When James Henderson Cox was born on 2 February 1819, in Scott, Virginia, United States, his father, James S. Cocke, was 29 and his mother, Mary Carter, was 27. He married Eliza Ann Quillen on 20 February 1845, in Scott, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. He lived in Virginia, United States in 1870 and DeKalb District, Scott, Virginia, United States in 1880. He died on 12 February 1894, in Scott, Virginia, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Henderson-Cox Cemetery, Scott, Virginia, United States.
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The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
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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