When Lillie Dee Fox was born on 2 August 1914, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Jefferson Davis Fox, was 25 and her mother, Myrtle Lee Flatt, was 29. She married Marvin S Willett on 11 September 1936. She lived in Jackson Township, Montgomery, Ohio, United States in 1950 and Eaton, Preble, Ohio, United States in 2002. She died on 28 August 2002, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in New Lebanon, Jackson Township, Montgomery, Ohio, United States.
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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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