When Francis Marion Moser Jr was born on 31 January 1812, in Catawba, North Carolina, United States, his father, Francis Moser, was 48 and his mother, Elizabeth Miller, was 45. He married Elizabeth Snider about 1837, in Monroe, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Lawrence, Arkansas, United States in 1850 and Monroe, Tennessee, United States in 1860. He died on 30 October 1865, in Lakeside, Monroe, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Saint Paul Cemetery, Vonore, Monroe, Tennessee, United States.
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Historical Boundaries - 1815: Lawrence, Missouri Territory, United States; 1819: Lawrence, Arkansas Territory, United States; 1836: Lawrence, Arkansas, United States
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
South German and Swiss German: topographic name for someone who lived near a peat bog, Middle High German mōs, or a habitational name for someone from a place named with this word. Compare Mosser and Musser .
North German (Möser): metonymic occupational name for a vegetable grower or seller, from an agent noun based on Middle Low German mōs ‘vegetable’.
German (Möser): habitational name from any of several places called Möser, or for someone from any of several places called Möse, Moese, and Mösen.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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