Brief Life History of Eleanor
When Eleanor Moss was born on 12 May 1847, in Walsall, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Jackson Moss, was 41 and her mother, Ann McCluskey, was 34. She married Thomas King about 1862, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Bruno City, Elko, Nevada, United States in 1870 and Circleville, Piute, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 10 January 1914, in Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.
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- Emma Wood in household of H E Wood, "United States Census, 1870"
- Eleanor Moss, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
- Elenor Farnes, "BillionGraves Index"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1864
Historical Boundaries: 1864: Beaver, Utah Territory, United States 1865: Piute, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Piute, Utah, United States
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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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