Brief Life History of Dewie Edgar
When Dewie Edgar Fox was born on 24 November 1911, in Tennessee, United States, his father, John Robert Fox, was 28 and his mother, Harriet Jane Schultz, was 20. He married Lillie Marie Littrell on 10 July 1937, in Lawrence, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Civil District 19, Lincoln, Tennessee, United States in 1940 and Lawrence, Tennessee, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1934. He died on 25 June 1977, in Lawrenceburg, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Crossroads Cemetery, Crossroads, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States.
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- Dewey E Fox, "United States 1950 Census"
- Dewey E Or Dewit E Fox, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Dewie Fox, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from a word denoting the animal (Middle English, Old English fox), widely used to denote a sly or cunning individual. It was also used for someone with red hair. In England this surname absorbed some early examples of surnames derived from the ancient Germanic personal names mentioned at Faulks and Foulks .
Irish: part translation of Gaelic Mac an tSionnaigh ‘son of the fox’ (see Tinney ).
Irish: also adopted for Ó Catharnaigh, see Kearney .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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