Thomas-Liberty-Brooks County GaArchives Biographies.....Moody, Joseph Way 1878 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   JOSEPH WAY MOODY, D. D. S. The Moody family and its connections have been
identified with south and southwest Georgia for upwards of a century, and have
furnished a number of men notable for useful and honorable careers and
public-spirited citizenship. As one of the younger representatives of the name,
Joseph Way Moody has gained success in his profession at Boston in Thomas
county, where he was born on the 10th of May, 1878.

   His grandfather, S. S. Moody, was for nearly twenty years sheriff of Liberty
county, and removed from that county to Savannah, where he was a cotton broker,
and where he died during an epidemic of yellow fever. He married a member of the
well known Georgia family of Bacons. Her first husband was named Way, and she
was the mother of three children by that marriage, namely: Joseph Way, a
graduate in medicine from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, who
afterwards pursued his studies abroad in Paris, and who for many years was one
of the foremost physicians of southeast Georgia, practicing in Chatham and
Liberty counties; Moses Way, who devoted himself to the field of scholarship,
became a teacher and later a minister of the Methodist church; and Cornelia Way,
who married a Mr. Byrd and was a resident of Thomasville.

   Dr. Moody's father was the late Prof. Axson Quarterman Moody who was born at
Hinesville, Liberty county, May 4, 1840, and who died at his homestead near
Boston in Thomas county, April, 1912. His only brother was William Benjamin
Moody, who went away to the war when a boy and lost his life in one of the
battles at Atlanta.   The late Professor Moody, after fitting for college under
the instruction of his half-brother, Rev. Moses Way, entered the junior class of
Chapel Hill College of North Carolina and was graduated with first honors. In
1858, about the time Brooks county was organized, he settled at Grooverville,
and was engaged in teaching until the war. He did a soldier's duty throughout
that great struggle, and at its close located in Thomasville, where he became
connected with the Fletcher Institute. Some years later removing to Boston, he
began his long service as principal of the Boston Academy. During the quarter of
a century in which he was the active head of that institution he taught and gave
the inspiration of his character to hundreds of youth who have since filled
worthy positions in life. While teaching he bought the interests of the heirs in
the Daniels homestead near Boston, and that was his home until his death.
Professor Moody married Julia Catherine Daniels, who was born on the Daniels
homestead a mile from Boston, and was a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Taylor)
Daniels. Her grandfather, John Daniels, Sr., was one of the first settlers of
southwest Georgia, locating there not long after the Florida purchase, when the
south Georgia frontier first began to be settled. He settled in that part of
Irwin county that is now Thomas county.   Nearly all the land in this vicinity
was still in state ownership, and could be bought for a price that little more
than covered the cost of execution of the papers. He secured large tracts, which
he did much to develop. He was also prominent in public life, representing his
county in the legislature several times. As a legislator he journeyed to and
from Milledgeville, then the capital, on horseback, and on one of his return
trips brought along two young elm trees, which he gave to a neighbor. They were
planted and are still standing, the only ones in this section, and interesting
relics to the descendants of this pioneer legislator. He remained a resident of
Thomas county until his death. John Daniels, Jr., father of Dr. Moody's mother,
was reared in Thomas county and at the breaking out of the Civil war enlisted
and died during his service for the southern cause. His widow afterwards married
C. H. Hicks, who is deceased, and she is now living with her children. Professor
Moody  and wife reared three children, named William Benjamin, Joseph W. and
Ethel May. The daughter is now the wife of A. E. Massey, who is superintendent
of government contract work in New Orleans.   Benjamin W., a graduate of the
Atlanta Medical College and the Atlanta School of Pharmacy, now represents the
Parke-Davis Drug Company as city salesman in New Orleans. Professor Moody was
twice married, his first wife having been Fanny B. Groover, who died leaving two
children. The son L. G., practiced dentistry at Monticello, Florida, until his
death, and the daughter, Fanny Byrd, is the wife of Samuel D. Groover.

   The late Professor Moody was one of the prominent Masons of this vicinity. He
became a member of the Grooverville lodge in 1867, this lodge having since been
moved to Dixie and now known as Dixie lodge. When Horeb lodge was organized at
Boston, he was one of its charter members. He was also a member of Thomasville
chapter of Eoyal Arch Masons, was a charter member of J. M. Rushin Comrnandery
of the Knights Templar, and at the time of his death had been for many years
chairman of the committee on foreign correspondence.

   Dr. Joseph W. Moody received his early education in the Boston public
schools, and after graduation from the high school entered Atlanta Dental
College, where he graduated with the class of 1903. Since that time he has been
actively engaged in practice at his home town of Boston and has a large
patronage. He has also been licensed to practice in Florida.

   He was married February 22, 1905, to Miss Ann Elizabeth Groover, a daughter
of Wiley and Virginia Groover, of Brooks county. One daughter, Virginia Groover
Moody, has been born to their marriage. The doctor and wife are members of the
Missionary Baptist church.


Additional Comments:
From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

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

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