Brief Life History of Melba
When Melba Cox was born on 21 July 1911, in Union, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, William Moroni Cox, was 29 and her mother, Minnie Josephine Burgon, was 32. She married Lyman James Ball, Jr. on 11 April 1930, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She lived in Menan, Jefferson, Idaho, United States in 1930 and Enugu, Nigeria in 2000. She died on 16 June 2000, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Melba Cox in household of William Moroni Cox, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Melba Cox, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
- Milba Cox, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1912 · The Girl Scouts
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
1912 · The Capitol Building
As time passed, smaller buildings became inadequate to house the local leaders and the territory legislator, so a call for a new permanent capitol building became an item of discussion. Several of people requested that Salt Lake City donate 20 acres of land for the construction of a new Capitol building, but plans were put on hold until Utah gained statehood in 1896. After the new state legislature passed the approval for the building of the Capitol, funding was secured and the search for a site was underway. One of the more popular sites considered was located on Fort Douglas property, but it was decided to construct it on the original 20 acres site now known as Capitol Hill. The Capitol has been renovated multiple times since its original construction, to better stabilize the structure to be able to withstand a 7.3 magnitude earthquake and to demonstrate the history of the state. The Capitol was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
1935 · The FBI is Established
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
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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My memories of Melba Cox Geyer
My name is John Burgon. I lived in Chino California and met Melba and Paul Geyer in the late 1980's. I found out that she was my father's cousin (Stanley Burgon) She and Paul lived in Ontario and had …
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