Frances Lavina Moon

Brief Life History of Frances Lavina

When Frances Lavina Moon was born on 21 April 1848, in Meriwether, Baldwin, Georgia, United States, her father, William Bird Moon, was 26 and her mother, Rowena Catharine Spratlin, was 19. She married Henry McKenzie Ware on 9 October 1866, in Tallapoosa, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Meriwether, Georgia, United States in 1850 and Tallapoosa, Alabama, United States in 1860. She died on 26 March 1876, at the age of 27, and was buried in Moon Cemetery, Rose Bud, White, Arkansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Henry McKenzie Ware
1845–1924
Frances Lavina Moon
1848–1876
Marriage: 9 October 1866
Mary Sally Willie Ware
1869–1938
Richard Calhoun Ware
1871–1943
Rowena Moon Ware
1874–1956

Sources (15)

  • Francis L Moore in household of William B Moore, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Frances L Moore, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  • Frances Lavinia Moon Ware, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (7)

1851

Historical Boundaries 1851: Conway, Arkansas, United States 1853: White, Arkansas, United States

1861

Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.

1861

Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.

Name Meaning

Irish: variant of Mohan .

English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Moyon in La Manche. Compare Mounce .

Americanized form of German Mohn or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.

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

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