Christiana Simpson

Female31 December 1838–29 November 1934

Brief Life History of Christiana

When Christiana Simpson was born on 31 December 1838, in St. Clair, Illinois, United States, her father, James Simpson, was 29 and her mother, Ann Ivison, was 39. She married Archibald Moore on 11 January 1866, in Shelby, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Shelby, Illinois, United States in 1860. She died on 29 November 1934, in Dry Point Township, Shelby, Illinois, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Mud Run Cemetery, Dry Point Township, Shelby, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Archibald Moore
1837–1873
Christiana Simpson
1838–1934
Marriage: 11 January 1866
James Lincoln Moore
1869–1940
John C. Moore
1870–1939
Charles Truman Moore
1871–1947
Luella Moore
1873–1940

Sources (27)

  • Christiana Simpson in household of James Simpson, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Christiana Moore, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
  • Christianna Simpson, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    11 January 1866Shelby, Illinois, United States
  • Children (4)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (4)

    World Events (8)

    1839 · From Swamp to Beautiful Place

    Age 1

    By 1829 Venus, Illinois had grown sufficiently and in 1832 was one of the contenders for the new county seat. However, the honor was awarded to a nearby city, Carthage. In 1834 the name Venus was changed to Commerce because the settlers felt that the new name better suited their plans. But during late 1839, arriving members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the small town of Commerce and in April 1840 it was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith Jr., who led the Latter-Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape persecution in Missouri. The name Nauvoo is derived from the traditional Hebrew language. It is notable that by 1844 Nauvoo's population had swollen to around 12,000 residents, rivaling the size of Chicago at the time. After the Latter-Day Saints left the population settled down toward 2,000 people.

    1846

    Age 8

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

    1863

    Age 25

    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

    Name Meaning

    Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: patronymic from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Sim(m), Sime (see Sim ) + -son.

    English: occasionally a variant of Sumsion with unrounding of the vowel before the nasal consonant, a dialect feature of southwestern England.

    English: habitational name from any of the three places called Simpson or one called Zemson, all in Devon. The one in Holsworthy parish derives from an uncertain first element + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, while the one in Diptford comes from the Old English personal name Sigewine (genitive Sigewines) + Old English tūn. Both the one in Torbryan and Zempson in Dean Prior probably also have the same origin as the Diptford placename.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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