Gabriel Wood "Gale" "Gabe" Cox

29 September 1846–30 November 1937 (Age 91)
Estatoe, Mitchell, North Carolina, United States

The Life Summary of Gabriel Wood "Gale" "Gabe"

When Gabriel Wood "Gale" "Gabe" Cox was born on 29 September 1846, in Estatoe, Mitchell, North Carolina, United States, his father, Isaac Cox, was 58 and his mother, Rachel Abigail English, was 34. He had at least 2 sons and 2 daughters with Margaret Elizabeth Simmons. He lived in Grassy Creek, Mitchell, North Carolina, United States for about 30 years and Salem Township, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. He died on 30 November 1937, in Lamartine, Salem Township, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Richland, Dean Township, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Gabriel Wood "Gale" "Gabe" Cox
1846–1937
Margaret Elizabeth Simmons
1851–1929
Dorminda Ella Cox
1868–1956
Elliott Elwood Cox
1870–1958
Dom D Cox
1872–1959
Florence Cox
1886–1947

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World Events (8)

1853 · First State Fair
Age 7
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
1863
Age 17
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Age 24
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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.

Possible Related Names

Cocke
Coxe
Cocks
Cooks

Sources (19)

  • Gabriel Coh, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Gabe Cox in entry for Joe Edge and Florence Cox, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
  • Gabiel Cox in entry for Elizabeth Margurit Cox, "North Carolina, Deaths, 1906-1930"

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