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Note: CENSUS: Name: Thomas E Moseley Age in 1860: 22
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1860: Not Stated, Mercer, Kentucky
Gender: Male
Post Office: Harrodsburg
Roll: M653_387
Page: 0
Year: 1860
Head of Household: Phillip M Mosely
Household Phillip M Mosely 51 1808 Kentucky Male
Nancy H Mosely 49 1810 Kentucky Female
Lucretia J Mosely 19 1840 Kentucky Female
Phillip M Mosely 18 1841 Kentucky Male
Martha Mosely 15 1844 Kentucky Female
Louisa Mosely 14 1845 Kentucky Female
Parilee Mosely 13 1846 Kentucky Female
Robert Mosely 10 1849 Kentucky Male
Thomas E Moseley 22 1837 Kentucky Male
James L Moseley 21 1838 Kentucky Male
CENSUS: Name: Thomas E Moseley
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1836
Age in 1870: 34
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1870: Prairie, Lincoln, Missouri
Gender: Male
Post Office: Cuivre
Roll: M593_788
Page: 172
Image: 347
Year: 1870
BIOGRAPHY: From Judy Moseley:
BIOGRAPHY: Second cousins on their mothers' sides.
BIOGRAPHY: Thomas was found on the tax rolls of Mercer County in the years 1861 and 1862. In 1861, he was enrolled in the state militia, had no land, but paid tax on one horse. In 1862, he still owned no land, but paid taxes on corn, wheat, and two horses. His total evaluation was $100. Another interesting fact was found on the tax roles of Mercer. On a question about the number of free white persons being blind in the family, Thomas answered "1." Later in his life, he spent years completely blind. One wonders how long he had trouble seeing, and how bad was the trouble? It has not been discovered that Thomas served in the Civil War. It is thought at this time that he did not. Neither the state of Kentucky nor the state of Illinois where he later lived has any record of his Civil War military service. Perhaps the lack of good eyesight also entered into this decision. In 1863, Thomas E. paid no tax, indicating that he was probably no longer in Mercer County. He and Sarah have not yet been found from May, 1862, when their oldest child was born in Keene, Jessamine County, Kentucky, until the 1870 federal census when they were in Lincoln County, Missouri, near Thomas's parents. According to that census, other children born during that time period were born in the state of Illinois. It is assumed, therefore, that the family spent those years with Thomas's parents in Edgar County, Illinois, and that their children were born in that county.
BIOGRAPHY: In 1876, when his father died, Thomas gave his residence as Carthage, Missouri. Still moving west, the family was intact in Neosho for the 1880 census, when Thomas listed his occupation as a carpenter, but about that year, Sarah died. She was only forty-five years old. She was buried, according to Thomas's obituary, at Neosho. Her grave has not been located. The year Thomas E. and his family left Neosho is not known, but an obituary for his son, William, gave the year of his arrival in Ft. Smith, Arkansas, as 1886. Since William would have been, at that time, twenty-two years old, it is possible that he went there alone, but it is also possible that the entire family moved into Arkansas that year. There was no federal census preserved for the year 1890, but that
year, there was a Phil Moseley listed in the Ft. Smith City Directory as living there. His job was as a clerk for L. D. Dillinger. Several of the next years' directories are then missing, but for the year 1894, one listed Thomas E., farmer, living with J. Roscoe, painter, Phillip J., clerk at John Emrich, and Thomas B., painter at A. J. Ingle.
BIOGRAPHY: At a residence only a block away was living William R, laborer. (William had been married in 1887.) Although Thomas E. was not listed with his family in the 1897 directory, he was there again in 1898 with no occupational indication. He was living with his son, Roscoe. His son, William, was shown at a residence at which was boarded Thomas E.'s daughter, Rose, and "Miss May Moseley." This could, of course, be his other daughter, Lily Mary, or a woman from another of the extended Moseley family.
BIOGRAPHY: Thomas spent the rest of his life living with one relative or another, whoever could take him in at the time. In 1900, he was found on the federal census living with his sister, Lucretia, and her husband, James Proctor, in Grundy County, Missouri. By the 1910 census, he had moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, to live with his daughter, Rose Mann, and her husband of seven years, William. Later, he lived with his son Phillip and his family and then his son Ross and his family. Some of his grandchildren have memories of leading their grandfather around while he was living with their family because he was blind. Thomas died on 2 October 1924, at the age of 87, in Coffeyville, Kansas, and is buried there in the Fairview Cemetery. The minister from the First Christian Church conducted the services. According to his newspaper obituary in the Coffeyville Daily Journal of that same date, he had moved to Coffeyville eighteen months before from Ft. Smith, Arkansas, to live with his son John Ross. It listed Thomas as a retired farmer, and mentioned that he had been almost totally blind for seven years. He was survived by only four of his children.
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