Brief Life History of Floyd Rush
When Floyd Rush Cox was born on 9 January 1839, in Grayson, Virginia, United States, his father, Isom Cox, was 26 and his mother, Jane Gincey Phipps, was 20. He died on 7 November 1846, in his hometown, at the age of 7, and was buried in Osborne Fort Cemetery, Bridle Creek, Grayson, Virginia, United States.
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- Floyd Rush Cox, "Find A Grave Index"
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1844 · Lumpkin's Jail
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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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