When Eliza Jane Cox was born on 12 November 1850, in Mount Pisgah, Union, Iowa, United States, her father, John Cox, was 40 and her mother, Eliza Margaret Roberts, was 33. She married Richard Mills on 8 May 1865, in Mendon, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 27 January 1866, in Uintah, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 15, and was buried in Uintah, Weber, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1851: Union, Iowa, United States
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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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