Randolph County GaArchives Biographies.....Moye, Andrew Jackson 1832 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   ANDREW JACKSON MOYE. A position of leadership in a community is not easily
acquired except by hard work, careful management and enduring integrity. When
his fellow citizens in Randolph county speak of Mr. Moye as the wealthiest or
one of the wealthiest men of the county they also imply in this assertion that
he has acquired this position of both affluence and influence by the most
honorable means, and that his long life has been one of utmost honor in all its
varied relations.

   Past eighty years of age, Mr. Moye is one of the oldest residents of Randolph
county, and represents a family which gave pioneer service in clearing the
woods, and making farms and planting the early crops and founding of civilized
institutions in this section of Georgia. Andrew Jackson Moye was born on a
plantation about ten miles east of Barnwell Courthouse in South Carolina,
December 12, 1832. His father was the Hon. Allen Moye, who was born on the same
plantation in 1798. The grandfather was Matthew Moye who was born in North
Carolina, whence he removed to South Carolina, purchasing land bordering upon
Falttatcher creek, ten miles east of Barnwell Courthouse. The grandfather was a
man of much ability and considerable property, and with the aid of his slaves
cleared out a farm and made it his home until his death.

   Allen Moye, the father, acquired a good education in his native district and
was still a very young man when he was called into public affairs. He was
elected a representative in the state legislature, a few weeks before he was
twenty-one years of age. In 1834 he sold his estate in South Carolina and came
into Georgia, settling in Randolph county. On that journey he was accompanied by
his wife and six children, and they came through the woods and over the rough
roads and trails with teams and wagons, bringing all their household goods and a
large supply of agricultural implements, the slaves following along on foot. A
tract of land three miles northwest of Cuthbert was the site chosen for his
location. At that time the population in this district was very sparse and the
Indians were still here and laid claim to the region as their hunting grounds.
He was in Georgia in time to participate in the last great Indian war of 1836,
when the southwestern Indians were finally defeated and compelled to remove to
the West. In 1841, Allen Moye became a candidate for the state senate. During
the campaign he attended a rally and barbecue at which he caught cold and his
death occurred before the election. Allen Moye married Sarah J. Rice, daughter
of Charles Rice, who so far as known was a lifelong resident of South Carolina
in the Barnwell district. Mrs. Moye died in 1862 at the age of sixty years. Her
ten children were named William, John, George, Andrew J., Mary, Benjamin, Wyatt,
Allen, and Sarah.

   Andrew Jackson Moye since he was two years of age has spent nearly all his
life in Randolph county, and there is probably no other resident whose actions
cover so much of the development of this section from its primitive conditions
to the present time. As a boy he attended one of the neighborhood schools, that
school being taught in a log building on the home farm. Subsequently the old
frame courthouse at Cuthbert was removed in order to make room for a new brick
structure, and the old building was then put to use as a school house, and as a
boy he remembers that building as one of the institutions in Randolph county.
Early in his youth he went to Georgetown, and became clerk in a general store.
With the earnings of that occupation during two years he was enabled to advance
his education, and attended the Brownwood Institute at Lagrange, and remained
there as a student until the death of his brother George. Then at the
solicitation of his mother he returned home to take charge of the farm. The
following year he went to Eufaula, Alabama, where he was engaged in clerking for
a time, after which he returned to the farm for a few months, and then moved
into Cuthbert, where he was clerk in the store of Mr. Jesse E. Key until the
latter's death. Then in 1859 he bought a plantation adjoining the old homestead
and devoted all his time and attention to agricultural activities until after
the war.

   In 1864 Mr. Moye enlisted in Company B, of the Tenth Georgia Infantry, and
was engaged with this regiment in the defense of Atlanta. After the fall of that
city he was in the battle at Griswolds Station, and while the army was on the
inarch to Altamaha he was detailed as assistant quartermaster, being sent back
to Macon where he remained until the close of the war. He was then paroled, and
returned home to the farm, where he continued to live and manage the property
until 1875. In that year he moved into Cuthbert and has since had his home in
the county seat. His father soon after moving1 to Randolph county, bought a
block of land west of and facing the public square in Cuthbert, and on a portion
of this land Mr. A. J. Moye erected a building which he has since used for an
office. For many years he has made a business of loaning- money, and also
employs his time in looking after his various investments, and other affairs.

   In November, 1859, he married Laura J. West, who was born in Stewart county,
a daughter of William and Laura Elizabeth (Pettit) West. Mr. and Mrs. Moye have
five children: Andrew Clinton, Robert Leiden, Andrew Pettit, Loraine Mickle and
Claude T. The son, Andrew Clinton, is a planter and has a mill and gin in
Randolph county. He married Dixie Harris, and their two children are named
Hubert Melton and Clinton. Robert L. is a practicing attorney and former mayor
of Cuthbert, and by his marriage to Florence Powell has three children named
Annie Laurie, Powell, and Eloise. Andrew P. is a merchant and planter, and
married Lilla Tumlin, and their five children are Lewis, Guydon, Marie, Martha
and Claude. Loraine M. married Elizabeth Walrath, and their two children are
Laura Estelle and Andrew J. The parents of Mr. Moye were Baptists, and his wife
is a member of that faith and has reared her children in the creed and practice
of this religion.



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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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