When William Trousdale Cox was born on 2 August 1849, in Gibson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Moses Cox, was 47 and his mother, Mary Porter, was 38. He married Bettie Smith on 16 August 1877, in Williamson, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Ada, Pontotoc, Oklahoma, United States in 1920 and Williamson, Texas, United States in 1920. He died on 18 June 1921, in Bartlett, Williamson, Texas, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Bartlett, Williamson, Texas, United States.
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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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