Brief Life History of Moody Mosgrove
When Moody Mosgrove Byers was born in July 1877, in Ohio, United States, his father, William N Byers, was 45 and his mother, Mary A. Shank, was 30. He lived in Jefferson Township, Montgomery, Ohio, United States in 1880 and Moorefield Township, Clark, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. He died in 1946, at the age of 69, and was buried in New Moorefield, Clark, Ohio, United States.
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- Moody M Byers, "United States Census, 1910"
- Moody M. Byers, "Find A Grave Index"
- M Moody Byers in household of N William Byers, "United States Census, 1880"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
Scottish (Borders) and English (Cumberland and Durham): topographic name for someone who lived by a cattleshed, Middle English byre, or a habitational name from any of several places called with Old English b̄re ‘cattleshed’, for example Byers Green in County Durham or Byres near Edinburgh.
English: variant of Byer , with either an original plural or a post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: variant of Byas .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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