Brief Life History of Richard Samuel
When Richard Samuel Fox was born on 26 May 1855, in Curryville, Pike, Missouri, United States, his father, Richard Pickering Fox, was 35 and his mother, Susan Humphrey Jones, was 28. He married Marie Beagles on 28 January 1879. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in New Harmony, Pike, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Pennsylvania, United States in 1943. He died on 10 April 1943, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Mount Washington Cemetery, Independence, Jackson, Missouri, United States.
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Sources (15)
- Richard Fox, "United States Census, 1920"
- Samuel Fox, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Richard Samuel Fox, "Find A Grave Index"
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1857
Historical Boundaries: 1857: Pike, Missouri, United States of America
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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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