Rosa Janette Moss

1 August 1876–15 August 1971 (Age 95)
Paisley, Lake, Oregon, United States

The Life of Rosa Janette

When Rosa Janette Moss was born on 1 August 1876, in Paisley, Lake, Oregon, United States, her father, Stephen Pike Moss, was 36 and her mother, Margaret Susan Casteel, was 24. She married Benjamin Franklin Cannon on 25 November 1896, in Lakeview, Lake, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Election Precinct 3 Paisley, Lake, Oregon, United States in 1880. She died on 15 August 1971, in Bend, Deschutes, Oregon, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Ioof Cemetery, Lakeview, Lake, Oregon, United States.

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Family Time Line

Benjamin Franklin Cannon
1872–1934
Rosa Janette Moss
1876–1971
Marriage: 25 November 1896
William Ray Cannon
1897–1963
Floy Cannon
1898–1991
Miss Cannon
1905–1968
Gladys Pauline Cannon
1901–1917
Floye Bernice Cannon
1913–1991
Frank Cannon
1927–1987

Spouse and Children

    Benjamin Franklin Cannon

    Male1872–1934Male

    Rosa Janette Moss

    Female1876–1971Female

MARRIAGE
25 November 1896
Lakeview, Lake, Oregon, United States
children

(6)

    William Ray Cannon

    Male1897–1963Male

    Floy Cannon

    Female1898–1991Female

    Gladys Pauline Cannon

    Female1901–1917Female

    Miss Cannon

    Female1905–1968Female

    Floye Bernice Cannon

    Female1913–1991Female

+1 More Child

Parents and Siblings

    Stephen Pike Moss

    Male1840–1917Male

    Margaret Susan Casteel

    Female1852–1923Female

siblings

(7)

+2 More Children

World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Age 5

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1886

Age 10

Historical Boundaries - 1886: Crook, Oregon, United States; 1917: Deschutes, Oregon, United States
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley

Age 25

President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.

Name Meaning

1 English and Welsh: from the personal name Moss, a Middle English vernacular form of the Biblical name Moses .2 English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived by a peat bog, Middle English, Old English mos, or a habitational name from a place named with this word. (It was not until later that the vocabulary word came to denote the class of plants characteristic of a peat-bog habitat, under the influence of the related Old Norse word mosi.)3 Americanized form of Moses or some other like-sounding Jewish surname.

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

Possible Related Names

Sources (3)

  • Janet R Canner in household of Frank B Canner, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Rose J Moss in household of Stephen P Moss, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Jennet R Cannon in household of Benjamin F Cannon, "United States Census, 1910"

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