Margaret Moses

Brief Life History of Margaret

When Margaret Moses was born on 27 September 1806, in St. Clair Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Samuel Moses, was 29 and her mother, Catherine Shaffer, was 25. She married Daniel Garn on 2 December 1824, in St. Clair Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1848 and lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. She died on 16 September 1846, in Echo Canyon, Summit, Utah, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Union, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Daniel Garn
1802–1872
Margaret Moses
1806–1846
Marriage: 2 December 1824
John Garn
1825–1826
Samuel Garn
1827–1916
David Garn
1829–1871
Mary Ann Garn
1831–1904
Daniel Garn
1834–1920
Emma Garn
1836–1882
Evalina Garn
1839–1857
Joseph Garn
1843–1844
Sarah Marinda Garn
1846–1918

Sources (34)

  • Nauvoo Stake Ward Census, 1842: Margaret Moses
  • U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900: Margaret Moses
  • Margaret Moses Garn, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital

Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution. 

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

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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BIOGRAPHY OF EMMA GARN ENSIGN

            Emma Garn was born 28 October 1836 in Jefferson Township, Richland, Ohio to Daniel and Margaret Moses Garn.  She was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 1 Janu …

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