Brief Life History of Ona Mae
When Ona Mae Cox was born on 26 June 1887, in Fairmont, Fillmore, Nebraska, United States, her father, Samuel Perry Cox, was 34 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Fry, was 33. She married Jesse L Osborn on 28 August 1905. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Penn Township, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States in 1910 and Union Township, Porter, Indiana, United States in 1920. She died on 16 September 1929, in Starke, Indiana, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Knox, Center Township, Starke, Indiana, United States.
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- Ona Susdorf in household of John Susdorf, "United States Census, 1920"
- Ona M Osborn, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Ona May Cox, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1890 · Woman's Suffrage
An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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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