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Lot 58

The following was extracted from Where The Trails Cross - Volume 26:1 Fall of 1995
By Brad L. Bettenhausen

 

Lot Original Plat Map Notations Name and/or Marker Information Other Comments
58  T. {Thomas} Moss

 MOSS

Thomas W. Moss  February 11,1811 - March 11, 1885

Isabella Moss  Died: March 27, 1848 Age: 29y

White marble base only- gray granite stone moved to Tinley park Historical Society. Stone read by Bremen HS.

Per undated map at Midlothian Library {nee Crumlich; 1st wife of TW Moss}

 


 

Headstone relocated to the Tinley Park Historical Society to prevent further vandalism.

 


 

 

 Census Records

Year Surname Given Name(s) County State Page Township or other info Record Type Database ID #
 1860  Moss  Thomas  Cook County  IL  512 Bremen Township Federal Population Schedule IL 1860 Federal Census Index  IL38134934

 

Year Surname Given Name(s) County State Page Township or other info Record Type Database ID #
1870  Moss  Thomas Cook County IL 037 Bremen  Federal Population Schedule  IL 1870 Federal Census Index IL01783828

 


 

The following was extracted from the Encyclopedia of EarlyChicago.com

Moss, Thomas William (Feb. 17, 1811-March 11, 1885) married Isabella Crumlick on April 4, 1835 (d. March 27, 1848); their sixth of seven children, daughter Isabella married [see] Charles Baxter Lane. Following his wife`s death Moss married Sarah McGettigen in 1850, and Anna Turney in 1853, with whom he had seven children; he and his wife Isabella were buried in Bachelors Grove Cemetery with other family members; vandalized, the stones were removed by a Moss descendant in 1988 to Landmark Church, the Tinley Park Historical Society`s museum. [387a]

 

The following was extracted from the Bibliography of EarlyChicago.com

387a      Kapustiak, Margaret Mackle. “Lane Family History”; personal communication with a DeWitt Lane family descendant, 2003.

Source: Schapper, Ferdinand. Southern Cook County Before the Civil War · Early Settlers and Their Families, Vol. II. Chicago, 1917.

 


 

Bremen High School Bicentennial History Project 1976

 

 
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