Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Goss was born on 17 November 1809, in Mount Ulla, Rowan, North Carolina, United States, his father, George E Goss, was 32 and his mother, Mary Ann Boss, was 31. He married Eleanor Gray on 3 December 1835. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Jackson Township, Washington, Indiana, United States in 1840. He died on 26 December 1865, in Martinsburg, Jackson Township, Washington, Indiana, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Wright Burying Ground, Harrison Township, Harrison, Indiana, United States.
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- Samuel Goss, "United States Census, 1840"
- Samuel Cross, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Samuel Goss, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1818
Historical Boundaries: 1818: Washington, Indiana, United States
1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
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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