Henry Moss

Brief Life History of Henry

When Henry Moss was born on 15 November 1869, in Utah, United States, his father, John Moss, was 49 and his mother, Rebecca Wood, was 43. He married Minnie Mahala Atkinson on 20 December 1893, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in West Bountiful Election Precinct, Davis, Utah, United States in 1900 and Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 25 October 1933, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Bountiful Memorial Park, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Henry Moss
1869–1933
Minnie Mahala Atkinson
1871–1926
Marriage: 20 December 1893
Mahala Moss
1898–1971
Afton Rebecca Moss
1901–1902
James Henry Moss
1904–1978
Mary Moss
1907–2001
John Moss
1911–1911
Alice Moss
1915–1915

Sources (75)

  • Henry Moss, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Henry Moss - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth-name: Henry Moss
  • Henry Moss, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"

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World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1870 · Giving all the right to vote

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

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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HENRY MOSS

HENRY MOSS 1869 - 1933 My grandfather, Henry Moss, was the twelfth child of the marriage of John Moss and Rebecca Wood Moss. Henry Moss was born November 15, 1869, and died October 25, 1933. His own …

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