When Charles Mosby was born in 1837, in Arkansas, United States, his father, Joseph Hobson Mosby, was 30 and his mother, Maria L. McLean, was 23. He married Virginia Cantrell about 1870, in Shelby, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Shelby, Tennessee, United States in 1920.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from Moresby in Cumbria, named from the Old French personal name Maurice, Moris + Old Norse bȳ ‘farmstead, village’.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southern Norway, from Old Norse mós (genitive case of mór ‘sandy plain’) + býr ‘farm’.
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