Sadie Fox

Female17 June 1886–10 August 1919

Brief Life History of Sadie

When Sadie Fox was born on 17 June 1886, in Nebraska, United States, her father, Samuel H Fox, was 40 and her mother, Sarah Bailey, was 32. She lived in Braceville Township, Grundy, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Auburn, Sangamon, Illinois, United States in 1910. She died on 10 August 1919, in Virden, Macoupin, Illinois, United States, at the age of 33, and was buried in Auburn, Sangamon, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel H Fox
1845–1919
Sarah Bailey
1853–1938
William Henry Fox
1874–1929
Eliza H Fox
1875–
Lida Fox
1875–1928
Zetham Fox
1877–
Laura Fox
1878–1918
Samuel H. Fox
1880–1956
Clara Alice Fox
1882–1952
George Fox
1884–
Sadie Fox
1886–1919
David Harold Fox
1891–1943
Dewayne Fox
1897–1970

Sources (4)

  • Sarah Fox in household of Samuel Fox, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Sadie Fox, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
  • Sarah Fox, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

Age 4

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

1892 · The Chicago Canal

Age 6

The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

Age 10

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

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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