Brief Life History of Rosa Emeline
When Rosa Emeline Cox was born on 31 December 1855, in Carroll, Virginia, United States, her father, Solomon Cox, was 33 and her mother, Nancy Frances Edwards, was 27. She married Major Christopher Columbus Worrell about 1869, in Carroll, Virginia, United States. She lived in Virginia, United States in 1870 and Pipers Gap, Carroll, Virginia, United States for about 40 years. She died on 9 January 1915, in Carroll, Virginia, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Beamer Cemetery, Fancy Gap, Carroll, Virginia, United States.
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- Emmeline Cox, "United States Census, 1870"
- Emeline Beamer, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records, 1853-1896"
- Emeline Beamer, "Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940"
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1861 · The Battle of Manassas
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
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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