Jefferson Davis Moses ^{1 2 3}

  General Notes:

The Moses family record state that Jefferson Davis Moses was a soldier in the Confederate States Army in the war between the states. He enlisted at Lewisburg, VA on 27 Jan 1862, Co. K, 14th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry. On Jan. 29, 1863 he was transferred to Co. E, 60th Reg. Va. Inf. and on the roll of that Company dated April 30, 1863 he was reported: "Deserter, went home on furlough of 20 days March 2nd and never returned." His name is not borne on subsequent rolls on file which cover period to Dec.31, 1864, and no later record as a member of this organization has been found.

Stories are still told in the family about the hardships and trials at that time and how the women, who were left at home while their men folks were in the armies, had to hide their provisions in woodpiles and other places, as the homes were often raided by soldiers for food.

It is claimed in the Moses family that Jefferson Davis Moses, as was also his brothers, sympathetic to the Federal Government, but was compelled to join the Confederate States Army as Greenbrier County was still a part of Virginia. When Greenbrier County joined the other Western counties and became a separate state in 1863, he then was under the jurisdiction of West Virginia and the people thereof, for the most part, were Federalists. This would account for him being called a "Deserter" from the Confederate Army.

After the Civil War Jefferson Davis Moses settled at Grand Rapids, Michigan (about 1866). He worked in a saw mill and died there from injuries which he received at the saw mill. His age at time of death in 1870 was 35 years.
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  Death Notes:

Name: Jefferson Moses
Event Type: Death
Event Date: Mar 1870
Event Place: Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States
Event Place: Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 35
Race: W
Birth Year (Estimated): 1835
Birthplace: Virginia
Affiliate Publication Number: T1164
Affiliate Publication Title: Nonpopulation Census Schedules for Michigan, 1850-1880.
Affiliate Film Number: 75

Citing this Record
"Michigan Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLZG-7VLT : 20 August 2019), Jefferson Moses, 1870.
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  Noted events in his life were:

• He has alternate birth date of 1833 and a birth location of Virginia.

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• He appeared on the 1860 US Census in , Floyd County, VA on 19 July 1860. ²

1860 US Census
Page 105, Family 707, Roll 1345
, Floyd County, Virginia, United States
Jefferson D. Moses..27..Virginia

(Living with wife and 2 children.)

NOTE - If his birth date was in 1835, then his age should have been 24 or 25 instead of 27.
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• Death Image: 23 March 1870, in Grand Rapids, MI.

Jefferson married Elizabeth Halferty, daughter of Arthur Halferty and Maria Lightfoot, on 6 May 1856 in , Lee County, IA.¹ (Elizabeth Halferty was born on 24 March 1832 in York County, PA ^{2 4} and died on 26 January 1892 in , Wheeler County, NE.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1860 US Census in , Floyd County, VA on 19 July 1860. ²

1860 US Census
Page 105, Family 707, Roll 1345
, Floyd County, Virginia, United States
Jefferson D. Moses..27..Virginia
Elizabeth Moses..28..[Blank]
Vina Moses..3..[Blank]
Herndon T. Moses..7m..[Blank]
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  Marriage Notes:

Name: Jefferson D. Moses
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 06 May 1856
Event Place: , Lee, Iowa, United States
Gender: Male
Spouse's Name: Elizabeth Halferty
Spouse's Gender: Female

Citing this Record
"Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XJHH-DQ8 : 4 November 2017), Jefferson D. Moses and Elizabeth Halferty, 06 May 1856, , Lee, Iowa, United States; citing reference , county courthouses, Iowa; FHL microfilm 959,168.
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After being married in Iowa in 1856, the couple quickly moved to Virginia where they appeared in the 1860 US Census along with their first 2 children.
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