Harriet C. Moss

Brief Life History of Harriet C.

When Harriet C. Moss was born in 1818, in Pendleton, South Carolina, United States, her father, Frederick Moss, was 48 and her mother, Barbara Barry, was 39. She married George Washington Treadaway on 7 November 1836, in Pickens, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Tippah, Mississippi, United States in 1870 and Beat 3, Union, Mississippi, United States in 1880. She died in 1898, in Union, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 80.

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Family Time Line

George Washington Treadaway
1814–
Harriet C. Moss
1818–1898
Marriage: 7 November 1836
William Treadaway
1837–1880
George W. Treadaway
1839–
John Treadaway
1841–
John Newton Treadaway
1843–
Frederick James Treadaway
1847–
Samuel Treadaway
1849–
Susan Treadway
1851–
Warren Treadaway
1852–1901
Johanna Treadaway
1856–
Benjamin Holland Treadaway
1857–1927
David Treadaway
1859–1889

Sources (5)

  • Hariet Treadaway, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Harriet C Treadaway in household of J Treadaway, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Harriet Treadaway, "United States Census, 1860"

World Events (7)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1822 · Slave Rebellion

"On June 16, 1822, Denmark Vesey a free and self-educated African American leads a slave rebellion called ""the rising."" The interesting thing about this rebellion is that it does not really happen. The only thing the judges have to go on is the testimony of people that witness it."

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

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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