Brief Life History of Selena Minster
When Selena Minster Cox was born on 9 June 1849, in Westtown, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Caleb Hoopes Cox, was 30 and her mother, Mary H Minster, was 30. She married Lewis Verdries Smedley on 12 December 1872. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Willistown Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years. She died on 21 July 1928, in Upper Darby Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Willistown Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Sources (12)
- Clera Cox in household of Cobeb H Cox, "United States Census, 1850"
- Selina Cox Smedley, "Find a Grave Index"
- Selina Cox in entry for Arthur C Smedley, "Delaware Vital Records, 1650-1974"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
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.
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