William Newton Fox

Brief Life History of William Newton

When William Newton Fox was born on 10 December 1869, in Bollinger, Missouri, United States, his father, James Henry Fox, was 33 and his mother, Cynthia Elizabeth Crader, was 25. He married Clara Ellen Stratton on 27 September 1889, in Bollinger, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Lorance Township, Bollinger, Missouri, United States for about 60 years. He died on 3 January 1935, in Bollinger, Missouri, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Marble Hill, Bollinger, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Newton Fox
1869–1935
Clara Ellen Stratton
1870–1948
Marriage: 27 September 1889
James Henry Fox
1890–1891
Early Lee Fox
1891–1967
William Thomas Fox
1894–1984
John Marshall Fox
1897–1959
Daniel Franklin Fox
1900–1971
Mary Elizabeth Fox
1902–1990
Sarah Ellander Fox
1906–1972

Sources (14)

  • Newton Fox, "United States Census, 1930"
  • W N Fox, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
  • William Newton Fox, "Find a Grave Index"

World Events (8)

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.

1870 · Giving all the right to vote

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

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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