Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Seventh Generation5404. Jesse Moore Moss was born in August 1883 in Missouri. He registered for the WWI draft on 12 September 191817568 Jesse died in Alton, Madison Co., IL on 8 March 1949. Dixon Cemetery in Dixon, Pulaski Co., MO on 10 March 1949 .17569 Obituary, Granite City, Madison Co., IL Press Record, Mar. 10, 1949 Jesse M. Moss, 66, of 2137 Madison Avenue, well-known local sportsman and restaurant owner who developed and introduced his own barbecue sauce in the Quad-Cities, was buried at Dixon, Mo, this afternoon following services at a funeral home there. Moss passed away at 1:30 am Tuesday at an Alton hospital following a short illness. He had retired two years ago after operating a restaurant at the Madison Avenue address for 25 years. Moss, who was an active hunter and fisherman, held the patent on Old Kentucky Famous Reheating Sauce, which was sold over a wide area. He retained the patent and the product went off the market after his retirement. A native of Dixon, MO, Moss had been a resident of Granite City for the past 48 years. His only survivors are his wife, Mrs. Clara Dunlap Moss and a brother, Emmet, of Rolla, Mo. Jesse Moore Moss and Clara F. Dunlop were married. They appeared in the census on 13 January 1920 in Granite City, Madison Co., IL.17570 They17570 appeared in the census on 12 April 1930 in Granite City, Madison Co., IL.17571 Clara F. Dunlop, daughter of George W. Dunlop and Anna B. Shriver, was born in February 1885 in Kansas. She lived with her mother in Nameoki Twp., Madison Co., IL on 7 June 1900. |