Edwin Marion Cox

Brief Life History of Edwin Marion

When Edwin Marion Cox was born on 2 August 1848, in Silver Creek Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, Frederick Walter Cox, was 36 and his mother, Emeline Sally Whiting, was 31. He married Jane McEwan Reid on 3 January 1870, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1860. He registered for military service in 1867. He died on 29 March 1932, in Orangeville, Emery, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Orangeville Cemetery, Orangeville, Emery, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Edwin Marion Cox
1848–1932
Jane McEwan Reid
1851–1936
Marriage: 3 January 1870
Jean Emeline Cox
1870–1944
Edwin Reid Cox II
1872–1951
John Henry Cox
1874–1944
William Frederick Cox
1876–1930
Robert Raymond Cox
1879–1946
Rosaline Cox
1881–1940
Eliza Reid Cox
1883–1965
Frances Cox
1886–1976
Lyman McEwan Cox
1889–1893
Frank Cox
1892–1953
Jesse Archer Cox
1895–1973

Sources (97)

  • Edwin M Cox, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Birth Edwin Marion Cox, 2 Aug 1848, Silver Creek Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
  • Indiana, U.S., Marriages, 1810-2001

World Events (8)

1849

Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, Utah Territory, United States 1851: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sanpete, Utah, United States

1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines

The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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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