Brief Life History of Uriah Henry Washington
When Uriah Henry Washington Fox was born on 27 February 1834, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Bartlett Anderson Fox, was 27 and his mother, Miriam Pane Basham, was 26. He married Sarah Ann Brown on 27 March 1855, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Civil District 3, Marion, Tennessee, United States in 1860 and Civil District 12, Jackson, Tennessee, United States for about 30 years. He died on 29 April 1915, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Jackson, Tennessee, United States.
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- H W Fox, "United States Census, 1860"
- Urirah H.W. Fox, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
- Bier Fox in entry for Centha Ann Whitsom, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
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1835 · The Hermitage is Built
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
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.
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.
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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