Brief Life History of Isaac Wilburn
Isaac Wilburn Cox was born on 8 December 1814, in Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States. He married Frances Manerva Caheley in 1836, in Columbus, Muscogee, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Alabama, United States in 1870 and Pine Flat, Autauga, Alabama, United States in 1880. He died on 6 February 1894, at the age of 79.
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- Isaac Cox, "United States Census, 1830"
- Wilburn Cox in entry for Margaret Emma Cox Golson, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
- Isaac Cox, "United States Census, 1840"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1819
Historical Boundaries: 1819: Jackson, Alabama, United States
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
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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