When Andrew Jackson Moses was born on 16 August 1858, in Pleasant View, Whitley, Kentucky, United States, his father, Pleasant Moses, was 20 and his mother, Calestine Goins, was 23. He married Alafair Davis on 19 December 1880, in Campbell, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Whitley, Kentucky, United States for about 5 years and Magisterial District 5, Whitley, Kentucky, United States in 1940. He died on 23 November 1946, in Pleasant View, Whitley, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Whitley, Kentucky, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1870: Whitley, Kentucky, United States
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Jewish, Welsh, African American, and African (mainly Nigeria): from the Biblical personal name borne by the Israelite leader who led the Israelites out of Egypt, as related in the Book of Exodus. The Hebrew form of the name is Moshe . It is probably of Egyptian origin, from a short form of an ancient Egyptian personal name such as Rameses or Tutmosis, meaning ‘conceived (by a god)’. However, very early in its history the name acquired a folk etymology, being taken as a derivative of the Hebrew root verb mshh ‘extract or draw (something), e.g. from water’ and was associated with a story of the infant Moses being discovered among the bullrushes by Pharaoh's daughter (Exodus 2: 1-10). As a Welsh surname, it was adopted among Dissenter families in the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, for example Italian Moise , Hungarian Mózes (see Mozes ), Assyrian/Chaldean Moshe , Arabic Musa .
English: variant of Moss , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: variant of Moyses, a Cornish personal name derived from Middle English Moises, a vernacular form of Moses (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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