Brief Life History of Jane
When Jane Moss was born on 28 June 1829, in Sugar Fork Township, Macon, North Carolina, United States, her father, William Henry Moss, was 49 and her mother, Elizabeth Hooper, was 43. She married David Leander Peek on 26 October 1850, in Macon, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in North Carolina, United States in 1870 and Broadbay Township, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States in 1880. She died on 19 March 1924, in Macon, Warren, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Sugar Fork Township, Macon, North Carolina, United States.
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- Jane Peck in household of Jack Peck, "United States Census, 1920"
- Jane Moss, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Jane Peek, "North Carolina Deaths, 1906-1930"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1830 · Trail of Tears
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
1862 · Battle of Roanoke Island
On February 7, 1862, General Burnside's expedition started with the Battle of Roanoke Island. The battle was mostly fought by the Union and Confederate Navy's. This was a Union victory.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English mos ‘moss, bog’ (Old English mos), for someone who lived at a boggy place, or a habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as Moss (Yorkshire), Mose in Quatford (Shropshire), and Moze (Essex).
English: variant of Moyse .
Irish (Ulster): adoption of the English name 1 by translation for Ó Maolmóna or Ó Maolmhóna ‘descendant of Maolmóna’, a personal name based on maol ‘servant, tonsured one, i.e. devotee’ + a second element assumed to be móin (genitive móna) ‘moorland, peat bog’, in local English ‘moss’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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