Hi, Laura and welcome to the discussion board.

I'll try to answer some of your questions where I actually know something of an answer. Hopefully others who are "listening in" can also help.

The picture of Jesse Hickman Moody farming is indeed your Jesse. That is one of my favorite pictures and we have Susan Moody Van Heusen to thank for it. It was taken about 1900, I think, before Jesse married and moved to Oklahoma. Later, of course, he moved the family back to Kaufman County.

According to the Social Security Death index, Robert Lowell Moody, who was born on Jan 20, 1954 died on June 11, 2005. His last residence was Prescott, Arizona.

I've seen Bee's name both ways, as a name and as an initial. His grave marker says: W. E. (B.) Moody. I've asked about where the name comes from and no one seems to know except that it came about probably so that he was not confused with his cousin, William Washington Moody. William W. Moody was Henry's son.

Susan is a descendant of Bee and kind of our expert. I am a descendant of Bee's younger (and Jesse Hickman's older) sister Nancy Jane who married Robert Mackey. By the way, just to add confusion, Bob Mackey's sister Mattie was the second wife of William Washington Moody, Bee and Jesse's cousin.

I believe the house is in Elmo near the lake and was Ira's.

In case you have not seen the Moody Family Genealogical Research Site, you might want to at
http://www.execuclean.com/moody/genealogy.htm
These things are never as up-to-date as we wish they could be. Any data you have to add would be appreciated.

Oh forgot - in case it is needed- my email address is laubauco@msn.com my hotmail one died long time ago. I live in Colorado Springs CO. Also--- I see on the family sheet that Robert Lowell Moody Jr is listed as having died in 2005 - can you tell me where he died and where this information came from? Last I knew, Bobby was living in Denver and I can find no obituary from a Denver newspaper. Thank you.

Mike - Hello - I am a cousin --- My great grandparents are Jesse Hickman Moody and Lavinia Comegys. Am Susan's cousin also -- don't ask me how many times removed and such it just confuses me. You have my grandmother Agatha Mae Moody Chapman's birth year incorrect - she was born March 24, 1912 not 1913. Thank you for spelling her middle name correctly! Love the pictures and I may never figure out who everyone is. One of the pictures is titled - Jesse Hickman Moody farming -- is that MY Jesse Hickman Moody (so many Jesse's and Hickman's so double checking) -- which one is he??? The Moody house in Terrell - to which Moody did it belong? I also thought "Bee" was "B" - more of an initial than the word. Can anyone clarify that one for me? Was thrilled to find your site...can't believe it took me a year to find it -- I've been a bit slow lately (more than usual) LOL. Cousin Laura

I received the photo from Sue and I have posted it to the Moody Album. It is a wonderful find, Sue. Thanks for sharing with us. Note: the photo is severely damaged and has been scotched tape together at least once. You'll see what I mean when you go to the album. It is posted to the album as Sue passed it along to me. I also went ahead and digitally tried to repair the worst of the damage, hopefully without detracting from any of the original content of the picture. Both the original and the repaired are posted to the album.

http://www.execuclean.com/family_tree/MOODY_album.htm

Sue mentioned in her email that the photo appears to the family to be an old studio-composite portrait. That's what it looks like to me, too.

mike@execuclean.com

I look forward to seeing it!

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Subject: The Genealogy of the Moody Family of Kaufman County
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:56:21 -0800




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What email address should I use for that picture? The one I used came bask undeliverable. Sue
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Guess what- while going thru my Knoy-Moody file this weekend I found a picture of Louella Hickman Moody Knoy and her husband William Joshua Knoy.I am emailing it to Mike -
Sue Clinton

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Correction made. There are two of her children who lived to adulthood we do not yet have pictures of. These are the two girls she had with Hickman: Luella and Celia Annie.

I work up such comparison-photos for my own purpose and sometimes share them, as I have this one. My personal purpose is to demonstrate the family traits, to see how facial features compare.
It is interesting to me to see how similar Henry and Jesse's features are and how different they are from their half-brother Albert. We can get an idea of the genetic infuence, if you will, that Hickman and James must have had on their off-spring and what they themselves might have looked like.
While I am not aware of Hickman's size, we do know from army enlistment records (14th Kansas Cavalry-USA) that Henry, the oldest brother, was a fairly tall man for the times at 5'10" but that James was only 5'4". (this Civil War data made available by Prof. Justin Sanders)
The WWI draft registration for Jesse Hickman, one of James' sons, indicates that he was a medium-built fellow who was medium in height. (It also tells us he had red hair.)(There is no draft registration record for Henry, his brother, no doubt because at the time he was a patient at the mental hospital and would spend the rest of his life there.) The grandson of James' oldest brother Henry, Roy, on the other hand was listed as "tall" as one would expect he might be with a father who, too, would have been considered tall in his day. Interesting to note, however, that Roy's brother, Floy, was only considered to be medium in height.

You are right. I stand corrected. I'll fix it.

Mike, the picture of the children of Mary Lou Moody.....you have Louella picture wrong. That is Mollie Louisa Moody JOnes. Mollie's parents are William and Celia Ann Cody Moody.

Several new photos have been added to the Moody photo album ( http://www.execuclean.com/family_tree/MOODY_album.htm ), including one recently shared by Janice. We now have pictures of all of Mary Lou Moody's children that lived to adulthood except Celia "Annie" Meek.

I guess you are talking about the pictures I refered to after you posted the three lookalike pictures of the moody men. In looking at them I saw a great resymbolence to my dad in the pictures of our family taken about 1947 and the one taken 1952. I know you have them in your many photos. It would stand to reason that there might be a likeness as dad was half Moody.

Thanks for posting the picture, Mike. It looks much better than I expected. I have transferred the funds for your book. My mailing address should show up on your receipt. I'm looking forward to reading it.

Louise, Herman was my uncle-my father's brother. He was kind of a jack-of-all-trades, so I wasn't surprised when Mike said he was driving a long haul truck. In his later years he had worm beds and would sell the worms to the locals for fishbait. He was one of those real characters who always had a funny story to tell(usually with a twinkle in his eye). The older girl you referred to was probably Christine. As far as I know she is still living in Kermit in her mom and dad's house.

I live in Odessa, TX, about 45 miles to the east of Kermit. I have one daughter, Laurie, and one son, David, and five grandchildren, ages 19, 11,11,11,and 10. Yes, they're triplets, so I know a little about dealing with multiples, too. Louise, you really do have your hands full, with the older kids and the babies as well. I am not working outside the home right now, so I pick up the triplets from school every day for my daughter and oversee homework, instrument practice, etc. Then the chaffeuring duties begin: to dance lessons, Tae Kwon Do class, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, etc, etc, etc. At least my busy time doesn't start until they get out of school! This is the first time I have felt that I had the time to start researching our family.

The picture of the Slaughter Family about 1907, in addition to some other new pictures, is now posted at the Moody family photo album http://www.execuclean.com/family_tree/MOODY_album.htm

The money may be sent to my Paypal account by referencing my email address: Mike@execuclean.com

Louise, send me that picture you were talking about and I will post it. Janice your picture will go up very soon, anotated with everybody's names.

Hi Janice�A;�A;I am the Louise Mike refers to in one of his messages. I have lost ready recall of our family tree since Mike has added so much lately. What relationship are you to Herman Slaughter? I remember visiting him once when I was about 8 or so. He had several sons and at least one daughter who was about 16 or 17. We went to White Sands to play in the sand I still have pictures of it. This was in Kermit Texas. I live in Oklahoma City and am 64 years old. I don't do research any more as I am rising my grandchildren now helping with three 11, 7, 6, and totally rising a set of twins 20 months old so I am quite busy, but I do check my email and try to answer it, so feel free to write anytime just wait for the answer. Louise�A;�A;�A;----- Original Message ----�A;From: QT - Janice Golden <qtopic+34-mGnHxSUsnUg@quicktopic.com>�A;To: QT topic subscribers <qtopic+subs@quicktopic.com>�A;Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 12:58:00 PM�A;Subject: The Genealogy of the Moody Family of Kaufman County�A;�A;�A;--QT-------------------------------------------------------------�A; Reply by email or visit�A; http://www.quicktopic.com/34/H/mGnHxSUsnUg/m190�A;--------------------------------------------------------------- -�A;�A;Hi Mike,�A;Thanks for your kind welcome. I have been looking at all the�A;photos, obits, etc. on the website. They are great! I had found�A;the (later) picture of Mary Louise Moody on the Kaufman County�A;"Kith and Kin" page and emailed Susan to thank her for posting�A;it, even though I didn't know if she uses that email address any�A;longer. It was only the second Moody ancestor photo I had ever�A;seen. I have one family photo of my grandparents, John C.�A;Slaughter and Sarah Francis Moody and six of their eight sons.�A;If you want it, I'll scan it and email it to you. �A;�A;As I said, I'm a REAL newbie to family research, although I have�A;always been interested in it. Back in the early 1970's, I tried�A;to pick the brains of my dad and his brothers at our family�A;reunion but I got very little information from them. I concluded�A;that there was a conspiracy among them to keep some deep, dark�A;family secret.:) Anyway, I really only started looking for�A;information in August and haven't input anything into a file�A;yet. I have been looking at genealogy software. Do most of you�A;use Family Tree Maker 10? Or do you recommend something else? I�A;am compiling our family's information and have asked my sisters,�A;brother and some cousins for their information so that it will�A;be as accurate as possible. When I get it into a file, I'll be�A;glad to send it to you. �A;�A;Re William Andrews and the "Old Three Hundred", I feel certain�A;that Mary Louise's father was too young to have been awarded a�A;land grant if he was indeed born in 1811. I was thinking maybe�A;her grandfather. That's why I asked if you had any information�A;farther back. �A;�A;Yes, my father's name was William. There was always some�A;confusion about which name came first. Social Security had it as�A;William Frank, but when he ordered his and my mom's marker, he�A;had Frank William put on it. He always went by Frank, though.�A;�A;I saw something on this message board about you writing a book�A;about the Moody family. I would really be interested in getting�A;one. And also something about a book you're working on now? Is�A;it about the Mackey family? �A;_________________________________________________________________�A;To unsubscribe: http://www.quicktopic.com/34/X/mGnHxSUsnUg�A;Start your own topic in 20 seconds: http://www.quicktopic.com |QT�A;�A;�A; �A;________________________________________________________________ ___________________�A;Sponsored Link�A;�A;Online degrees - find the right program to advance your career. �A;www.nextag.com