Zella Rose Moss

Brief Life History of Zella Rose

When Zella Rose Moss was born on 19 October 1911, in Victor, Teton, Idaho, United States, her father, William Francis Moss, was 29 and her mother, Janie Graham Barclay McKinlay, was 28. She married Vernon Gregory Christoffersen on 16 December 1931, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Tetonia Election Precinct, Teton, Idaho, United States in 1940. She died on 19 January 1943, in Driggs, Teton, Idaho, United States, at the age of 31, and was buried in Cache Clawson Cemetery, Teton, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Vernon Gregory Christoffersen
1910–1998
Zella Rose Moss
1911–1943
Marriage: 16 December 1931
Verla Gene Christoffersen
1933–2024

Sources (28)

  • Zella Rose Moss Christofferson in household of Vernon Gregory Christofferson, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Zella Rose Moss, "Idaho, Birth Index, 1861-1911"
  • Zella Rose Moss, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"

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1912 · The Girl Scouts

Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.

1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment

The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

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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Life Story of Zella Rose Moss

Zella Rose Moss Born: 10-19-1911 Died: 01-19-1943 Parents: William Francis Moss and Jean (Janie) Graham Barclay Married: Vernon Gregory Christoffersen December 16, 1931 Mother to: Verla G …

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