Show 7 i H r kt I IS S j 5 t. t S S I N 5 5 Z Vc-Z S 1 r j I Ir r S p S fr j tr 1 S 1 II i b kI Sr t. S I nr n I t S v I FOX FOXS V S FOX FAMILY to 1 S S O One Theory Gives French Origin 1 gin to Landed Nime-Landed Landed Proprietors t tors r in E England Tor 01 C Family Has S tat and Scientists Karly arly Settlers in New Now England S 1 Annd Re Rl Virginia y Roster Gives Evi Evidence of or Characteristics s and ail Heraldic lic Charges Noted P Patriotism I I BY DY EJEA un t A f LEXINGTON I I 1 It 11 rather r talc your breath away fI to S. S have It suggested u il that FoX as a sur surname urS ur ur- S name V was H or or nUl may have been first S Val or Vaux and th therefore of Trench S J derivation Some one who was vas the ow owner Ill I of nf val val- I 2 lI became designated n a a. a la lays 11 or doles lales cam such 1 and from Vaux to Foxes Foxs 01 or Fog i Js Is not impossible In Jn mediaeval al records S 1 S. S W we often find the name with the pret pre t 55 fix le le ie le Fox which Fox which helps helpa to prop pro up t A this th theory or of or a French origin Abou t S. S only ony variation of the orthography i Is In colonial records with Its lu S free and atul ra easy spelling spelling- 11 name often appears without even cn the distinction w which the capital capitol letter affords affords roc fox ox ye 2nd Is loi al also alo o of frequent frequentS I S occurrence Names which have p the same root nr are Foxell Foxall Foxa Foxhall FoxIer Foxley Foxlee I and Foxton i Winterslow House Wiltshire I Is one AFRICAN EMPEROR AND A FORTUNE HUNTER i S t. t 1 1 I. I S A 4 r AF kI kISi Si I I Ip p S 9 1 S-S S p fr frt j 1 4 t 1 4 m S i i f tS S J r 4 N S. S 5 t S 1 S S S S At the bottom is a r et nt 5 of or l Jacques I J. J of or f Sahara v yb h h i S i I. I IT about lt to tn lal e an un arm army Above 1 Is n a photo of 0 Countess r u a Pails Parl h j who vho Is endeavoring lIllIg to tet I Kr t a A AlV a lV from lie Iho eccentric emperor his Im- Im js S fortune Jacques IK lt at present wot In lit A America to 10 hire nun men willing wl to tu enS en- en S lt in III bin hh I force ot L j i. i S pent of r th family Hall Dor- Dor i another r landed estate nail anul JV fr t In III hi orn y 1113 1111 t S Oft liO nf ut III Ilp bl hop i ur f the tID i 1 rOl r II IC f g. g und and I C councilor I I of I II JU 1 was a ar t ru l J FOX Fax Sir Ir 1 b in In III inI I 1 W WBK tt with los II In hi hM 1 exile iu nt j 1 il Ih r rN n Ion h he wa va S of or th tb tr i and andS nd S by th IIi king 11 lie founded I I ill UK twin twill xon wore ware I I nh I nry nr the tho lent tinI tin th I first lord yf ui Holland Hullon nJ md anti lAther father of or James ie Vox X he Ii brilliant j I r i to J t I 4 2 jf S r t tl y I j t I statesman II In whose veins pins fow flowed blood till the bluest of the blue for Cor his mother wan daughter of the Duke ulee of Richmond Rich Rich- mond and his great great-great grandmother the th Duchess of Port Portsmouth mouth Stephen son Oll of or Sir ir Stephen became Earl of 1 I c i Os r. r The scientist of oC th the family was Robert Rob Rob- ei ert elt t Ware nl Fox Two l' l Foxes each named 1 Thomas have ha fame fanie an and d name IU as ns founders on ii dera of fain families I I ks k's On One probably came caine over Q in WInthrop fIen fleet in fi In JOCO Ho lIe died in Concord Mass ass ics lC S.-He S. 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In had two Vb wh s. s n. n III His mime annie in is found in th the records us plain fox ox Mr h foxes foxes' land and HI His will vill Is Iii said to show a seal stamped with a n design de ile- ile sign I n. n which may mor have ha been the reproduction reproduction o of a n. coat of arms It Is Impossible impossible im fm- Im- Im possible to decipher It clearly clear s Three of his sons son were living at New Lendon LonI London Lon Len I don about and one son on Isaac who ini m Abigail Osban or nr O Osborn horn I lived lt at ot Marl Horn I the If legend upon th the stone erected el to in the tn memory 1 of Fox Woburn wh where ro he hp was pastor pa tor or for twentythree twenty twenty- till three years He Tic lId died In I 1 vl aged M years orR He lit wan as one nile of oC Harvard's Haf first graduates and b by tradition n a lineal of Fox the or Foxe Fi os us It was spelled Ills His wire wile was Judith afterwards the wife vite of Colonel Tyng and his son Ron was John Fox ol also oin oina a minister of or the tue gospel wl whop o Mermen occasioned by hy tin great earthquake of or October 27 7 1727 77 Is still extant One of his sons Fon was wa Jonathan n Fox who was wasI I the he hl lit little t tie Colonel unit and donl I was an officer r ii ip In the Revolution Daniel o of East Bast provided four Caul eons Rons for Cor th the Continental arm army upon their return home homp li he hp pave gave each 30 acres acre's of bind and to the tI c t one he hp J f his time when he hl was us 19 9 years aN old Among tho those e of the Fox family who were officers In the iho revolution rp may bo lH Jacob Conn ona I Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- tenant Joseph Mass Lieutenant Jer- Jer CPa Pa Captain Nathaniel and Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- tenant Thomas ThomA Va of or Massa- Massa ehu went to war nr with pad and pencil pen in cil II In hand anti and made a 0 1 very star story of Adventures In the Revolution R Coming down to a later Inter time Gu Gustavos Gusta- Gusta taos ta- ta vos os Fox loox of or Massachusetts was WlM a 11 naval nl officer In the tilt Mexican war and was sent on a mission to St St. Pet Petersburg to congratulate Alexander f H. H upon his bis p escape ape from froni n assassination lion The founder of the the- Pennsylvania branch of the Fox family wa was John born horn In Devon De Dc- von 1751 who lio made n a home homp In Germantown German German- town with wife Anna wife Anna Rupert anI rt and six Mix children David Fox had a Q grant 0 of oo acres In In Lancaster count county Virginia about the I middle of tho the seventeenth e century 11 hI r Ills son Ion David V has the title captain Capt captain Capt D o und Hox and married Hannah Rail flail In Gloucester ster county Va we WP find In- In marriage ter of oC FOx Foxes s with the Lewis Lwis lineage lin un- un tage ag descendants J of Colonel Colon 1 Lewis who married mariel d Washington's sister Other families r related It by marriage to the POX Foxes Br are the Byrds Amblers Am Arn- and all all of oC the South Now e l England marriage connections In Include In in- clude the tiui Lp Leslie Rogers Roger SUb SUb- Stones Reynolds an and Jury Characteristics tlc of th the tho Foxes are prudence pru dence lence ability wit wide ell sympathies and their common sense E is iH of the let brand Th They af are arc faithful upright up tip tip- right con conscientious shall w we add add neM- pugnacious n although II h often showing Rho great t elf control Of 01 one it was said that hat 11 he lie displayed more than a boys boy's good pen sense o oIn In correcting Ids his faults fault Overhearing his bis I parents discussing in his stilts faults he hp determined deter mined mine to men nt mend his ways I rh The coat arms Illustrated is that used used hy by th the tho Rev Hev John Fox an early ar settler settlor of Ware Yar Gloucester county Va aIt a It Il Is blazoned ur urgent a n. chevron sable between n three cocks gules guiles on u a chief azure azur a fox ox courant or 01 Crest a lion e nt or 01 supporting sup SliP porting wit with his dexter c I foot a ho book le ol of the tho last I. I 1 e. e last color named named or or This coat-armor coat Is given gl E in Burkes Burke's as belonging belong belong- ing n to lh the Foxes of Bucks fuchs No o motto mono i ia is a aligned hut but mottoes II used mod II by 13 branches 0 of th the family are Faire Sans Dire nail and Video V Et fit The fox Cox of course used In rt reference Ie to lo lothe lh the name nome Is an nn emblem of oC lt It and fa facility fa- fa lilt lilt- of device One ilP One who well wen Ut uses Jo nit nil that he be ma may possess s of oC wit it wisdom an and sagacity m In his own deference The chevron ron denotes 8 protection th the cock herald of the tho dawn awn watchfulness the chief dominion au and authority the iho lion courage Co an and th the lie book hool learning Those Thol who desire to procure family I genealogical Information pedigrees or 01 lineages I should ho I correspond corr with tt the Genc Genealogical l Society of ot Utah I Anthon H II Lund president ent Historians Historian's His His- torian's Salt Snit Lake City |