History and genealogy of Peter Montague, of Nansemond and ...

BRANCH OF HIS SON PETER. 1 47
She was a member of the Baptist church. He survived her less than-
three months, and d. at the advanced age of 85 years, Dec. 11, 1883,
leaving a large family. In this family there was a decidedly marked,
characteristic in the exalted love and esteem one bore for the other.
It was pre-eminently a happy family, where wrongs never invaded the
sacred precincts of the happy home. The pleasing spectacle of
devoted love of parents to child, and the requital of respect and
devotion, attracted the admiration of the visitor. Mrs. Moseley was
an estimable woman, well fitted to rear her large family, of which,
with her bright, cheerful, and joyous nature, she was the central
figure. She had traveled the journey of life with her devoted hus-
band, hand in hand and heart in heart, for nearly half a century of
their lives. Their feelings, tastes, desires, had become almost one,
and in writing of one it is difficult to separate the pair for " they
twain" had "become one flesh." The unity of love and feeling
between mother and father impressed itself upon the child. Both
were endowed by nature with a fine order of mind and had cultivated
literary tastes. They were both great readers to the time of their
death, and in neither was there perceptable impairment of mental
vigor. Mrs. Moseley in her old age could repeat with striking effect
in her animated conversation long stanzas from Scott's Marmion,
which she had learned in childhood. Both were good and true
people, such as are not met every day. Mr. Moseley, while a strict
business man and an independent thinker, was as kind and tender in
his emotions as a child, He was a great lover of truth and justice
and abhorred wrong. Just before his death, he remarked to a friend'
that he desired to be remembered only as one "who had dealt justly,
loved mercy, and walked humbly befoi-e God." What a legacy to his
children are these last words of a dying father, than which no prince
or potentate could leave a greater.
CHILDREN.
621. Nannie Rebecca, b. Oct. 25, 1827, in Powhatan Co., Va. She
///. May. 15, 1845. Aaron Gaston Byram,
who was b. Oct., 1815, in Merdahn town-
ship, New Jersey, where he d. June 11,
1882. She*/. Dec. 1 1,1845, only a few months
after her marriage. He never married again
after her death.
622. Sallie Ingram, b. Dec. 14, 1829.
623. Worthy Virginia, b. Oct. 25, 1831.