Have you checked the Soc. Sec. Death Index?  Felicia
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From: [email protected] 
To: [email protected] 
Date: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 12:52 AM
Subject: Re: DESPERATE - RE: Gaither A. Moses, Dave & Frances Helmes Mosses


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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