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LEWIS MOSELEY
Ozark Tribune, Sept. 13, 1904
LEWIS MOSELEY
Well, look at that sturdy, quiet, dignified and pleasant face and you will
see the face of one of the most popular men that ever lived in the confines
of old Dale County. He looked on daylight the first time on the 11th of
June, 1835, being born in Dallas county, Alabama, to Benjamin and Charity
Moseley. In January, 1856, he moved to Dale County. While being
brought up
he was educated mostly between the plow handles, receiving certification of
graduation in muleology and digology and other studies of like kind and
character. He was an apt student and stood high and was perhaps about the
head of his class. In 1857, after finishing school, as a young man he
married Miss Nancy White and started a school of his own and Buck Moseley
was his first pupil, and Buck did well. To this marriage two children were
born. Shortly after the last of the two children was born his first wife
died, and in 1867 he married Miss Nancy Pritchett, and they are now living
just as happy as two old people could in his pretty country home, two miles
above Ozark. Mr. Moseley about ten years ago, joined the Baptist church
and
he is a strong man in that church and very much loved. He is also an
ardent
Mason, which order he prides in very much. Mr. Moseley went to the war,
fighting in the 33rd Alabama regiment, to which regiment he belonged.
Resigning that regiment he came home for a while and then returned to the
war, joining the 53rd Alabama Cavalry, holding the office of Lieutenant
during the war. He surrendered with his company at Columbia, South
Carolina. Mr. Moseley is a strong party man and he has now been elected
twice as commissioner. He has made a very faithful officer. He was
one of
the moving spirits that secured the building of our present fine court house
and he is very proud of that fact, and though some tried to use that as an
electioneering scheme to defeat him, the people endorsed him by electing
him to the office by good majority. Uncle Lewis Moseley is universally
popular with nearly everybody, and one of the best horse traders that ever
hit the grit. He has a heart as big as he is and loves everybody and
everybody loves him. We are proud of him and feel rejoiced that we have
such a man in our midst and that he belongs to our citizenship. When you
strike him he is ever ready to advocate the best morals of the country and
whatever is for the best of Dale, that he stands for and we are sure we
voice the sentiment of all when we say Lewis Moseley is a fine man.
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