103 - Fred R. Moss - Iberia, Missouri
N 38° 06.744 W 092° 14.554
15S E 566399 N 4218557
I noticed this headstone and military marker at the Union Cemetery off Hwy 42 in Miller County, Missouri, about 5 miles from Iberia, Missouri.
Waymark Code: WMBKQ4
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 05/30/2011
Views: 3
Fred R Moss
12-18-1903
1-4-2006
Pvt US Army
World War II
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I was unsuccessful in my search for any history or personal information on Mr. Moss. Below is a list of some history that occurred during his lifetime, and would have had an impact on him and his family. Try to image the changes that occurred in the daily of life of Mr. Moss, from his birth in 1903, thru his death in 2006:
****Presidents*******
1901-1909 Theodore Roosevelt
1909-1913 William Howard Taft
1913-1921 Woodrow Wilson
1921-1923 Warren G Harding
1923-1929 Calvin Coolidge
1929-1933 Herbert Hoover
1933-1945 Franklin D Roosevelt
1945-1953 Harry S Truman
1953-1961 Dwight D Eisenhower
1961-1963 John F Kennedy
1963-1969 Lyndon B Johnson
1969-1974 Richard Nixon
1974-1977 Gerald Ford
1977-1981 Jimmy Carter
1981-1989 Ronald Reagan
1989-1993 George H. W. Bush
1993-2001 Bill Clinton
2001-2009 George W. Bush
*********Social/History/Science*************************************
12/18/1903 Birth of Fred M. Moss
1903 Wright Brothers first airplane, first baseball World Series, first box of Crayola Crayons
1904 Jack London writes The Sea Wolf
1905 Einstein proposes Special Theory of Relativity
1907 Indian Territory converts to Oklahoma which becomes a State
1908 GE patents first electric toaster
1912 New Mexico & Arizona become States
1913**** Fred Moss would be in GRADE SCHOOL
1913 Igor Stravinskys ballet The Rite of Spring, Henry Ford develops the first moving assembly line, Sixteenth Amendment (income tax) adopted
1914 WWI begins; Germany invades Belgium
1915 D.W Griffith directs Birth of a Nation
1917 Selective Service Act creates the draft
1917 Russian Revolutions, Communit USSR Formed.
1919 Versailles Peace Treaty & League of Nations
1920 19th Amendment allows women right to vote.
1923 ***** Approximate age Mr. Moss would have entered the Army
1927 Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic non-stop
1929 Stock Market Crashes
1930 World wide Depression Begins
1931 Lawrence invents cyclotron
1933 Roosevelt begins the "New Deal"
1934 Adolf Hitler becomes Fueher of Germany, Fermi creates plutonium
1935 Social Security Act provides retirement insurance.
1937 Dow Chemical develops plastics
1938 ******Approximate period of time Moss would have raised family.
1939 WWII begins; Germany invades Poland
1940 Radar assists with Battle of Britian, Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls
1941 Japan surprise attack of Pearl Harbor
1941 Computers assist Bletchley Park computers to sabotage German Enigma
1944 Normandy landings
1945 USA A-bombs Japan
1948 Israel created, NATO formed; Cold War begins, Bell Labs invent transistor
1949 Kurchatov develops first Soviet A-bomb
1950-1953 Korean War
1951 Teller tests H-bomb
1954 Television thrives, radio switches to music.
1955 Supreme Court orders school desegregation
1954 US Nautilus is first nuclear submarine
1957 Soviets launch Sputnik, first artificial satellite
1959 Alaska & Hawaii become States
1960 Maiman makes first laser
1960-1975 Vietnam War
1961 Bay of Pigs Invastion
1961-69 Kennedy launches Apollo project; man lands on the moon
1962 Cuban Missile crisis
1965 Bob Dylan Like a Rolling Stone
1966-1969 Hippie Movement
1967 Israeli 6-day War, The Beatles Sgt. Pepper
1968*******Approximate age Mr. Moss would have retired (65 years)
1970 US invades Cambodia, Soviet Salyut 1 space station
1972 DDT is banned
1973-74 Nixon resignes over Watergate, Endangered Species Act, Billy Friedkin The Exorcist
1975 South Vietnam surrenders to North Vietnam
1976 Viking I & 2 land on Mars
1978 Personal Computer, punk/rock music
1979 Revolution in Iran; Americans held hostage
1980s CD, VCR, & cable become common
1983 Grenada Intervention
1987 Ozone "hole" found over Antartica
1988 ****** Mr Moss would have been retired about 20 years now
1989 US Invasion of Panama
1990-1991 Persian Gulf War
1991 Japan is worlds largest automaker
1993 Internet expanded with World Wide Web, Steven Spielberg Schindlers List
1996 Intervention in Bosnia
1997 NASA spacecraft lands on Mars
1999 US budget goes into surplus
2000 Animals cloned
2001 9/11 terrorist attack on America, Invasion of Afghanistan
2003 Invasion of Iraq
1/4/2006 Mr. Moss passes away
Location of Headstone: Cemetery
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