{"id":901,"date":"2015-09-20T19:23:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T00:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=901"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:54:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:54:00","slug":"edward-a-moseley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/edward-a-moseley\/","title":{"rendered":"MOSELEY Jr., Edward A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EDWARD A. MOSELEY, JR<\/strong>., farmer, is a son of <strong>Thomas G. and Mary T. (Sikes) Moseley<\/strong>, and was born in Bedford County, Tenn., February 17, 1850, of English and Welsh descent.\u00a0 The father was born in Limestone County, Ala., December 13, 1824, and was married December 16, 1846.\u00a0 To them were born nine children.\u00a0 <strong>Thomas G. Moseley<\/strong> served in the commissary department of the Confederate Army under <strong>Maj. James F. Cummings<\/strong>.\u00a0 He served one term in the Confederate Legislature of Tennessee as a member of the House of Representatives.\u00a0 He was a member of the Senate in the Thirty-ninth General Assembly representing Bedford and Rutherford Counties.\u00a0 He was a Henry Clay Whig prior to the war but has been fully identified with the Democratic party since that time.<\/p>\n<p>Our subject&#8217;s early days were spent on a farm and in attending the common schools, after which he took a business and commercial course in Bryant &amp; Stratton&#8217;s Commercial College at Nashville, Tenn.\u00a0 June 80, 1869, he wedded <strong>Miss Mattie Thomas<\/strong>, born August 12, 1852, daughter of <strong>William Thomas<\/strong>, born in 1807 and died in 1861, and <strong>Jane (McCrary) Thomas<\/strong>, born in 1816 and died in 1882.\u00a0 To them were born the following interesting family: <strong>Jesse T. L. P., Mary S., Maggie E., Janie T., Carrie Drue, Mattie Louise and Bessie.<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>Mr. Moseley<\/strong> is a Democrat and a member of the Masonic fraternity.\u00a0 He and wife and three eldest daughters belong to the Missionary Baptist Church.\u00a0 <strong>Mr. Moseley<\/strong> is the owner of 200 acres of land, and the most of his attention is given to raising Norman and Clydesdale horses, of which he has many fine specimens.<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by Kathryn Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford &amp; Marshall Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminescences [Sic], Observations, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDWARD A. MOSELEY, JR., farmer, is a son of Thomas G. and Mary T. (Sikes) Moseley, and was born in Bedford County, Tenn., February 17, 1850, of English and Welsh descent.\u00a0 The father was born in Limestone County, Ala., December 13, 1824, and was married December 16, 1846.\u00a0 To them were born nine children.\u00a0 Thomas &#8230; <a title=\"MOSELEY Jr., Edward A.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/edward-a-moseley\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about MOSELEY Jr., Edward A.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2908],"tags":[2912,2915,2909,2922,2920,2919,2916,2918,2917,2921,2910,2911,2913,2914],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","category-bryant-strattons-commercial-college","tag-cummings-james-f-maj","tag-mccrary-jane","tag-moseley-jr-edward-a","tag-moseley-bessie","tag-moseley-carrie-drue","tag-moseley-janie-t","tag-moseley-jesse-t-l-p","tag-moseley-maggie-e","tag-moseley-mary-s","tag-moseley-mattie-louise","tag-moseley-thomas-g","tag-sikes-mary-t","tag-thomas-mattie","tag-thomas-william"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}