Brief Life History of James Monroe
When James Monroe Fox was born in 1850, in Choctaw, Mississippi, United States, his father, Thomas J Fox, was 30 and his mother, Julia A. Dick, was 15. He married Mary L. Green on 10 October 1872, in Jefferson, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Blissville Township, Jefferson, Illinois, United States for about 40 years. He died on 11 October 1929, in Jefferson, Illinois, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Taylor Cemetery, Blissville Township, Jefferson, Illinois, United States.
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- James M Fox, "United States Census, 1920"
- James M. Fox, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- James M. Fox, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1861
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
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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