Crenshaw County AlArchives Biographies.....Moxley, Daniel Newton 1827 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   DR. DANIEL NEWTON MOXLEY, practicing physician and surgeon of New Providence,
Ala., was born in Burke county, Ga., in 1827. He was a son of Nathaniel and Jane
(Matthews) Moxley, the former a native of Virginia, the latter of North
Carolina. Nathaniel, when a boy, went with his mother and brothers and sisters
to Georgia, his father having died in Virginia. Mrs. Moxley also came to
Georgia, with her parents. Mr. Moxley received a good English education, and
married in Burke county, afterward lived in Stewart county, and then in
Jefferson county, where both Nathaniel and his wife died in 1849. He died of
apoplexy at the age of seventy-nine, and she of consumption, aged sixty-two.
Both of them had been members of the Methodist Episcopal church, many years. Mr.
Moxley was a Whig in politics, was in the war of 1812, was a progressive farmer,
was of a quiet dsposition, and was highly thought of by his friends and
neighbors. He had two elder brothers who served through the Revolutionary war.
Their names were Benjamin and Daniel. Benjamin and his uncle, Joel Dassey, were
with Gen. Marion and were captured by the tories, but made their escape and went
home for a time, on their way home crossing the Savannah river by tying logs
together with bark. After a short stay at home they returned to their command.
Joseph Moxley, the grandfather of our subject, was an Englishman, but died in
Virginia, probably before the Revolutionary war. Aquilla Matthews, the maternal
grandfather of our subject, came from North Carolina to Jefferson county, Ga.,
where he died when the subject was a small boy. He was of Irish descent, reared
a large family, six sons and six daughters, who afterward scattered to different
states. Dr. D. N. Moxley was the second in a family of four sons and one
daughter, viz.: William M.; was a major in the Eighteenth Alabama infantry,
served in the Tennessee army till after the battle of Shiloh, when he resigned
on account of the death of his wife; he has since died; the doctor; Nathaniel
Jasper, served in the war in a cavalry regiment from Georgia, and is now a
prominent citizen of Augusta, Ga.: Benjamin Thomas, served all through the war
in the Eighteenth Alabama infantry, died in Jefferson county, Ga., in 1891;
Sarah E., widow of William Brooks, of Emanuel county, Ga. Dr. D. N. Moxley was
reared or a farm in Stewart county, and Jefferson county, Ga., remaining with
his parents until their death. In 1855 he went to Florida, where he soon
commenced reading medicine, and in 1857 and 1858 attended the Reform Medical
college at Macon, Ga., and at once came to New Providence, then a new country
place, and has practiced there ever since. He is one of the oldest physicians of
the county, and also one of its most prominent citizens. On his arrival here he
purchased his present home, now one of the most pleasant ones in the place. In
January, 1862, he went to Mobile and joined the Twenty-fifth Alabama infantry,
and was made captain of company B. His regiment went to Corinth and fought at
Shiloh, after which he resigned, being in very poor health. After his recovery
he was appointed by Gov. Watts to look after deserters in the lower counties,
which he continued to do until the close of the war. In the meantime, on October
24, 1864, he married Narcissa, daughter of George W. and Eliza King, the former
a native of North Carolina, the latter of Georgia. Mrs. King died in Georgia,
and Mr. King came to Barbour county, Ala., in 1850. In 1857 he came to Pike
county, where he lived until 1878, when he died. He was a farmer all his life,
and raised a large family of children. Mrs. Moxley was born in Lee county, Ga.,
and is the mother of six children, viz.: John Jasper; Mattie, killed by a cotton
gin at nine years of age; William Albert; Anna, died in 1886; Joseph Benjamin,
and Jessie May. Dr. Moxley has done more or less farming all his life, and, for
some years, he has been in the saw-mill business. For some years after the war
he was in the mercantile business at New Providence. He owns now about 1,500
acres of land, and being one of the oldest citizens he has witnessed many
changes in the customs and habits of the people. He has been since before the
war a member of Bullock lodge, F. & A. M., and is a prominent member of the
State Medical association, having served as its vice-president two years. While
he is one of the most widely known he is at the same time one of the most highly
esteemed citizens of the county. In religion he is a Universalist, whose
profession of faith, adopted in 1803, is as follows:
   I. We believe that the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments contain
a revelation of the character of God, and of the duty, interest and final
destination of mankind.
   II. We believe that there is one God, whose nature is Love, revealed in one
Lord Jesus Christ, by one Holy Spirit of Grace, who will finally restore the
whole family of mankind to holiness and happiness.
   III. We believe that holiness and true happiness are inseparably connected.
and that believers ought to be careful to maintain order, and practice good
works; for these things are good and profitable unto men.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 788-789
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI



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