FLOYD COUNTY, GA - OBITS   Capt. A. B.S.
Moseley

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Rome Tribune February 10, 1912

CAPT. A.B.S. MOSELEY IS CALLED BY DEATH
WAS PROMINENT IN NORTH GEORGIA

Passes Away Friday Afternoon After Long Illness

Funeral Probably Sunday Afternoon

End Comes Peacefully To Soldier, Scholar And Christian
On Friday evening at six o'clock the soul of Capt.
A. B.S. Moseley passed from earth to the rest of
Paradise. With his passing Rome loses a man who has
left his impress upon the community for good, in
every relation of life,  as gallant soldier, veteran
newspaper man, and consecrated church worker. The
last summons came to him after weary months of
illness, though for the past few weeks his condition
had seemed improved. The final attack was a sudden
one, and life passed quietly, while a petition to
the throne of grace was being offered at his bedside
by his pastor, Dr. R. B. Headden.

The funeral will probably be held on Sunday
afternoon at three o'clock, though definite
arrangements had not been completed at a late hour
last night. The funeral will be at the First Baptist
Church, conducted by the Rev. Dr. Headden, and the
services at the grave will be in charge of Cherokee
Lodge of Masons, of which Capt. Moseley was for many
years a member and an officer.

Having grown from young manhood to a ripe age in
Rome, the Captain was a factor in the life of the
city, as it progressed from a village, and with
voice,  pen and personal example he stood always for
the things that are right. His sixty-eight years
were years of usefulness, and by his death the
newspaper fraternity of the state loses one of its
oldest and most prominent members. His career was an
interesting one, for he took part in many thrilling
scenes during the war and during reconstruction, but
he was a singularly modest man where his own affairs
were concerned and he talked of them only in
response to questions.

He was born about 1844 in Alabama, of a well-known
family of that state, and as a youth was
distinguished for a love of literature and a thirst
for knowledge. He sought the best education that the
country could afford. His brilliant mind outstripped
his years, and at fifteen he was ready for college.
Barred from Princeton because of his youth, he
entered Rutgers College, New Jersey, then known as
Queens. When it became apparent that war between the
states was inevitable his heart naturally turned to
his native state and though the collegiate year was
not an end he announced his intention of returning
to Alabama. In recognition of the unusual stand he
had taken in his classes he was given special
examination by the faculty and was handed his
diploma at the railroad station just before his
departure.

He enlisted in Co. C of the Fourth Alabama in April
of 1861, and served throughout the entire war. He
entered as a private and the close of the four years
of terrible strife found him with the rank of
captain of Co. E., First Alabama. He was in the
trenches at St. Petersburg, was wounded there, was
again wounded at Manassas, and was finally sent home
on invalid duty. He was well known as an intrepid
young soldier and one especially interesting
incident in which he took part was an escape from
the Federal soldiers, and a turning of the tables
whereby he captured his recent captor, a colonel.
The horse of the colonel was also taken and Capt.
Moseley presented the steed to General Beauregard,
his commander.

Shortly after the war Capt. Moseley came to Rome and
began his long and honorable career as a member of
the Fourth Estate. He established the first, or one
of the first daily papers Rome ever had. At
different times he was in editorial control of the
Bulletin,  the Tribune, the Georgian, the Free
Lance, and other papers. He was a contemporary of M.
A. Nevin, of Henry Grady, of Stanton, of Folsom and
of Graves. He was a successful publisher, both from
the business and editorial points of view. He always
advocted progressive measures and contributed
largely to the upbuilding and development of the
Rome of today.

Of a genial and companionable temperment, his
society was sought by his fellows. At college he was
a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity. He affiliated
with the Cherokee Lodge of Masons long years ago,
and had been for years its chaplain. He had also
occupied a similar office in the Seventh District
Masonic Convention, honors worthily worn.

Perhaps his greatest joy in life was his work in the
church. For seventeen years he had been clerk of the
First Baptist Church congregation. His whole
energies were always at the service of the church,
and he took part in all of her activities. Although
not an ordained  minister, he occupied the place set
apart for such in the esteem of his fellowmen and
visited the sick and suffering, comforted the
sorrowing and raised his voice in prayer, as a true
man of God.

He was a man of commanding statue, and with his long
silver hair and beard was a marked figure, as he
moved about Rome's streets. His mind was a
storehouse of reminiscence and history and his
company was much sought by old and young. Never a
strong man, wearing the wounds of battle for years,
mind triumphed over body until last October, when he
was forced to retire from active newspaper work, and
his paper, the Free Lance, passed into other hands.
Since then he had suffered from nervous prostration
and had been missed from the lodge room, the church,
and the journalistic chair.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Beulah Shropshire
Moseley, who was for years his true helpmeet in the
work of his profession and by two sisters Dr. Emma
Bailey Moseley, of Washington, D.C. and Mrs. Walter
Johns, of Richmond. The former is expected here for
the funeral. The latter is traveling in Europe and
will not be able to reach Rome.

Whether as contemporary or co-worker, Capt. Mosely
was held in the highest esteem by the newspaper
craft, one and all. The Tribune-Herald but voices
the sentiment of this community when it pays a ---
ple deserved tribute to the worth of the good man
now gone, and extends to the sorrowing wife and
sisters sincere fraternal sympathy. (Note: He was
born Oct. 19, 1843, d Feb. 9. He is buried along
with his second wife, to whom he was married Feb.
14, 1882 Rome and who died Nov. 24, 1947  in
Washington, D.C., in the Myrtle Hill Cemetery. His
first wife was Marjorie P.Swain of Tallifero Co.b/
1871 d. 1881 in Rome)