Thomas Moody (1757 - 1855)

Born 9 Nov 1757 in Cumberland, Colony of Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Ann Frances (Young) Moody — married 1777 in Lunenberg Twp., Halifax County, Virginia

Descendants

Died 25 Sep 1855 at age 97 in Clarke, Alabama, United States

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Biography

Dr Thomas Moody served with Cumberland County Militia, Virginia Militia during the American Revolution.

Military Service: Veteran of the Revolutionary War 1777-1780.^[1]

Thomas was born in 1759. He was the son of Thomas Moody and Mary Epps. He passed away in 1855.

Spouse: Mary Ann Frances (Young) Moody (1758 - 1834)

Known Children:

1. Elizabeth Adaline Moody Cass (1774 - 1859)*
2. John Wyatt Moody (1776 - 1839)*
3. Benjamin Epps Moody (1786 - 1854)*
4. Lucinda Moody Andoe (1798 - 1857)*
5. William Moody b: 1784 in NC

Military Service

Included in the pension application of Dr. Thomas Moody was a statement of John Moody, who was the son of a Thomas Moody. This John stated that he was living in Lunenburg County, Virginia in 1776 and was 23 years of age. A history of Oglethorpe County, Georgia revealed that an early settler was John Moody from Virginia. This John had a family among whom were born John, Wyatt, Thomas and a daughter Martha.

Sources

1. ↑ #DAR

• Find A Grave: Memorial #15414373
• Burial: Bethel Methodist Church Cemetery, Clarke County, Alabama
• Photo: Has a photo of gravestone on gravesite
• FAMILY TREE OF JOHN CHARLES SCOTT AND LORENE STANSBERRY Has sources
• Bailey Family 7/21/2017
• Family Search (9MHJ-W82)
• [Moody] Moody, E. Grant and Helen F. Snow. Moody Family Record: The Ancestry and Descendants of Dr. Thomas Moody, a Revolutionary Soldier, Born in Cumberland Co., Virginia, 1759; Also Notes on Related Families. Delta, Utah: Dr. Thomas Moody Family Organization, 1957. FHL Collection 929.273 M771m; digital version at FamilySearch Books
• Moody Family Records
• Moody Family Records
• "The John Wyatt Moody Family Past and Present", Published by the Dr. Thomas Moody Family Organization Inc. 1985.
• Baily Family 8-15-2017
• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed Dec 5, 2017), "Record of Thomas Moody", Ancestor # A079182.
• Revolutionary War Pension Application for Thomas Moody
• Jun 2012 by gmcclantoc added by Collings-376
• 1850 Census of Clarke County, Alabama, lists Thomas Moody, age 91, born Virginia, living in household of daughter, Temperance Moody Lyles. Dr. Thomas Moody (1759) died on September 25, 1855 at Bethel Community, near Bashi in Clarke County. Bashi is the community where Dr. Thomas had his medical practice. For many years Marie Wilkerson of Montgomery, Alabama, a descendant of Dr. Thomas through John Wyatt Moody and Francis Winfred Moodie, searched for his gravesite. Finally, on November 25, 1981, she found his place of burial, which was in the Bethel Methodist Cemetery, Clay Hill Community, on the border of Clarke and Marengo Counties, Alabama. On his marker was written the epitaph "Mark the perfect man and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace." A plaque placed by the Elizabeth Bradford Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution indicates that he was a Revolutionary soldier, 1777-1780. Next to Dr. Thomas' grave is the marker for his daughter, Lucinda Moody Andoe who died two years after him almost to the day, "age 56 years, 9 months and 1 day." Affidavit of George N. Lyles, Jan. 31, 1853, in Clarke County, Alabama, saying, "George N. Lyles of the County of Marengo and state (Alabama) aforesaid. . .says that he has been acquainted with Thomas Moody since the year 1817; that the said Thos. Moody was fond of conversing about the War of the Revolution, talked about it repeatedly; that Thomas Moody always said and told that one Jack Cook drove his waggon at & before the Battle of Camden & that he himself was doing duty as a soldier under General Gates & in his army, that the said waggon was pressed into the service of the Army of the United States & that he never received any pay for it."]]
• Dr.Thomas Moody is buried at the Bethel Methodist Church Cemetery located just over the Marengo County line in Clarke County on County Road 37. This road is called the Ole Dixon's Mills road in Clay Hill, Clark, Alabama
• G. N. Lyles Bible (Family of Thomas Moody) Bible in possession of family member.
• Gwathmey, John H. Image Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1979, p. 559.