Brief Life History of Fidelia
When Fidelia Moses was born on 13 January 1813, in Norfolk, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Jesse Moses, II, was 41 and her mother, Esther or Ester Brown, was 38. She married Joshua Northrop Benedict on 30 November 1843, in Canaan, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in North Canaan, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States in 1860 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 15 February 1910, in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 97, and was buried in Elysian Burial Gardens, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Delia Benedict in household of John Neff, "United States Census, 1870"
- Fidelia Moses Benedict, "Find A Grave Index"
- Fedelia M Benedict, "Utah, Cemetery Abstracts"
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World Events (8)
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.
1829 · Farmington Canal Opened
Farmington Canal spans 2,476 acres, starting from New Haven, Connecticut, and on to Northampton, Massachusetts. The groundbreaking for the canal was in 1825 and opened in 1829.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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