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Source: Southwest Louisiana and Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin published in 1891;  page 294.



                         ALEXANDER MOSS
                         Abbeville, LA
                                
Alexander Moss was born in Lafayette parish, near Royville, in
1831. He is the son of Joseph and  Clara, (Thibodeaux) Moss.
Joseph Moss was a native of Georgia, and came to Lousis-
iana with his parents when young, locating in Vermilion
parish, they being among the pioneer settlers of this section.
Joseph Moss afterward located in Lafayette parish, where he
became a prosperous planter.  He died in the prime of his life.
The subject of this sketch is the second of ten children, of
whom A. J  Moss, of Lafayette, whose sketch appears in another
part of this work, is a brother. Young Alexander worked on his
father's plantation and attended school alternately until he
attained his majority. At his father's death he removed to
Vermilion parish and assumed charge of the sugar plantation which
his father possessed in that parish. He located permanently in
his present place of residence in 1868, where he owns two hundred
and forty acres of land under the best of improvement, the
principal product of his plantation being sugar cane.  Mr. Moss
has also a fine orange grove of from one thousand to twelve
hundred trees, with a variety of other fruits. He was a soldier
in the late war, having enlisted in 1862, in Fournet's Yellow
Jacket Battalion, afterward being transferred to the Eighteenth
Louisiana. He participated in the battles at Bisland, Yellow
Bayou and in other minor engagements. At Bisland he was taken
prisoner, and detained a short while at New Orleans. Mr. Moss was
united in marriage, in 1861, with Miss Martha Rice, daughter of
Samuel R. Rice. They are the parents of eight living children,
seven daughters and a son. Our subject is a member of the
Farmers' Alliance, ancl is an ardent democrat.