Calhoun-Sumter County AlArchives Biographies.....Moody, Martin T. 1845 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    MARTIN T. MOODY, was born at Belmont, Sumter County, Ala., November 4, 1845,
and is a son of Theophilus and Mary L. (Little) Moody, natives respectively of
South Carolina and Georgia.

    The senior Mr. Moody moved with his parents from South Carolina to
Mississippi. In 1831 he came to Alabama and joined the Alabama Conference in
1832 at Tuscaloosa, of which he was one of the original organizers. He lived in
Alabama until his death, which occurred at Gadsden, March 13, 1879. His wife
died at Gainesville, Ala., in 1854. He reared two sons and two daughters, viz.:
William R., Martin T. (our subject); Fannie A., wife of Milton Jenkins, Camden,
Ala.; and Sarah E., wife of George W. Caldwell, also of Camden. Mr. Moody was
one of the pioneer preachers of this State, and was a very popular and
well-known man.

    The mother of our subject was a daughter of William Little, a leading
attorney of Carnesville, Ga. He was a prominent and wealthy citizen, and died
about the close of the war.

    The subject of this sketch was reared in Alabama and educated principally at
Summerfield, Dallas County. In the spring of 1862, he enlisted in Company I,
Twenty-eighth Alabama, as a private, and served until health failed. From an
attack of brain fever, he lost his hearing and was detailed in the niter mining
service as a clerk in which capacity he remained until the close of the war. At
the close of hostilities he returned to Camden, where he served as Clerk of the
Probate Court four years, going thence to Selma, and serving four years in the
Probate Court of that County. In 1873 he came to Cross Plains and engaged in the
drug business, which he has continued ever since, with marked success.

    September 15, 1869, Mr. Moody was married to Sarah E. Scurry, daughter of
Dr. John R. Scurry of Cross Plains. They had born to them seven children,
to-wit: Arthur R., May Louise, Anna, Lucy, Ida, Martin T., Jr., and Harry. The
family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.

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