When Nancy Moss was born in 1853, in Georgia, United States, her father, Lewallen Christenberry Moss, was 34 and her mother, Elizabeth O. Millsaps, was 28. She had at least 2 daughters with Solomon Young. She lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870 and Richland Township, Newton, Arkansas, United States in 1880. She died on 20 April 1882, in Newton, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 29.
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Historical Boundaries 1854: Fannin, Georgia, United States
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
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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