So in recent weeks, there have been a few comments on some of my Mosley research (most recently on a blog post showing marriage license index cards for a few families that I’m researching). One of the comments suggested that I had the incorrect death date for Richard Washington Mosley (b. 22 Feb 1834 in Pennsylvania). The comment noted that his obituary puts his death in February 1918, and suggests that the 1942 death date was actually for his grandson, who was also known as Richard Washington Mosley although he was born as Richard Washington Graham. My curiosity was sparked, and it seemed an interesting little quest to find out more while I waited for my current work project to upload. Richard wasn’t a direct ancestor that I was researching, but part of the FAN (Friends, Associates and Neighbors) club of a direct ancestor. So here is a little bit of what I found this afternoon…
More Mosleys but in Philly…
For the longest time, I’ve had George H. Mosley (b. 1799, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; d. 12 Feb 1872, Troy, Doniphan, Kansas), his wife Letitia Parsons (b. 28 Feb 1802, Philadelphia; d. 8 July 1850, Philadelphia) as the end of the Mosley line in my database. I haven’t gone farther back yet (maybe there’ll be something once more of the 1812 pension files are online), but I found out a little bit more about them this week.
Mosley matches in Colorado
I’ve been waiting for the 1940 U.S. census indexing to finish Colorado this week. The progress map shows that the state is fully indexed, but the index isn’t quite available to search yet on FamilySearch. So today I took a quick look at the other record sets available for Colorado and found some new information in our lines…
Wordless Wednesday - Sigma Nu 1910-11
