Brief Life History of George Wesley
When George Wesley Fox was born on 8 November 1878, in Hickory, Catawba, North Carolina, United States, his father, Jeremiah M Fox, was 31 and his mother, Nancy Adaline Johnson, was 27. He had at least 3 sons and 3 daughters with Sarah Louetta Eckard. He lived in Wittenberg Township, Alexander, North Carolina, United States in 1880 and Hickory Township, Catawba, North Carolina, United States for about 40 years. He died on 5 February 1968, in Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Hickory, Catawba, North Carolina, United States.
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- George Fox, "United States Census, 1930"
- George Fox, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- George Wesley Fox, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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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.
1897 · First Bill for Women Suffrage
In 1897, Senator J.L. Hyatt introduced the woman suffrage bill in North Carolina. The bill did not make it past the committee.
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
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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