Jerusha Fox

Brief Life History of Jerusha

When Jerusha Fox was born in 1792, in Westfield, Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Jonathan Day Fox, was 26 and her mother, Dorcas Stiles, was 17. She married Martin Cowles on 29 November 1810, in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 5 May 1844, in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.

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Family Time Line

Martin Cowles
1789–1862
Jerusha Fox
1792–1844
Marriage: 29 November 1810
George W. Cowles
1811–1892
Morris D Cowles
1821–
Nancy Cowles
1813–1816
Sarah Ann "Sally" Cowles
1815–1906
Jarvis Whitefield Cowles
1817–1899
Rosetta F. Cowles
1819–1904
Delight B Cowles
1823–1900
Marcus Morton Cowles
1825–1852

Sources (16)

  • Jerusha Fox, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
  • Jerusha Cowles, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
  • Mrs Jerusha, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"

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World Events (8)

1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

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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