When William Trousdale Cox was born on 2 August 1849, in Gibson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Moses "The Hatter" Cox, was 47 and his mother, Mary Porter, was 38. He married Elizabeth "Bettie" Smith Cox 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 Gardner Family Cemetery, Bartlett, Williamson, Texas, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Gardner Family Cemetery, Bartlett, Williamson, Texas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1861: 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 .
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