Nancy Moss

Brief Life History of Nancy

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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Family Time Line

Solomon Young
1847–1896
Nancy Moss
1853–1882
Minnie Rufina Young
1871–1964
Alice Young
1873–1964

Sources (3)

  • Nancy Moss in household of Luallen Moss, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Nancy Yong in household of Solomon Yong, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Nancy Young in household of Lewallen Moss, "United States Census, 1870"

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World Events (8)

1854

Historical Boundaries 1854: Fannin, Georgia, United States

1861

Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

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.

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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