OBITUARY

John Tillman Moody, who on Tuesday of last week was stricken with paralysis, on Wednesday morning, Jan 16 (1924) answered the call to the Great Beyond. He was conscious during the few struggling hours in the care of Dr Welsh of Palatka, assisting Dr Williams and others able to render help, the entire family being with him when the end came.

Mr. Moody spent the greater part of his life as a respected citizen of Seville, always ready to assist in any good cause to up-build the community. He was born at Licskillet, near Jessup, GA Nov 1, 1864 and raised on a GA plantation in a family of nine children.

In Dec 1892, he joined a company coming to locate in Seville, driving a team of horses for his brother-in-law John Robinson. With his violin and good humor, he kept up a cheerful spirit for the crowd, making the long journey a pleasant one.

For a few years he worked for different ones until he saved enough money to buy several acres of land at the south end of Lake Maneta, setting out an orange grove and in Jul '86  was married to Miss Ela J. Prevatt. His grove was severely injured with the cold. He sold out and for twenty years lived in the present beautiful grove he leaves.

For the past several years his home has been at the valuable muck lands bought along the shores of Lake Louise. For three years he ran a grocery store, where many of the present citizens learned his honesty and worth as a pleasant man to deal with. The farm work was too heavy for him, but his love for it induced him to sell out the store and go back to it last July. the day before he was stricken he didn't feel very well, but stayed at his gardens instructing and joking with hired hands.

He had recently received his first degree as a Mason.

He leaves three sisters in GA; three brothers, Isaac of Brentwood, GA, Isam of Hastings, FL and George of Naranga, FL. The three brothers were able to come and see him.

Of his family he leaves a wife, two daughters, Mrs. Ray Woolwine and Mrs. Jim Gunter of Palatka, and one son, Junius, at home who, this winter entered high school.

Nearly the entire community showed their respects by attending the funeral services at the Baptist Church Thursday morning and with their floral offerings paid their last respects at the Seville Cemetery.