Re: DESPERATE - Re: Gaither A. Moses, Dave & Frances Helmes Mosses - Cmcamidge
Subject: Re: DESPERATE - Re: Gaither A. Moses, Dave & Frances Helmes Mosses
From: Cmcamidge
Date: February 23, 1999

Hello and I hope I'm doing this right (this is my first mailing on Rootsweb
Moses-L).  Please be forgiving!
	My name is Carolyn Moses Camidge and I am "attempting" to research my
ancestry - beginning primarily with my grandfather, Gaither A. Moses.  I know
very little - only that:
	* he was born around 1890 (possibly in NC, perhaps Burke County - or he may
have been born in upstate South Carolina or even in Tennessee - I just don't
know!)
	* he was born to Dave and Frances Helmes Mosses (as listed on Gaither's
marriage certificate;
	* he married my grandmother, Mary Lee Moses on Nov. 12, 1935 in Lincoln
County, Lincolnton, NC;
	* he lived in Lincolnton, NC (High Shoals/Long Shoals area) for awhile prior
to 1935 and just after 1935);
	HERE IS WHERE WE LOSE HIM -
	* Shortly after he married grandmother, one of my uncles who didn't like
Gaither pretty much ran him off.  He is rumored to have gone to Bessemer City,
NC (Gaston County) to live and eventually remarried, after having sent for my
grandmother - but she wouldn't leave her family to go with him.  Therefore, my
father grew up NEVER knowing his father and does not know where his own father
is buried!  Sad, eh!
	* I have pounded the pavement - searched various register of deeds and
libraries, census records (although they really can't help me with Gaither
because they stop in 1920 and I know where he was in 1935 - I need to know
where he last resided AFTER 1935 and where he died and is buried.
	*  The only concrete evidence I have found is his marriage certificate to
grandmother in 1935 (which is how I found out my grandparents' names, Dave
Mosses and Francis Helmes Mosses) and a death certificate for (must be) his
sister, Moice J. Mosses, she died in Gastonia, 3/13/1917 of Bright's disease;
died in Gaston County, buried somewhere in Bessemer City, NC.
	* the last facts that I know about Gaither is that he once lived for awhile
somewhere in Tennessee, he had Moses relatives in upstate SC (one, possibly a
sister, owned a farm), that he had two other sisters, Ruth and Lola and was
close with Bess Cook - possibly Bynum Cook - the Cook family.
	I apologize for the length of this e-mail but am DESPERATE to find Gaither's
grave before my father, James William Moses, passes away.  It means so much to
our entire family - if anyone can help, please, please respond to Carolyn at
email:  [email protected].  Thank you all!      Carolyn
	

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