City: Memphis
MOSS, John T., lawyer; born in Dyer Co., Tenn., Oct. 8, 1848; English and French descent; son of John Hartwell and Martha Ann (Nash) MOSS; paternal grandparents John and Abba (Brown) MOSS, his maternal grandparents, Thomas and Nancy (Rawlings) NASH, moved to Dyer Co. from Nashville; their ancestors were North Carolinians; the city of Nashville took its name from Gen. Francis NASH of Revolutionary War fame, who was a near relative of Dr. Thomas NASH; attended school at the academy of Chestnut Bluff, Tenn., Prof. ALLEN, principal, before the war, and other schools during the war; he also took a course in a male high school at Dyersburg, Tenn., of which Prof. TALLEY (now deceased) was principal; studied law in the office of his uncle, Charles C. MOSS, attorney of Dyersburg, Tenn.; admitted to the bar in May, 1871, at Dyersburg, Tenn., by Judge Thomas J. FREEMAN, Supreme Court Judge, and Judge Gideon J. BLACK, Circuit Judge; married Hattie HILLIARD, Nov. 20, 1883; member F. & A.M. (Blue Lodge), Royal Arcanum, W.O.W. and State Bar Association, also member of Christian Church and Men’s Club of Linden Avenue Christian Church of Memphis, Tenn.; located in Memphis and engaged in the practice of law in March, 1872; Democrat; Judge of the Criminal Court of Shelby Co., Tenn., 1902-1910, and was a member of Howard Association during yellow fever epidemics of 1878 and 1879.
