When Ella Lilly Woods was born on 18 June 1856, in Pendleton, Kentucky, United States, her father, John H Woods, was 36 and her mother, Mary E Lille, was 28. She married John Wesley Mattox on 24 October 1872. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Poplar Plains, Fleming, Kentucky, United States in 1920 and Fleming, Kentucky, United States in 1930. She died on 23 July 1930, in Sandford, Fleming, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Wallingford, Fleming, Kentucky, United States.
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English: variant of Wood with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: adopted as a translation of Ó Cuill ‘descendant of Coll’ (see Quill ), or in Ulster of Mac Con Coille ‘son of Cú Choille’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’, which has also been mistranslated Cox , as if formed with coileach ‘cock, rooster’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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