Henry County AlArchives Biographies.....Moody, Fleming I. February 2 1856 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    FLEMING I. MOODY, physician and surgeon of Dothen, and one of the most
eminent men in Henry county, was born in Appling county, Ga., February 2, 1856.
He was one of nine children born to Jacob and Mary (Tilman) Moody, the former of
whom was born in Appling county in 1811, and was reared upon his father's farm.
Later in life he began business for himself, and became one of the leading
planters of Appling county. He speculated largely in slaves before the war. In
the fall of 1867 he removed to Brooks county, where he engaged in merchandising,
but later returned to farming, and continued that occupation until 1885, when he
came to Henry county, and has since resided there with his son, Fleming I.
Moody. He was married at the age of twenty-four, and is now eighty-one, hale and
hearty, spending most of his time traveling. His wife was also a native of
Appling county, Ga., born in 1822, married in her sixteenth year, and became the
mother of nine children, five of whom survive. Two of these reside in Georgia
and the rest in Dothen. She is now in her seventieth year, and lives with her
son. She had the advantages of the best of education. Fleming I. Moody passed
his early life largely in the school room, and gained a good literary education
at the Bradwell institute, located at Hinesville, Ga.; later he entered the
university of Georgia, located at Athens, leaving there at the close of his
junior year, in 1873. He then read medicine under a private preceptor, and in
1874 entered the college of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Md.,
graduating in 1876. He has since then taken a post-graduate course at the New
Orleans Medical college. He commenced the practice of medicine at Gordon, Ala.,
and lived there four years. He then moved to Abbeville, Ala., and practiced till
1885, when he located in Columbia, remaining there till 1889. He finally removed
to Dothen, and has here built up a large practice, which he is still increasing.
He was married to Miss Iona G. Hays, daughter of Aleck P. and Margaret (Bowden)
Hays, the former of whom was a native of Virginia, came to Alabama at an early
day, became very wealthy, and died in 1871. The wife of F. I. Moody was born at
Cedar Springs, and entered the Female college of Athens, Ga., from which she
graduated with high honors. She has borne her happy husband four children, viz.:
Earle F., Sherod H., Fleming, deceased, and Alba. Fleming I. Moody, in addition
to the fine practice which he has built up in Dothen, has the position of
surgeon to the Alabama Midland railroad company. He is also president of Henry
county Medical society, and is chairman of the board of censors, having held
this office eight years. He became a Mason in 1877, at Gordon, Ala. He has taken
a very active interest in the upbuilding of Dothen, and has been identified with
the securing of manufactures for that place.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1108-1109
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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