwyn ).
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