Hey guys - been a WHILE since I last posted (have had a VERY BUSY last year), but since I'm off today, I'd thought that I'd check on my family to see how everyone is doing & see if there's been any new info & I see that there most definately has been some new info.
To Jim, Janice & Laura - Hello!!! & welcome. I'm William "Bee/B" Edward Moody's ggranddaughter.
Mike, Uncle Jesse (Jesse Hickman Moody) & Aunt "Ella" (Luella Hickman Moody) were twins & they, as well as Aunt "Ceelie" (Celia Annie) were from the union of Hickman Moody & Mary Lou Anrews. That info came from my gmother Mildred Alice Moody Smith Sullins ("Bee/B" Moody's daughter).
Laura, as to your question on "Bee/B"'s nickname, the understanding that I was told was "that first & foremost Bee/B had a temper (red headed, figure that one out), he had a rather mean "pop" that made a man feel that he'd been "stung by a bunch of bees", & why & whoever it was that gave him that nickname, it's rather ironic that his father (James Moody) was killed from a wagon accident (James was on a brick loaded wagon that he & Bee/B were unloading, when the horses were spooked, James being on the wagon was trying to get the horses to stop or slow down, but the wagon turned over onto James. It was also said that there were some bees buzzing around the horses & that possibly one of the horses got stung. All in all, poor Bee/B witnessed all of this, & when James died, that left Bee/B as the head of the household at the age of 10 years old. I had asked my gmother if possibly Bee/B was nicknamed Billy as a young child, being that his name was William, & she stated that that was a very big possiblity & that everyone probably called him "B" for short, & that the older he got, the double "e" got added to it.