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 ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== Go To: #, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, Main |