Nettie May Cox

Brief Life History of Nettie May

When Nettie May Cox was born on 22 December 1877, in Mill Township, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States, her father, Salathiel Cox, was 30 and her mother, Mary Margaret Ohler, was 22. She married Alexander Renicker on 17 September 1893, in Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Rural, Clermont, Ohio, United States in 1935 and Goshen Township, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States in 1940. She died on 25 July 1946, in Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in East Avenue Cemetery, New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

Nettie May Cox
1877–1946
Delbert A Renicker
1896–1958
William Raymond Watkins
1906–1985
C Raymond Watkins
1909–1914
Margret Ann Watkins
1913–1983

Sources (28)

  • Nettie Watkins in household of Thomas Watkins, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Nettie M. Cox, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
  • Mrs. Nettie May Rennecker, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"

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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

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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