This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mosby Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hMB.2ACI/354.519.1 Message Board Post: I don't think this is your bunch, but here are the Mosby names in the book. HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY. 353 JAMES W. MOSBEY (Farmer and Stock-raiser, Post-office Liberty) The Mosby family is originally of Virginia, and Gen. Mosby of Confederate fame, is one of its prominent representatives. The subject of the present sketch, however, comes of a Kentucky branch of the family. He was a son of Wade Mosby, a native of Woodford county, Kentucky. The father removed to Clay county, Missouri, as early as 1824. He was a farmer by occupation and died here in 1857. The mother, who was a Miss Rebecca Shouse before her marriage, died in 1865. James W. Mosby was born October 1, 1836, and was reared in this county. He was brought up a farmer, and in 1860 was married to Miss Sue Riley, a daughter of Alfred M. Riley, an early settler of Clay county. The result of this union has been one child, Charles, who is now a youth, twenty-four years of age. Mr. and Mrs. M. are members of the Christian Church. Mr. Mosby has a good farm of 320 acres, a half mile from Robinson’s Station, on the H. & St. Jo. Railroad, and is Comfortably situated. He breeds and deal! s in short horn cattle and feeds cattle and hogs for the wholesale market; in fact, he is quite a stock dealer, and is satisfactorily successful. He has always taken quite an interest in schools and does much to keep up a high standard of efficiency in the schools of his vicinity. CHARLES MOSBY (Farmer and Fine &tock.raiser, Fost.office, Liberty). Mr. Mosby is a son of James W. Mosby and was born on his father’s homestead in this county in October, 1861. He was reared on a farm and in 1881, at the age of twenty, or, rather in his twenty-first year, he was married to Miss Jennie Grooms, a daughter of Capt. John S. Grooms, an old and prominent citizen of this county. Mr. and Mrs. M. have two children, James F. and John G. Mr. Mosby was reared a farmer and stock-raiser and has continued in the calling to which he was brought up. He has a handsome farm of 300 acres, situated two miles and a half north of Liberty, which is substantially and comfortably improved. He makes a specialty of raising fine Polland-Angus cattle and has a handsome herd of that breed of stock. On several of his stock he has been awarded premiums at different fairs. At the head of his herd he has a fine bull, Byron, imported from Scotland. Mr. Mosby also fattens a number of beef cattle and quite a number of hogs each winter for the wholesale m! arkets. He is a farmer of enterprise and a man of good education. He was educated at William Jewell College, and afterwards took a course at Jacksonville Business College. Mr. M. is one of the prominent young farmers of the county. He has excellent young stock for sale at all times. JOHN H. MOSBY (Farmer, Stock-raiser and Stock-dealer, Post-office, Liberty). Mr. Mosby parents, Wade and Rebecca Mosby, came to Clay county from Kentucky in 1822. They made this their permanent home, the father being a farmer by occupation. John H. was born after the family settled here, in 1824. Reared in this county, he was married in 1855 to Miss Sarah Hall. Meanwhile he had been to California and returned. He went overland to the Pacific coast in 1850, and was absent about two years. While there he was principally engaged in mining. Most of the time he was on the Yuba, in the vicinity of Nevada City, but for a time was on the Poor Man’s creek, which was then thought to be of little or no value as a mining district, but which afterwards was found to have some of the richest deposits in the country, and became a wealthy mining region. Returning in 1852, Mr. Mosby engaged in farming and stock-raising in this county. His whole time, for the past 30 years, has been busily occupied with his farming and stock interests. He has a large farm of 60! 0 acres, one of the best farms in Fishing River township, and he is extensively engaged in raising and dealing in stock. He has a handsome herd of short horn cattle, and feeds annually about 100 head of beef cattle, besides a large number of marketable hogs. Mr. Mosby is one of the leading farmers and stock-raisers of this part of the county, and is in comfortable circumstances. His place is well improved, including a handsome residence, erected in 1871, at a cost of $5,000. He also has large and comfortable barns and other outbuildings, and his lands are mainly devoted to blue grass for stock pasturage, but enough is reserved for grain for the ordinary purposes of stock raising. Mr. and Mrs. Moshy have a family of five children: Addie, the wife of Charles Dye; Ettie, Ida, Gertie and William. They have lost three: Edgar, Mamie and Ernest. Mr. and Mrs. M. are members of the Christian Church. DEWILTON MOSBY (Farmer and Stock-raiser, Post-office, Liberty). Mr. Mosby’s farm contains 560 acres, and, like his cousin John H., he makes a specialty of the stock business. He fattens for the markets annually from 50 to 75 head of cattle and a large number of hogs. August 23, 1873, he was married to Miss Martha M. Archer, of this county. They have five children: Jesse D., Rosa L., Emmet A., Nicholas and Bonnie M. Nicholas was named for his grandfather, Nicholas Mosby, who came to this county from Kentucky in 1837. Nicholas Mosby, the elder, was born in Woodiord county, that State, and was reared in Kentucky, where he married Miss Mary Shouse. Some years afterwards he came to Missouri and settled in Clay county. He was an energetic farmer, and soon became comfortably situated. His son, Dewilton Mosby, the subject of this sketch, was born in Kentucky, April 23, 1825, and was about 12 years of age when the family came to Clay county. He was reared on a farm, and in 1846 enlisted for the Mexican War. He served under Col. Doniphan and was honorably discharged at New Orleans after the final defeat of the Mexicans. He then came home and resumed farming. In 1850 he went to California, driving an ox team across the plains, and five months were occupied with the trip. After his return again he went to farming, and has followed it ever since. ALBERT G. MOSBY (Farmer and Stock raiser, Post office, Frathersville) The subject of this sketch is a brother to IDewilton Mosby, already mentioned, and was born in Woodford county, Ky , in 1829 He was therefore in childhood when his parents came to Missouri, in 1833, and settled in Clay county. Brought up in that county in that early day, he, of course, had to experience hard woik incident to Western farm life — improving land, and farming before the era of farm machinery, and when everything done had to be done by hard work While this was pretty severe on some who had no taste for straightforward manual labor, to the subject of this sketch it was not as disagreeable as might be expected. He was early trained that the most honest way to make a living was by honest industry, and that if he hoped to succeed in life, without reproach, the surest and safest course was to rely upon honest labor. Accordingly, he came up a hard-working, upright man, which he has ever since continued to be. He has relied on his own exertions alone for success! , and has not been disappointed. Now, and for years past, he has been comfortably situated on a good farm, where he has every necessary convenience to make life a satisfaction and pleasure. His place contains about 640 acres, and besides raising large quantities of grain and other products, he feeds annually for the wholesale markets about 150 head of beef cattle, and nearly an equal number of hogs. His farm is mainly run in blue grass for stock purposes. In 1850 Mr. Mosby was married to Miss Mary A. lodges, daughter of Judge W. V. Hodges, of this county, but formerly of Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Mosby have six children: Eva M., now the wife of William T. Pixley; Lunette, now the wife of Dr. C. B. Hardin; George A., Lee J., John H. and James D. Mr. and Mrs. M. are members of the Primitive Baptist Church. Mr. Mosby also has a large grain farm in the Missouri river bottoms in this county.