Hello Group,
     I ran across your site quite by accident. Was so impressed and wanting to learn about your Moodys that I copied all 33 pages yesterday and read them all! I have a 3rd great grandmother by the name of Harriet Moody Welch. Her family history so far has been a heartache for me and I thought just maybe you folks would know something or know where to point me to. I will include what I do know about her and her family in just a bit. I also noticed that we share many of the same surnames and or places they were,ex: Harris,Andrews,Hickman, I sa a Cox reference,men who were in Kansas , the Iowa connection etc. Will explain more if anyone is interested for now though it is my Harriet that I am concerned about.
Harriet Moody/Modie was born April 15, 1825 ...now where I don't know...some censuses have Ohio, some have Va....because of not knowing who Harriets parents were I have no idea what line of Moodys I come from. Her husband John Welch came from Va.
I have a copy of Harriets marriage liscense to JOhn Welch . This took place in the state of Iowa on April 8,1857.(by the way her last name was spelled Modie...was this an error by the person transcribing the info? I don't know.)
John and Harriet had the following children, I list them because it may be a clue for someone out there.
Solomon aka Safalis
Shadrack Orlando, Mary, Margaret,Esther Jane, William and Julia.
Harriet died on Dec.9, 1896 I believe or could be 1898 . I took the dates off her headstone and the death year is hard to read, well the last number anyway.. Harriet is buried in The Miller Cemetery in New Providence, Iowa.
I have been to the Welch reunion here in Iowa and no one seems to know about Harriets parentage. One cousin has reasons to believ she was born in Va. Says her parents had slaves???
Well for now this is all I can think of.
Appreciate any help.
Jodi Mahan
Iowa