Son of Barfield and Sallie Crawford Moody, husband of Ann Eliza Ellerbe.
"Thomas C. Moody, the fourth son of Barfield Moody, was in the Clerk's office as his father's deputy, at his father's death, in April, 1860 - when, as a matter of course, he had to retire. Asa Godbold, the then Ordinary, became Clerk until a successor was elected and qualified; this was the existing law then. An election for Clerk was ordered by the proper authorities to be held in June following. At this election the young deputy was a candidate for the office against five others, every one of whom was much more competent than "Tom", as he was called, and is so called yet; he was then 23 years of age, with but little education, no experience in such matters, a verdant, green, country youth - could not write legibly - yet led the ticket at the election by 70 votes.
Tom was again a candidate for Clerk, in 1872, and was elected, but the then powers that be counted every Democratic candidate (and all were elected) out. Tom kept improving as time advanced, and after the redemption of the State in 1876, he was elected to the lower House of the State Legislature; he served a term in that house, and in 1884 was nominated and elected Senator from the county in the Legislature; he served 4 years, and was again nominated and again elected to the Senate, in 1888, and served a second term, till 1892.
During Mr. Moody's first term in the Senate, or just before, he married Miss Eliza Ellerbe, a daughter of Captain W. S. Ellerbe, and sister to the late Governor Ellerbe; they had no children, and she died in 1896 or 1897; he did not marry till late in life, and he has not remarried; and lives a life of retirement and "splendid leisure," he having acquired a competency to live on; he is now 64 years of age.
T. C. Moody is a kind-hearted man and very considerate of the poor, and after he went out of the Clerk's office kept many a poor fellow from going to jail by going on his bond for his appearance at Court; his sympathies were not hard to arouse in favor of the distressed."
- Page 338, A History of Marion County
MARION - Former Senator Thomas C. Moody who has been in ill health for several months was taken suddenly worse today and is now supposed to be dying. Senator Moody has for many years been one the leading men of Marion. He is the brother-in-law of Congressman Ellerbe, Mayor Miles and of the late Governor Ellerbe. He is a widower and childless.
Published in The Dillon Herald, May 4, 1905
"Thomas C. Moody, the fourth son of Barfield Moody, was in the Clerk's office as his father's deputy, at his father's death, in April, 1860 - when, as a matter of course, he had to retire. Asa Godbold, the then Ordinary, became Clerk until a successor was elected and qualified; this was the existing law then. An election for Clerk was ordered by the proper authorities to be held in June following. At this election the young deputy was a candidate for the office against five others, every one of whom was much more competent than "Tom", as he was called, and is so called yet; he was then 23 years of age, with but little education, no experience in such matters, a verdant, green, country youth - could not write legibly - yet led the ticket at the election by 70 votes.
Tom was again a candidate for Clerk, in 1872, and was elected, but the then powers that be counted every Democratic candidate (and all were elected) out. Tom kept improving as time advanced, and after the redemption of the State in 1876, he was elected to the lower House of the State Legislature; he served a term in that house, and in 1884 was nominated and elected Senator from the county in the Legislature; he served 4 years, and was again nominated and again elected to the Senate, in 1888, and served a second term, till 1892.
During Mr. Moody's first term in the Senate, or just before, he married Miss Eliza Ellerbe, a daughter of Captain W. S. Ellerbe, and sister to the late Governor Ellerbe; they had no children, and she died in 1896 or 1897; he did not marry till late in life, and he has not remarried; and lives a life of retirement and "splendid leisure," he having acquired a competency to live on; he is now 64 years of age.
T. C. Moody is a kind-hearted man and very considerate of the poor, and after he went out of the Clerk's office kept many a poor fellow from going to jail by going on his bond for his appearance at Court; his sympathies were not hard to arouse in favor of the distressed."
- Page 338, A History of Marion County
MARION - Former Senator Thomas C. Moody who has been in ill health for several months was taken suddenly worse today and is now supposed to be dying. Senator Moody has for many years been one the leading men of Marion. He is the brother-in-law of Congressman Ellerbe, Mayor Miles and of the late Governor Ellerbe. He is a widower and childless.
Published in The Dillon Herald, May 4, 1905
Son of Barfield and Sallie Crawford Moody, husband of Ann Eliza Ellerbe.
"Thomas C. Moody, the fourth son of Barfield Moody, was in the Clerk's office as his father's deputy, at his father's death, in April, 1860 - when, as a matter of course, he had to retire. Asa Godbold, the then Ordinary, became Clerk until a successor was elected and qualified; this was the existing law then. An election for Clerk was ordered by the proper authorities to be held in June following. At this election the young deputy was a candidate for the office against five others, every one of whom was much more competent than "Tom", as he was called, and is so called yet; he was then 23 years of age, with but little education, no experience in such matters, a verdant, green, country youth - could not write legibly - yet led the ticket at the election by 70 votes.
Tom was again a candidate for Clerk, in 1872, and was elected, but the then powers that be counted every Democratic candidate (and all were elected) out. Tom kept improving as time advanced, and after the redemption of the State in 1876, he was elected to the lower House of the State Legislature; he served a term in that house, and in 1884 was nominated and elected Senator from the county in the Legislature; he served 4 years, and was again nominated and again elected to the Senate, in 1888, and served a second term, till 1892.
During Mr. Moody's first term in the Senate, or just before, he married Miss Eliza Ellerbe, a daughter of Captain W. S. Ellerbe, and sister to the late Governor Ellerbe; they had no children, and she died in 1896 or 1897; he did not marry till late in life, and he has not remarried; and lives a life of retirement and "splendid leisure," he having acquired a competency to live on; he is now 64 years of age.
T. C. Moody is a kind-hearted man and very considerate of the poor, and after he went out of the Clerk's office kept many a poor fellow from going to jail by going on his bond for his appearance at Court; his sympathies were not hard to arouse in favor of the distressed."
- Page 338, A History of Marion County
MARION - Former Senator Thomas C. Moody who has been in ill health for several months was taken suddenly worse today and is now supposed to be dying. Senator Moody has for many years been one the leading men of Marion. He is the brother-in-law of Congressman Ellerbe, Mayor Miles and of the late Governor Ellerbe. He is a widower and childless.
Published in The Dillon Herald, May 4, 1905
"Thomas C. Moody, the fourth son of Barfield Moody, was in the Clerk's office as his father's deputy, at his father's death, in April, 1860 - when, as a matter of course, he had to retire. Asa Godbold, the then Ordinary, became Clerk until a successor was elected and qualified; this was the existing law then. An election for Clerk was ordered by the proper authorities to be held in June following. At this election the young deputy was a candidate for the office against five others, every one of whom was much more competent than "Tom", as he was called, and is so called yet; he was then 23 years of age, with but little education, no experience in such matters, a verdant, green, country youth - could not write legibly - yet led the ticket at the election by 70 votes.
Tom was again a candidate for Clerk, in 1872, and was elected, but the then powers that be counted every Democratic candidate (and all were elected) out. Tom kept improving as time advanced, and after the redemption of the State in 1876, he was elected to the lower House of the State Legislature; he served a term in that house, and in 1884 was nominated and elected Senator from the county in the Legislature; he served 4 years, and was again nominated and again elected to the Senate, in 1888, and served a second term, till 1892.
During Mr. Moody's first term in the Senate, or just before, he married Miss Eliza Ellerbe, a daughter of Captain W. S. Ellerbe, and sister to the late Governor Ellerbe; they had no children, and she died in 1896 or 1897; he did not marry till late in life, and he has not remarried; and lives a life of retirement and "splendid leisure," he having acquired a competency to live on; he is now 64 years of age.
T. C. Moody is a kind-hearted man and very considerate of the poor, and after he went out of the Clerk's office kept many a poor fellow from going to jail by going on his bond for his appearance at Court; his sympathies were not hard to arouse in favor of the distressed."
- Page 338, A History of Marion County
MARION - Former Senator Thomas C. Moody who has been in ill health for several months was taken suddenly worse today and is now supposed to be dying. Senator Moody has for many years been one the leading men of Marion. He is the brother-in-law of Congressman Ellerbe, Mayor Miles and of the late Governor Ellerbe. He is a widower and childless.
Published in The Dillon Herald, May 4, 1905
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