Appling County GaArchives Biographies.....Moody, George W 1814 - 1902
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Author: Shane Forrester

It was in that year of 1901, Grandpa George would take walks 
down the red sandy road that was lined by pecan trees and fields 
of cotton. He would usually carry himself a couple of lengths of 
sugar cane that he knew the farm mules would enjoy as a treat.
 “Queen” & “Pete” were 2 eight-year-old mouse colored mules that
 belong to the family. (They would pull Mrs. Sarah’s two-horse wagon 
to the town called Coffee at least once a week, to attend church.) 
George would stop and give Queen and Pete some sugar cane while he 
would talk to them for a while. Pete would usually grab the cane like 
a duck on a June bug, right out of George’s hand. To the right,
 as George would walk, he sometimes would wave to Jerry Ware and Adam Moody, 
who were former slaves of Grandpa George before the war. George had always 
considered them a part of the family. George called Jerry “Cuffey” and 
Adam “Skillet”.  
Both loved and would put up with Grandpa George since they where children.
 Skillet would mend Grandpa George’s shoes on occasion and help him out
 with things around the house. George treated both Skillet and Cuffey as
 his own family.      
On top of the next ridge near Hammock Branch was where his wife Sally
 was buried, with the rest of her family as well as his children and 
grandbabies he had outlived.  Now Sally’s given name was Sarah, but 
Grandpa George fondly called his sweetheart Sally.  She past on a few
 years back and he sorely missed her. Lying beside her was Ada, Middleton,
 Elmira, Archie and Sarah. They were the grandchildren of George and Sally. 
It was this emptiness that carried his tired and worn body on these daily 
journeys to see her and discuss what was on his mind that day. He was excited 
to tell her about the new addition to the Moody household. A little angel named
 Effie Mae was born to George and Sally’s youngest son Bart and his wife Sarah.
 Barkaloo was Bart’s given name. I guess Georgia people tried to stay away from
 saying their K’s since it was too much of an effort on their tongues. 
 Effie Mae, would be Bart and Sarah’s twelfth child, born on the 12th of 
December.  Just in time for Christmas.
 Grandpa George (Effie Mae’s Grandpa) would be there to watch her mother go 
through the pains of delivery. This would be the last year that Effie Mae 
would be held by her Grandpa George, who was a slender man at the of age 89 
with failing health. Effie Mae would never be able to realize who the old man
 was, that cradled her, and spoke with a soft voice and kissed her good night. 
Now Grandpa George would stay for long hours on that ridge talking to his Sally 
about his new grandbaby and how the house was filled with many children. It 
had been 20 years since he held her hand and kissed her, as the sun rose, 
before he would leave to do the daily farming. 
Braxton Moody was Effie Mae’s oldest brother who moved out and was working
 for the railroad in Waycross when she was born. Big sister Sarah Anne would 
have been there at the house that day, but had died at an early age of three, 
ten years before Effie Mae was born. She had fallen into a boiling pot and is 
now resting beside her grandmother, Sally, on the ridge.
Grandpa George would always grumble about the little room left. The house was 
as full as a tick on a hound dog. Dig shared a room with Browning and 
William Jr. The girls Mamie, Nancy, Macy, Viney, Gussie and Mary all would 
share two rooms. There would be a houseful of Moody’s, all 14 of them living
 under one roof including Grandpa George. In future years, the house would
 suffer the weight of yet another child, named Johnny Young Moody.  It would 
be at this time that Bart would expand the house with another wing to 
accommodate this growing family. 
Usually by special order of Sarah, to the captain, as she lovingly referred 
to her father- in- law, would send the girls to the ridge to summon their 
grandpa to supper. 
The children loved their papa George and often as a treat, would sit at
 his feet or in his lap as he would bare his stories on them of
 the “lions and Indians that lived in them there woods” along with the “mule 
haints that lived back on Smokehouse Creek”.
 No one ever would go back there after hearing such stories. 
Children of George Moody and Sarah Leggett were:
Mary Moody was born in 1831 and married Jacob Hyers. Jacob served 
in Clinch’s Cavalry the 4th Regiment Company G as a Private.

Nancy Moody was born in 1835 and married Jasper Patterson who served 
in the 47th Ga. Co.F. He was unfortunately killed in action.
Nancy would remarry a Dixon.
 Rachel Moody was born in 1838 and she married Middleton Miles
who was killed in action while fighting beside Captain George Moody at 
Kennesaw June 27th 1864.
Melvina (Malvina) Moody was born 1839 and she married Henry Abbott. 
Henry served in Clinch’s Cavalry 4th Regiment Company A.
James Moody was born in 1841. He died at a young age.
 Last shown at age 9 on census.
Jacob Moody was born in 1843 and married Margaret Arnold. He was appointed 
1st Sergeant of the 54th Reg. Co.B.
George T. Moody was born in 1844. He was a Private in the 54th Reg. Co. B.
 He married Catherine Dixon 
Isaac I. Moody was born in 1845. He was a Private 54th Reg. Co. B. 
He married Martha Miles.
Courtney Moody was born in 1849.  She married Allen Dixon a Sergeant
in the 25th Reg. Co. I
Sarah Moody was born in 1851 and married Ansel Byrd.
Miriam Moody was born in1854 and married Aspenwall.
Harriett Moody was born in1856 in married Jackson Turner.
Celia Moody was born 1859 and married Elijah Aspenwall. 
Barkuloo (Bart) Moody born in 1863 and married Sarah Lightsey.


According to the 1860 Census George owned 6 tenants (Slaves) most were children.
(Appling County Courthouse).



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