Brief Life History of Hannah
When Hannah Cox was born on 21 June 1785, in England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Cox, was 44 and her mother, Thamer Davis, was 36. She had at least 5 sons and 3 daughters with George Goldsmith. She lived in Northern Liberties Township, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850. She died in August 1854, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Lawnview Cemetery, Rockledge, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Hannah Goldsmith, "United States Census, 1850"
- Hannah Goldsmith, "Find A Grave Index"
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1804
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
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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