Georgia:  Coweta County:  Biography of LUTHER T. MOSES 

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LUTHER T. MOSES is one of the best known men of this section of the state, 
being chief deputy of internal revenue of Georgia. He is a grandson of a 
soldier of the war of 1812, Neal Moses, who with his wife, Nancy (Manning) 
Moses, came from their native state, North Carolina, to Georgia in 1812, and 
after a short residence here went to Alabama, where Mr. Moses died. Their 
son, Ansley Moses, was born in Fayette county, Ga., in 1829. He was a man of 
great ability and very useful to his state. In 1860 he helped organize 
Company D, Fifty-third Georgia regiment, Longstreet's corps. With this he 
went out as captain, being sent on an expedition to the coast. The next year 
he went out as first lieutenant but after a few months was made captain of 
Company D, which rank he held until 1863. Longstreet was then transferred to 
the western army, and in April Capt. Moses was taken prisoner at Knoxville, 
Tenn., and imprisoned for eight months at Camp Chase, Ohio; it was while here 
that he contracted the chronic lung disease which eventually caused his 
death; from Camp Chase he was transferred to Fort Delaware, where he remained 
until the close of the war. Mr. Moses represented his county in the 
legislature in 1873 and 1874. He was deacon in the Baptist church, in which 
he had been a conscientious member and earnest worker from the age of 
twenty-one. His death occurred in 1886, and was greatly deplored. The wife 
of Capt. Moses was Miss Mary E. Leavell, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth W. 
(Hunter) Leavell, both natives of Virginia, but who passed their youth in 
South Carolina, coming to Georgia about 1832 and making their home in Coweta 
county. It was in this county that Luther T. Moses was reared, having been 
born in 1853. He received a good common school education and devoted some 
ten years to teaching. His interest in schools has always been very deep, 
and he has manifested this interest constantly and by every possible means, 
doing everything in his power to advance the educational interests of his 
native county, often at considerable sacrifice to himself. He was a member 
of the school board from 1880 to 1887, and again from 1889 to 1893, each time 
resigning to take an important government position. This was the office of 
deputy internal revenue collector, to which he was appointed by President 
Cleveland in January, 1887, holding it until the inauguration of the new 
president, being appointed chief deputy in August, 1893, the position he 
still holds. Mr. Moses was married in 1884, his wife being Miss Etta North, 
born in 1860 and reared in Coweta county, the daughter of Thomas G. and Jane 
(Jones) North. They have four children: Tallmadge, Alice, L. T., and Mary. 
Both Mr. and Mrs. Moses are steadfast members of the Baptist church, and 
everywhere beloved and respected. Mr. Moses is a man of wide and growing 
influence and is sure to make his mark in his country and age.

Transcribed from MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA published by the Southern Historical 
Association, 1895.