Brief Life History of Ethel L
When Ethel L Moses was born on 3 May 1872, in Potsdam, St. Lawrence, New York, United States, her father, Joel Peck Moses, was 47 and her mother, Wealthy Laura Wheeler, was 27. She married George Oscar Plantz on 10 May 1891, in Parishville, St. Lawrence, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Massena, St. Lawrence, New York, United States for about 20 years and Potsdam, Potsdam, St. Lawrence, New York, United States in 1950. She died on 20 March 1954, in Canton, St. Lawrence, New York, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Potsdam, St. Lawrence, New York, United States.
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- Ethel L Plantz, "United States 1950 Census"
- Ethel L. Moses, "New York, Marriages, 1686-1980"
- Ethel Moses Plantz, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1868–1955 Male
1872–1954 Female
Children (9)
1892–1976 Female
1893–1970 Male
1895–1932 Male
1898–1981 Female
1900–2001 Female
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1844–1918 Female
Siblings (7)
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1869–1921 Male
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
Age 3
1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Name Meaning
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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