Zona Ruth Moore

4 April 1926–19 April 1978 (Age 52)
Cherryville, Gaston, North Carolina, United States

The Life Summary of Zona Ruth

When Zona Ruth Moore was born on 4 April 1926, in Cherryville, Gaston, North Carolina, United States, her father, Joseph Darlington Moore, was 49 and her mother, Ollie Hester Barnes, was 30. She died on 19 April 1978, in Gastonia, Gaston, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Gastonia, Gaston, North Carolina, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Darlington Moore
1876–1934
Ollie Hester Barnes
1895–1976
Joseph Wesley Moore
1920–1982
Hellen M Moore
1921–1921
Marian H. Moore
1921–1921
Ralph Furman Moore
1925–2011
Zona Ruth Moore
1926–1978
Frank J Moore
1928–

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World Events (8)

1927
Age 1
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1929
Age 3
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1941
Age 15
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

English: from Middle English more ‘moor, marsh, fen’ (Old English mōr), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in such a place, or a habitational name from any of various places called with this word, as for example Moore in Cheshire or More in Shropshire.English (of Norman origin): ethnic name from Old French more ‘Moor’, either someone from North Africa or, more often, a nickname for someone thought to resemble a Moor. Compare Morrell and Moreau .English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English personal name More (Old French More, Maur, Latin Maurus), originally denoting either ‘Moor’ or someone with a swarthy complexion (compare Morrell , Morrin , Morris , and sense 2 above). There was a 6th-century Christian saint of this name.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

Possible Related Names

Moor
Morrell
Moores
McMoore
Mur
Murzyn
More
Morrin
Mauro
Moresco
Morey
Morris
Moro
Seymour

Sources (5)

  • Zona Moore, "North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000"
  • Ruth Zona Moore in household of Joseph D Moore, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Zona Ruth Grant, "North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994"

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