Biography of Blakely E. Moon, Franklin Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed
Publishing Co., 1889.

Blakely E. Moon was born in Walden County, Ga., July 21, 1839, and is
a son of William B. and Emarilla M. (Brooks) Moon, both of whom were
natives of Walden County, Ga. The former died in Gordon County, of his
native State, in 1868, being fifty-two years old at the time of his
death, and the latter's death occurred in Henderson County, Tex., in
May, 1882, aged fifty-five years. The father was a Democrat, a farmer
and mechanic, and was a soldier in the Florida War, under Gen.
Harrison. He was the father of five sons and three daughters, all of
whom are living but one: Obedience, widow of O. F. Nichols; Joseph E.,
Daniel; Zylphia Jane, wife of S. A. Long; John; Sarah, wife of John
Murrill; William, who died in Tennessee in 1876, and Blakely E. The
latter remained with his parents until the breaking out of the
Rebellion, and in the early part of 1861 went to Savannah and enlisted
in Company H, of the Twenty-third Georgia Infantry, being put in the
State service. His company was sent to Virginia, and while in that
State he participated in the battle of Seven Pines, Seven Days' fight
before Richmond, Wilderness, Williamsburg, Fredericksburg and South
Mountain. He afterward participated in the battles of Savannah and
Ocean Pond, and then returned to Virginia, and took part in the battle
of Petersburg. He received a severe wound in the right leg by a musket
ball, and while at home in Georgia, on furlough, was captured and
taken to Chattanooga, thence to Camp Chase. He was entirely without
means at the close of the war, but was engaged in farming in his
native State until 1869, when he located in Franklin County, Ark.,
where he has an exceedingly fertile and well-improved farm of 200
acres, the result of his energy and perseverance. In August, 1866, he
was married to Cynthia Underwood, a daughter of John Underwood, and a
native of Walker County, Ga. She died in Franklin County, Ark., April
16, 1870, being twenty-eight years of age at the time of her death,
and the mother of three children: Alice, now the wife of A. Jeffrey;
William and an infant. In 1872 Mr. Moon was married to his present
wife, whose maiden name was Josie Moore. She was born in Gordon
County, Ga.; in 1853, and was left an orphan at an early day. To her
union with Mr. Moon seven children have been born: Charles F., Eugene,
Josie, Sula, Toker, Rotie, and Abner an infant. Mr. and Mrs. Moon are
members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and he is a Democrat.