Brief Life History of John Cox
When John Cox Mayes was born on 25 October 1850, in Grainger, Tennessee, United States, his father, William Henry Mayes, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth Flannigan Cardwell, was 18. He married Elizabeth Ownby on 18 August 1870, in Sevier, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Flat Creek Township, Stone, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Yocum, Carroll, Arkansas, United States in 1920. He died on 2 April 1936, in Carroll, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Blue Eye Cemetery, Stone, Missouri, United States.
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- John Mays in household of William Mays, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: John Cox Mayes - Individual or family possessions: birth: 25 October 1850; Tennessee, United States
- J C Mayes, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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1851
Historical Boundaries: 1851: Stone, Missouri, United States
1861
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: variant of May 1, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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