Brief Life History of Ada Lou
When Ada Lou Cox was born on 4 August 1878, in Randolph, North Carolina, United States, her father, Talton Lewis Long Cox, was 46 and her mother, Nancy (Nannie) Corrina Walton, was 21. She married Zimri Walter Stout on 25 April 1901, in Randolph, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in New Market Township, Randolph, North Carolina, United States for about 20 years and Randleman, Randolph, North Carolina, United States in 1960. She died on 31 March 1960, in High Point, Guilford, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Guy Nixon Farm Burial, Millboro, Randolph, North Carolina, United States.
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- Ada S Cox in household of Dalton Cox, "United States Census, 1900"
- Ada L Cox, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Ada Cox Stout, "North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1897 · First Bill for Women Suffrage
In 1897, Senator J.L. Hyatt introduced the woman suffrage bill in North Carolina. The bill did not make it past the committee.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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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