Ruth Cox

Brief Life History of Ruth

When Ruth Cox was born in 1892, in Missouri, United States, her father, Lewis Franklin Cox, was 29 and her mother, Nancy Jane Bell, was 34.

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Family Time Line

Lewis Franklin Cox
1863–
Nancy Jane Bell
1859–
Ora Emily Cox
1887–
Ruth Cox
1892–
Erl Cox
1895–

Sources (1)

  • Ruth Cox in household of Lewis Cox, "United States Census, 1900"

World Events (3)

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

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.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

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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