Name: h97-25752_2 -- Descendants of Isaac Hoss

Updated: 06-16-2020 12:06:00. Owner: Gary Hoss


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Amanda Fadora Hoss: Birth: 11 MAY 1847 in Jonesboro,Washington Co.,TN. Death: 29 DEC 1914 in Jonesboro,TN

  2. Elijah Embree Hoss: Birth: 14 APR 1849 in Jonesboro,TN.. Death: 23 APR 1919 in Muskogee,OK

  3. Hannah Sophia Hoss: Birth: 3 FEB 1851 in Jonesboro,Washington Co.,TN.

  4. Archibald Calvin Hoss: Birth: 11 DEC 1852 in Jonesboro,Washington Co.,TN. Death: 22 DEC 1908 in Jonesboro,TN

  5. Martha E. Hoss: Birth: 24 MAR 1855.

  6. Henry Sevier Hoss: Birth: 20 APR 1857 in Jonesboro,Washington Co.,TN. Death: 23 FEB 1861 in Washington Co.,TN

  7. Minerva Elizabeth Hoss: Birth: 5 DEC 1859 in Washington Co.,TN. Death: 9 JUL 1863

  8. John Isaac Hoss: Birth: 8 MAR 1864. Death: in Clay Co.,AR ?


Sources
1. Title:   Old Jonesboro Cemetery, TN
2. Title:   1880 census Washington Co., TN
Page:   T9-1284 pg.496b
3. Title:   1860 census Washington Co., TN
Page:   M653-1277 pg.136 line 4
4. Title:   1840 census Carter Co., TN
Page:   M704-518 pg.199 line 3

Notes
a. Note:   TN.
 1856 - 1860. (from goodspeed's History of TN.Part 3).
  Henry's brick house built in the Federal style (1859) is now a historic site in Johnson City, TN., and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
  BURIAL: 1885 date of death is from the Jonesboro, TN cemetery.
  From http://www.tngenweb.org/madison/smith/nca85-03.htm
 August 15, 1885
 HENRY HOSS died Jonesboro, Tenn., Aug. 7, 1885; father of Prof. E. E. Hoss, president of Emory and Henry College.
  From http://www.uriel.com/history/embree.htm
 John Fain Anderson (1844-1929) kept records and wrote letters about events in early Washington County, Tennessee. These papers are now in the Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University. The following extract relating to the Embree family is from pages 54-55 of the papers. His account of the Embrees contains various factual errors and is hand-written in a free, uninhibited style. This transcript tries to capture the original as accurately as possible.
  "Henry Hoss, Bishop Hoss' Father, was a Man of ability and worth he had Clerk for years for Eliga Embree and said in my hearing he Eliga Embree was the best disposed Man he ever New and this was Reason he named his son Eliga Embree Hoss. Moses Embree and Esther Embree came her from Little Egg Harbor N.J. an had been there in 1719 Manufacturing Iron. Came her Made Iron near Telford Tenn. Near 1770."
Note:   Henry Hoss was clerk of the county court in Johnson City, Washington CO.,

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