Martha Ann Moody

Martha married James Charles Thomas Hardwick [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Megan Elizabeth Hardwick

Notes:

Oswan Benjamin Moody, lawyer, who lived and practiced in Lindsay, Okla.. received his law degree from the Univ. of Oklahoma. He was a member of t4e State Bar Assn.; the Rotary Club, of which he served as State President; Order of Beaver Boy Scout Hm.; and REA. He was a member of the Methodist Church and served on its Board of Directors. His wife, Helen Davis Moody, was a B.S. graduate of the Univ. of Oklahoma.

Oswan married Mary Helen Davis on 10 Jan 1933 in Lindsay, Garvin County, OK. Mary (daughter of David John Davis and Bessie Gaines) was born on 11 Aug 1910 in Greenwood, Sebastain County, AR; died on 26 Aug 1952; was buried in Lindsay, Garvin County, OK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

David John Davis, was a business man, owner of dry goods business and hotels. He was a 33d Degree Mason and a past Master of Greenwood., Arkansas Lodge. He was active on the Board of the Methodist Church and was Chairman of the local draft board, World War I in Greenwood, Ark. Bessie Gaines., wife of Mr. Davis, attended Galloway College of Searcy, Ark. and taught school in Greenwood for several years. She now (1971) lives with her daughter, Elizabeth, Mrs. Harold W. Aldridge, in Manchester, Okla.

David married Bessie Gaines on 16 Aug 1909 in Greenwood, Sebastian County, AR. Bessie (daughter of Marshall Strother Gaines and Rebecca Ann Hodgens) was born on 6 Nov 1882 in Greenwood, Sebastian County, AR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Greenwood, Sebastian County, AR

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Greenwood, Sebastian County, AR
• Occupation: 1900, Greenwood, Sebastian County, AR; commercial traveler

Notes:

Marshall Strother Gaines was educated in Fayetteville, Ark. and began clerking in a store in that city at the age of eighteen. After several years he moved to Greenwood, Ark. and established a mercantile business of his own. In 1883 he formed a partnership with Thos. E. Little and the firm was named L & G. This company continued until December 1887 when the partnership was dissolved by mutual agreement and the firm became M. S. Gaines and Company. Their stock of merchandise was the largest in Greenwood and the business was successful. He was a Democrat; a member of the school board of Greenwood. for six years; a Master Mason; a K of H; and he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. (The foregoing was adapted from History of North West Arkansas - author unknown; publisher and date of publication, unknown.)

Marshall married Rebecca Ann Hodgens on 25 May 1877 in Greenwood, Sebastain County, AR. Rebecca (daughter of Joseph Hodgens and Martha Elizabeth) was born in 1861 in Mississippi; died on 20 Mar 1887 in Greenwood, Sebastian County, AR; was buried in Greenwood Cem., Greenwood, Sebastian County, AR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]