When James Lewis Cox was born on 1 February 1851, in Saline, Illinois, United States, his father, William Cox, was 30 and his mother, Mary Cleveland, was 23. He married Mary E Cox on 25 January 1874, in Saline, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Rector Township, Saline, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Eldorado, Saline, Illinois, United States in 1900. He died on 14 January 1931, in Makanda, Jackson, Illinois, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Makanda, Jackson, Illinois, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1858: Saline, Illinois, United States
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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 .
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