When George Byron Cox was born on 17 November 1849, in Silver Creek Township, Mills, Iowa, United States, his father, Frederick Walter Cox, was 37 and his mother, Jemima Losee, was 26. He married Susan Lucretia Henrie on 8 January 1872, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He registered for military service in 1866. He died on 14 June 1934, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Manti Cemetery, Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sanpete, Utah, United States
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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.
Possible Related NamesCOX, GEORGE BYRON, farmer of Manti, is a son of Frederick W. and Jemima (Losee) Cox, born in Pottawatamie county, la., November 17, 1849. In 1852 the family came in an ox train across the plains and l …
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