Tattnall County, Ga Biographies  MOODY, Manning Milxer

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MOODY, Manning Milxer, farmer and postmaster, Long Branch, was
born Sept. 8, 1844, in Tattnall county, and was the son of Dr.
Manning James Moody and Penelope Moody. Dr. Manning J. Moody
was an extensive farmer all his life, and for twenty years
practiced medicine, ranking high in the esteem of his brother
practitioners, and achieving great professional success. He was
a high Mason and served one term in the house and one term in
the senate, as a representative from Tattnall county. He died
in 1866, and his wife survived him but two years. Manning Miles
Moody was educated in the common schools of Liberty county, and
left these schools when seventeen years old to enlist in the
Confederate army. He was in the Liberty guards, a cavalry
company, under Capt. William Hughes and Col. N.H. Anderson. He
was in a number of skirmishes and at the battle of Bentonville,
N.C. He served through the entire war, and returning home took
charge of his father's farm. He was married to Miss Mary Martin
Bradwell, of Hinesville, Liberty Co., April 12,1869. She was a
daughter of Col. James and Isabella Bradwell. She was a sister
of Ex-State School Commissioner S.D. Bradwell, who is now
president of (Rock college) the state normal school. She was an
active member of the Presbyterian church, a highly esteemed
Christian lady. She is now deceased. Mr. Moody is a member of
the Baptist church at South Salem, Liberty Co. He has been
postmaster at Long Branch for twenty years and jury
commissioner of Tattnall county for fifteen years. He was first
appointed by Gov. Hirschel V. Johnson. He has always been a
strong democrat, and never scratched that ticket in voting it
in his life. He takes great interest in the cause of education,
and is one of Tattnall’s most prominent farmer-citizens.