His mom was Sara Ema "Ema" Weaver, she died about 1904 & we have not located a grave for her yet...

My grandparents are Gold Star Parents, grandma was one of 1st Gold Star Mom's in & after WWII, thier son S1c Waldo Stedem Hale was a POW killed in Japanese POW Camp 14 Dec 1944, check Waldo's Find A Grave Memorial for more info......

Moss & Bertie met when she was 16 & Moss was working on her dad's farm, they married in July 1910 & had 9 children: Clyde(b: Dec 1911), Earl Frank, Woodrow Wilson, Waldo Stedem(after doctor who delivered him), Dorothy Delpha, Pearle Marie, Margaret Christina, Junior Lee, LaVerna Irene* ...

per his obit probably published in local Saybrook Newspaper in 1958: Saybrook--Kelly Moss Hale, 68, Saybrook, died at 5PM Friday (July 18, 1958) in the Gibson Community Hospital, Gibson City, Ford Co, Illinois.

Funeral services will be at 2PM Monday at the Saybrook Evangelical United Brethren Church, Rev. Willis Locke officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Saybrook, McLean Co, Illinois. Friends may call after 7PM Saturday at the Easterbrook Funeral Home, Saybrook.

Mr. Hale was born July 15, 1890 in Andersonville, Anderson Co, Tennessee, son of Joseph and Sara Emma* Weaver - Hale. He married Bertie M. Spangler on July 18, 1910 in Tennessee. The couple moved to Illinois in 1911 and spent the rest of their lives around Saybrook and Arrowsmith.

He leaves his wife, four sons, Clyde and Earl of Saybrook, Woodrow of Detroit, Mich., Moss Jr.(Junior Lee), Marietta, Ga.; 3 daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Porter, Saybrook, Mrs Margaret Hinton, Danville, and Mrs Irene Hinton, Rantoul, 3 brothers, Ed, Saybrook, Ernest(Deck), Powell Station, TN, and John, Bell Gardens, CA, 1 sis, Celiea Weaver, Kankakee, 3 half sisters, Edith, Maude and Ollie all of Tennessee and 14 grandchildren.

Moss Kelly was raised in the Primative Baptist Church in TN as a child, when he & Bertie moved to IL the closest denomination they found was Evangelical United Brethren.....his dad, uncle, etc etc were all ministers or elders of the church

He also told one of my older cousins that we were "Black Dutch" from Eastern TN....after researching this, it could also mean Melugeon or tri-racial(white, Indian & black mix) family lines.....