MOSS, A. J., Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
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A. J. MOSS, LAFAYETTE.--Anderson Joseph Moss is a native of Lafayette parish,
born 1825.  He is the son of Joseph H. and Claire (Thibodeaux) Moss.  Joseph
H. Moss was a native of Georgia, and came to Louisiana in 1810, when five
years of age, with his father.  He received his education in the schools of
Lafayette parish, and became a successful planter, to which he devoted his
whole attention.  He had succeeded in accumulating quite a fortune at the time
of his death in 1848.  The mother of our subject died in 1889, at the age of
eighty-two years.  The grandfather of our subject, Nathaniel Moss, was a
native of Virginia, and died in 1826, aged seventy-four years.

A. J. Moss received his preparatory education in the schools of Louisiana, and
later pursued a course at Center College, Danville, Kentucky.  After leaving
school he read law, but upon the death of his father it devolved upon him to
manage the plantation, and he gave up his law studies.  Early in life Mr. Moss
became identified with public affairs.  He was a member of the Legislature,
and of the Constitutional Convention of 1852.  From 1853 to 1860, he was in
the custom house in New Orleans.  In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate
States army, Company A, Twenty-sixth Louisiana Regiment.  Shortly after
entering the army he was appointed assistant commissary of subsistence, with
rank of captain.  In this capacity he served during the whole war.  After the
war he returned home completely broken up as regards finances.

During the existence of that office, Mr. Moss was nine years judge of
Lafayette parish.  He also for a number of years served as justice of the
peace and notary public, and is now a leading member of the town council.

For the past few years Judge Moss has been successfully engaged in the lumber
trade at this place.  He was married in 1856 to Miss Octavie Cornay, of St.
Mary parish.  They are parents of six living children, four sons and two
daughters, viz.  Dr. N. P., of Lafayette ;  C. P., merchant, New Iberia;  F.
E., merchant, Lafayette ;  James A., cadet in the U. S. Military Academy, West
Point;  Emily and  Adah.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
236-237.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.