Brief Life History of Joseph William
When Joseph William Moss was born on 29 May 1879, in Tazewell, Virginia, United States, his father, Joseph Stafford Moss, was 42 and his mother, Mary Letitia Vail, was 32. He married Olletta Harman on 20 January 1904, in Tazewell, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Clear Fork District, Tazewell, Virginia, United States in 1880 and Tazewell, Tazewell, Virginia, United States for about 10 years. He died on 7 July 1911, at the age of 32, and was buried in Maplewood Cemetery, Tazewell, Virginia, United States.
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- Joseph W Moss, "United States Census, 1910"
- Joseph W. Moss, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- Joseph W. Moss, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, County Marriage Registers, 1853-1935"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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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