Mary Elizabeth Moss

Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth

When Mary Elizabeth Moss was born on 14 April 1892, in Arkansas, United States, her father, John Randolph Moss, was 29 and her mother, Mary “Florence” Stotts, was 24. She married Elzie Grady Houston on 26 November 1911, in Poinsett, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She lived in Greenfield, Poinsett, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years and Willis Township, Poinsett, Arkansas, United States in 1930. She died on 31 October 1932, in Arkansas, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Mount Pisgah Cemetery, Jonesboro, Craighead, Arkansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Elzie Grady Houston
1890–1986
Mary Elizabeth Moss
1892–1932
Marriage: 26 November 1911
Alma Nadine Houston
1911–2014
Homer Houston
1913–
Maurice Houston
1913–
Florence J Houston
1915–
Nadine C Houston
1916–2014
Pauline Houston
1918–2008

Sources (8)

  • May Huston in household of Elzie Huston, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Legacy NFS Source: May Moss - Published information: birth-name: May Moss
  • May, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

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.

1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

Name Meaning

English: topographic name from Middle English mos ‘moss, bog’ (Old English mos), for someone who lived at a boggy place, or a habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as Moss (Yorkshire), Mose in Quatford (Shropshire), and Moze (Essex).

English: variant of Moyse .

Irish (Ulster): adoption of the English name 1 by translation for Ó Maolmóna or Ó Maolmhóna ‘descendant of Maolmóna’, a personal name based on maol ‘servant, tonsured one, i.e. devotee’ + a second element assumed to be móin (genitive móna) ‘moorland, peat bog’, in local English ‘moss’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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