Brief Life History of Winnie Petella
Winnie Petella Moss was born in September 1853, in Warren, North Carolina, United States as the daughter of Howell Richard Moss and Dionitia Tempie Davis. She married Thomas J. Hicks on 17 February 1876, in Warren, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in North Carolina, United States in 1870 and Hawtree Township, Warren, North Carolina, United States for about 40 years. She died on 9 March 1932, in Roanoke Rapids, Halifax, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Warren, North Carolina, United States.
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- W P Moss in household of H R Moss, "United States Census, 1860"
- Minnie Mop, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Winnie P. Hicks, "North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994"
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World Events (8)
1862 · Battle of Roanoke Island
On February 7, 1862, General Burnside's expedition started with the Battle of Roanoke Island. The battle was mostly fought by the Union and Confederate Navy's. This was a Union victory.
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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