Brief Life History of Susanna
When Susanna Moses was born on 16 February 1824, in St. Lawrence, New York, United States, her father, William Moses, was 46 and her mother, Ruth Stoddard, was 37. She married Daniel Coon Davis Sr on 4 March 1844, in Montrose, Lee, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 30 May 1895, in Bloomington, Muscatine, Iowa, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Bloomington, Muscatine, Iowa, United States.
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- Susanna Louise Moses in household of John Rice Nisley, "United States Census, 1880"
- Susanna Louise Moses, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- The Mormon Battalion: US Army of the West (1846-1848)
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1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
1836
Historical Boundaries: 1836: Des Moines, Wisconsin Territory, United States 1836: Muscatine, Wisconsin Territory, United States 1838: Muscatine, Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Muscatine, Iowa, United States Historical Names: 1836: Bloomington 1849: Muscatine
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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Susan Moses Davis
MILITARY SERVICE: Laundress, Company E. 16 July 1846, council Bluffs, Iowa Territory (age 19) BIRTH: 16 February 1827, Hopkintown, St. Lawrence, New York. Daughter of William Moses and Ruth Stodda …
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