Aiken County ScArchives Obituaries.....Mood, William G. January 18, 1885
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Aiken Recorder 20 Jan 1885 
Death of Mr. William G. Mood.

This well known and highly esteemed citizen peacefully breathed his last on 
Sunday night, the 18th of January, 1885, at his residence three and a half miles 
from Aiken, after a short illness, in the eighty-first year of his age. 

Mr. William G. Mood was a native of Charleston, and at a very early age engaged 
in mercantile pursuits, first when a mere boy as a clerk on King Street, and 
afterwards as an active partner in the old and well known firm of Andrew 
McDowell & Co., a large wholesale house on Easy Bay, which did an immense trade 
with the rice and cotton planters of the low country. In 1853 he retired from 
business and moved to Aiken, where he has lived ever since, actively engaged  as 
as a cultivator of the soil. His farm near Aiken, which is appropriately named 
Peacedale, will bear testimony to his enlightened methods and systematic work. 
He had been an earnest and active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for 
sixty years, and was one of those mainly instrumental in the building of the 
Aiken Methodist Episcopal Church. During the late Confederate war he was an 
enthusiastic supporter of the Confederate cause, and though long past the age 
when he could offer the aid if his own right arm, yet he freely invested his 
savings of long years of honest toil in the bonds of the Confederacy. The result 
that he lost all; but with patience and uncomplaining Christian fortitude he 
pursued the even tenor of his way, bearing his losses like a philosopher and all 
the more earnestly plying his avocation as a farmer, and succeeded in obtaining 
from the soil an ample income for his retired mode of life. His manner of life 
was singularly quiet, unassuming and blameless, his manners hentle and kind, and 
within his breast he bore a heart which throbbed with a quick and generous 
response to the troubles of friend or neighbor. Indeed his very death is an 
illustration of the fine texture of the sensibilities and sympathies of this 
kind-hearted Christian gentleman. On Friday, the 16th of January, Earnest, the 
infant son of Mr. F.J. Rankin, (who under his direction, has been the active and 
faithful business manager of his farm for a number of years) breathed his last 
about 1 p.m. During the illness of this child Mr. Mood manifested intense 
interest and sympathy, and was present at its death, which so wrought upon his 
feelings that he retired to his residence a few steps off, where in an hour 
afterwards he was visited by Dr. T.G. Croft and induced to go to bed. From this 
time he gradually sunk, and breathed his last on Sunday night, the 18th January, 
at 10 o'clock. Thus it will be seen that the silver chord of life was broken by 
his intense sympathy for the affliction of a faithful friend. Such an end was 
entirely in keeping with the gentle, upright, honorable life of our departed 
friend.

The funeral services will take place this afternoon at the Aiken Methodist 
Church at 3 o'clock.

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