Brief Life History of Weldon Hall
When Weldon Hall Moss was born on 29 August 1855, in Virginia, United States, his father, James Franklin Moss, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Rebecca Cole, was 29. He married Nannie J Moore on 1 December 1880, in Rockbridge, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Ballard, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and District 2, Spencer, Kentucky, United States in 1930. He died on 27 January 1931, at the age of 75.
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- Haul Moss, "United States Census, 1880"
- Hall Moss in entry for Cary Moss and Helen Brockman, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- W Hall Moss, "United States Census, 1930"
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1861 · The Battle of Manassas
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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