When Robert Dennis Cox was born on 13 May 1940, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Verne Thomas Cox, was 24 and his mother, Juanita Amanda Spencer, was 21. He died on 13 October 1943, at the age of 3, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
The Defense Depot Ogden Utah was one of several facilities located around the nation that produced and maintain equiptment needed for the Armed Forces. During World War II, it was also used to house prisoners of war from both Germany and Italy. It has since been moved to Hill Airforce Base, south of Ogden, and the land has been mostly been made into Ogden's Business Depot.
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
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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