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 1914 - 1987

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• Birth	25 Sep 1914	La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA   [1, 2, 3]
  	at the family home at Lafayette and Madison Streets
  Gender	Male
  Also Known As	Harry
  Census	16 Jan 1920	La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA   [4]
  	Madison St.
  Census	16 Apr 1930	La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA   [5]
  	Madison St.
  Residence	24 Mar 1987	Ledbetter, Fayette, Texas, USA   [2]
  Occupation	Mechanical Engineer
  Died	24 Mar 1987	Fayette County, Texas, USA   [6, 7]
  	at his home between Ledbetter and La Grange
  Person ID	I13557	Dyal and Speckels
  Last Modified	25 May 2009
  Father	Edward Harry MOSS,   b. 14 Jul 1874, Ledbetter, Fayette, Texas, USA ,   d. 18 Nov 1946, Houston, Harris, Texas, USA
  Mother	Johanna VON ROSENBERG,   b. 18 Sep 1886, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA ,   d. 16 Oct 1975, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA
  Family ID	F8853	Group Sheet
  Family	Margaret Elizabeth SMITH,   b. 8 Mar 1917, Port Lavaca, Calhoun, Texas, USA ,   d. 11 Oct 2007
  Married	8 Jul 1941	Port Lavaca, Calhoun, Texas, USA   [8]
  Children	> 1. Mary Margaret MOSS > 2. Martha Susan MOSS
  Family ID	F9455	Group Sheet

• Event Map		Event Birth - 25 Sep 1914 - La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA Census - 16 Jan 1920 - La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA Census - 16 Apr 1930 - La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA Married - 8 Jul 1941 - Port Lavaca, Calhoun, Texas, USA Residence - 24 Mar 1987 - Ledbetter, Fayette, Texas, USA Died - 24 Mar 1987 - Fayette County, Texas, USA  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	= Address   = Location   = City/Town   = County/Shire   = State/Province   = Country   = Not Set




• Headstones		Moss, Edward Harry Jr. and Margaret Smith Status: Located.

• Notes

  Harry was the team captain of his high school football team. At college in 1917 he earned his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and later obtained an M.S. in the same field of study. He was a member of the Ramshorn Association and Pi Tau Sigma Fraternity, an honorary mechanical engineering fraternity. He worked for Westinghouse in Pennsylvania and Fluor in Houston before starting his own company in 1948, the Texas Metal Fabricating Company. The company continued under Harry’s leadership until his retirement in 1977. He was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Professional Engineers Society of Houston. He was active in the Houston Power Squadron and the Houston Yacht Club. He included the entire family in his hobby of boating. After retirement, Harry moved to the Moss (Maas) farm between Ledbetter and La Grange in Fayette County. He moved his childhood home from Lafayette Street in La Grange to the farm and expanded and remodeled it. Nine months after being diagnosed with lung cancer, he died in the same bedroom in which he was born. [7]

• Sources

  [S835] The von Rosenberg Family of Texas, ed., Ann Barnes, (Nortex Press (Austin, 2001)), p. 105. [S82] Social Security Death Index, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006), Number: 159-16-3331;Issue State: Pennsylvania;Issue Date: Before 1951. [S14] Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920, United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Fayette County, Texas, ED 52, p. 10B, line 4. [S14] Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920, United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Fayette County, Texas, ED 52, p. 10B, line 54. [S15] Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930, United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Fayette County, Texas, ED 1, p. 12A, line 43. [S312] Texas Death Index, 1903-2000, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006). [S835] The von Rosenberg Family of Texas, ed., Ann Barnes, (Nortex Press (Austin, 2001)), pp. 105-106. [S371] The Von Rosenberg Family Record, ed., Charles Wilburn von Rosenberg, (Texian Press (Waco, TX, 1974)), p. 142.