Julian Fox

Brief Life History of Julian

When Julian Fox was born on 26 August 1854, in Sevier, Tennessee, United States, her father, William Fox, was 37 and her mother, Edna Jane Shrader, was 27. She married Decater Lewis on 18 September 1873, in Sevier, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Jefferson, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Civil District 8, Jefferson, Tennessee, United States in 1910. She died on 24 August 1913, at the age of 58, and was buried in Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Jefferson, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Decater Lewis
1852–1907
Julian Fox
1854–1913
Marriage: 18 September 1873
Elizabeth J Lewis
1874–1937
Martha Adaline Lewis
1876–1935
Mattie Lewis
1878–1935
Oliver Meek Lewis
1878–1935
Arthur Garfield Lewis
1884–1969
Thursa Birdie Lewis
1886–1976
Margaret Malita "Lyte" Lewis
1890–1976
Oscar Lewis
1891–
Emma Mae or Amy Lewis
1892–1967
Roscoe Lewis
1897–1938

Sources (16)

  • Julia Ann Fen, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Julia Ann Fox, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • Julia Fox in entry for Emma Mae Reese, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"

World Events (8)

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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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