Covington County AlArchives Biographies.....Moseley, William J. April 19 1840 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
  WILLIAM J. MOSELEY, clerk of the circuit court of Covington county, was born
in Talledega county, Ala., April 19, 1840. He is a son of John and Anne (Dean)
Moseley, the former born in Georgia in 1810 and the latter in Talledega county,
Ala., about 1818. Mr. Moseley was brought up on a farm, was well educated,
following farming for a livelihood, and was tax collector of Dallas county,
where he lived for twenty-four years before his death in 1888. He was a member
of the primitive Baptist church, as is his widow, who is still living in Dallas
county. Grandfather Elijah Moseley was a native of Georgia, but removed to
Alabama in 1820, settling in Dallas county, where he died before William J. was
born. He was a pioneer, served in the Indian war, and raised a family of sixteen
children. The maternal grandfather, Jared Dean, was born and died in Talledega
county. William J. Moseley was the third of a family of twelve children. One
brother, Rev. P. L. Moseley, now of Ozark, a minister of the Missionary Baptist
church, was in the cavalry service during the late war, and was slightly wounded
at Four Mile creek, near Mobile. William J. was reared on a farm with but
limited advantages for securing an education in early life; but later on he took
an academic course finishing at Marlin, Tex., in 1876. In March, 1861, he joined
company C, Fifth Alabama infantry, spent a short time at Montgomery, when he
went to Virginia and fought in the first battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861, his
first fight, and then, at Seven Pines, Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor and Malvern
Hill, where he was wounded five times and lost his left leg. He was then taken
to Richmond, where he was taken care of by a cousin for a short time and then
taken home. In 1863 he was elected tax assessor of Dallas county, and the same
fall was appointed revenue collector, and held both positions till the
surrender, when he was relieved by Federal authority. In 1866 he was again
elected tax-assessor and held the office till the fall of 1868. In 1871 he went
to Texas and taught school and also attended school until 1877, when he went to
Montgomery, La., on Red river, where he taught school for eight years. In 1886
he came to Covington county, Ala., and taught school till 1889, when he was
appointed clerk of the circuit court, which position he still retains. He was
married February 1, 1886, to Cynthia, daughter of Kent Tillis. Mrs. Moseley was
born in Coffee county, Ala., and both she and her husband are members of the
Missionary Baptist church. Mr. Moseley is a member of the Masonic fraternity,
and is also a member of the farmer's alliance.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 757-758
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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