Jerusha L Fox

Brief Life History of Jerusha L

Jerusha L Fox was born on 4 March 1852, in Eaton, Michigan, United States. She married Rollo Alonzo Sanders on 4 July 1882, in Nashville, Castleton Township, Barry, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Vermontville, Vermontville Township, Eaton, Michigan, United States in 1900 and Kalamo, Kalamo Township, Eaton, Michigan, United States in 1910. She died on 14 September 1917, at the age of 65, and was buried in Kalamo Township, Eaton, Michigan, United States.

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Family Time Line

Rollo Alonzo Sanders
1852–1936
Jerusha L Fox
1852–1917
Marriage: 4 July 1882
Jesse H Sanders
1883–1922
Ethel Eugenia Sanders
1886–
Ford Alonzo Sanders
1890–1948
Clyde S Sanders
1897–1939

Sources (31)

  • Jerusha Fox, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Jersua Fox, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
  • Jerusha L Fox Sanders, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1854 · Creation of the Republican Party

A debate continues over the location of the creation of the Republican Party. Some sources claim the party was formed in Ripon, Wisconsin, on February 28, 1854. Others claim the first meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, 1854, where the Republican Party was officially organized. Over 1,000 people were present and candidates were selected for the party, thus making it the first Republican convention.

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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