Brief Life History of Martha Jane
When Martha Jane Cox was born on 22 November 1856, in Tishomingo, Mississippi, United States, her father, Robert A Cox, was 46 and her mother, Sabra Jane Calvery, was 39. She married William Wallace Cunningham on 20 July 1876, in Comanche, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Comanche, Texas, United States in 1910 and Justice Precinct 1, Limestone, Texas, United States in 1920. She died on 28 March 1922, in Newburg, Comanche, Texas, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Newburg, Comanche, Texas, United States.
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- M. J. Cunningham in household of W. W. Cunningham, "United States Census, 1880"
- W. W. Cunningham in the Texas, U.S., Marriage Index, 1824
- Martha Jane Cunningham, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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1861
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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 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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