Brief Life History of Henry J
When Henry J Goss was born on 7 April 1830, in Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Michael Goss, was 30 and his mother, Sarah Snook, was 24. He married Sarah H. Lepley in 1853. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Decatur, Decatur Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States for about 30 years. He died on 21 July 1913, in Decatur Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Samuels Church Cemetery, Decatur, Decatur Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Henry Gass, "United States Census, 1860"
- Henry J Goss, "Find A Grave Index"
- Henry Goss in entry for Maggie Spigelmeyer, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"
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1832 · The Black Hawk War
Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1855
Historical Boundaries: 1855: Snyder, Pennsylvania, United States
Name Meaning
English, German, and French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Gozzo, Gauz (Middle English, Old French Gosse), short forms of compound names based on the element goz (from gaut, an ethnic name meaning ‘Geat’ or ‘Goth’), rarely also on the element gōd ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’. In Middle English Gosse was frequently used as a short form of the double diminutive Goscelin (see Joslin ). Geats (Old English gēatas, Old Scandinavian gautar) were the Scandinavian people formerly occupying modern Götaland in Sweden, their name being closely related to that of the Goths (Old English gotan, Old Scandinavian gotar). Both ethnic names are presumably derived from a Proto-Germanic word meaning ‘to pour’. The relationship between Geats and Goths is controversial and in the name elements the two ethnicities are not always distinguishable. This surname is rare in France, where the common form is Gosse .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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