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son George Mc., who was born in Sugar Ridge township, Clay county,
November 19, 1832. On the 16th of August, 1854, at what was then
known as Grimes church, located in the center of the county, he married
Martha E. Adams, who was born in Rosedale, Parke county, Indiana,
a daughter of Samuel C. and Nancy (McGinnis) Adams. The young
couple took up their abode on one hundred and sixty acres of land on
the northwest half of section 16, township 1, range 6 West, Clay county,
and there spent their useful lives and died, the husband in June, 1899,
and the wife on the 22d of January, 1882. Of their large family of ten
children, six sons and four daughters, four sons and two daughters are
now living, as follows: Andrew, whose home is in Ashboro; James K.,
who is mentioned later; Samuel T., an educator in Birmingham, Alabama;
Ida M., the wife of William Slack, of Ashboro; Eva, the wife of Henry
Fogle, and their home is in Sugar Ridge township; and John J., who
resides on the old homestead farm and is the assessor of Sugar Ridge
township.
    Dr. James K. Moss, the second born of the ten children of George
Mc. and Martha E. (Adams) Ross, was born in Ashboro October 14,
1857, and received his early training in its common schools and in the
high school of Center Point, where he was a pupil of William Travis.
His professional training was received in the Medical College of Indiana,
at Indianapolis, where he graduated as a physician and surgeon, and
after his marriage he began practice in Ashboro. During the many years
which have since come and gone he has become well known as a medical
practitioner, and at the present time is also the proprietor of a drug store
in this city. He owns twenty acres of the old Moss farm, but his resi-
dence, a beautiful place surrounded by eight acres, is in town. For
twenty years the Doctor served as committeeman of this precinct, and
during two years or one term served as the coroner of Clay county.
    He married, on May 2, 1878, Kate L. McAllister, a daughter of
Dr. R. B. and Elizabeth (La Feber) McAllister, natives respectively of
Baltimore, Maryland, and Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Dr. McAl-
ister was one of the prominent early physicians of Ashboro and he died
here December 23, 1879. Mrs. McAllister resided with her daughter,
Mrs. Moss, until her death, April 23, 1906, at the advanced age of
eighty-eight years. The following children have been born to Dr. and
Mrs. Moss: Fred, born November 4, 1879, a resident of Birmingham,
Alabama; Daisy, born July 25, 1882, the wife of Charles W. Witty, of
Center Point; George Mack, born November 19, 1888; Clifford, born
January 25, 1892; Lo., July 15, 1894; Helen, November 29, 1898; Hil-
dreth, July 17, 1902; and Paul, July 19, 1905. Dr. Moss is a Mason, a
charter member of Center Point Lodge, and is also a member of the blue
lodge and the Order of Eastern Star. His religious affiliations are with
the Universalist church.

    Cassius M. FUNK, a substantial farmer and a well known citizen of
public affairs, resides on section 30, Washington township, Clay county.
He is also one of the most influential members of the Methodist Episcopal
church in that section of the county, having been faithful and untiring in
his good work for a period of forty-one years. During this long period
he has either been a steward or a class leader. There are few citizens of
the county whose usefulness has been broader, and none whose life
labors have been conducted on a higher plane.