Brief Life History of Effie Maude
When Effie Maude Cox was born on 28 February 1879, in Howard Township, Labette, Kansas, United States, her father, Joshua Cox, was 23 and her mother, Anna Mariah Stringer, was 20. She died on 16 March 1905, in Lawrence, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 26.
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Family Time Line
Sources (5)
- Effie M Cox in household of Joshua Cox, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Effie Maude Cox - Government record: birth-name: Effie Maude Cox
- Effie Maude Cox in the U.S., Index to Quaker Obituary Notices, 1822-2012
Parents and Siblings
1856– Male
1858–1939 Female
Siblings (3)
1879–1905 Female
1886–1910 Male
1887– Female
World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Age 2
1881 · Kansas Prohibits Alcoholic Beverages
Age 2
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
Age 11
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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