The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-31
A Family Reunion.

|
January 18th, 1S47, Charles Hilary
| Moseley, a handsome, stalWart young
/ Virginia planter of the olden type,
claimed as his bride Sara Marable, a
fair daughter of the Old Dominion,
whose twenty summers had just serV-
| ed to ripen those charms and graces-
physical intellectual and moral, which
have always characterized and yet are
the glory of Southern womanhood.
! The young couple, descendants OF
| families we'll known and highly es-
teemed in their section, settled upon
| an estate of the groom s." Oakland
in Halifax county, and making there
| a home typical of the Old SouthS best,
liver for forty years on the pleasant
| hill near the Dan, after the manner
of gentle folk of their class and sta
| tion,-winning the friendship and en-
| loving the confidence and esteem OF
IaH who knew them. To them were
born seven sons and three daughters,
| OF whom the eldest died in early IN
fancy and another, Maude-lived but
| a few years With these exceptions,
the immediate family circle is still
| unbroker1 without a death for more
! than forty years. The other children
grew to manhood and womanhood and
went forth to the pursuit of their
| chosen vocations, scattering over three
States with homes widely separated.
| But a peculiarly of this family is the
strength of the affection and sympathy
which binds the brothers and sisters
to each other and all to 1.-The old folk
at home" Were il not for their
clearly traced lineage from immortal
halls midst IIngland's oaks, one might
| suppose their ancestors were kits and
| tartan in the Highlands, so deep and
constant is their clan fellowship. And
| this tie voiced itself on July 18th,
| 1904, when the family gathered in a
reunion at "Belleview," the pleasant
home of the aged couple in Charlotte
| county, where they reside together
with three of their sons.
1t would require the technique of
the artist, the swift sure insight of the
poet, the vocabulary and the genius
of the trained and ready writer to de-
pict that scene beneath the great oaks
or on the piazzas of the old country
house, as strong men and lovely Wo-
men and merry children grouped
themselves about the venerable father
and mother or clustered here and
there to enjoy some bon mot, or scat
tered over the grassy slope in rollick-
| ing games.
And as for those feastS beneath the
murmuring leaves of the wide spread
| ing boughs-it was by acts,-strict at
! tention to the business of the hour,
not by words that justice could be
| done to the occasion and something
like fitting acknowledgement made of
the skill of Sister Thomasa' and her
corps of helpers. Real Virginia nos
| pitality,-that expresses 1T.
Fun and frolic were marshals OF
the feeting hours; love ruled supreme,
land joy filled the cup of each heart
1 To give a full roster of this family eX-
ltending through four generations, OF
to mention all the guests who made
merry together, would be tax alike
upon space and patience; therefore
only the immediate connections pres
ent are named:
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hilary Nose
ley their sons, Hilary Clifton Moseley
Naruna, Va; Henry Emerson Moseley
I"Belleview, Va; Thomas Bedford
Moseley, Raleigh, N. c.; Charles Arch
er Moseley, Charlotte, n. c.; George
Gilmer Moseley, "Belleview," Va.
Richard Eric Moseley. "Belleview,'
Va; their daughters, Mrs. Ella Nose
ley Lipscomb, Greenville, N. c.; Mrs
Sara Moseley oliver, Florence, S. CT
their daughters-in-lay, Mrs II. G.
Moseley, Naruna, Va; Mrs. c. A
Moseley, Charlotte, N. c.; Mrs. G.. G
Moseley, "Belleview," Va; their sons
in-law William T. Lipscomb, Green
vile, n. c.; William B. Oliver, Flor
ence S. c.; of the grand children
Misses Maujer, Sara, Adelaide, Ella
and Jane Moseley; Lucy and Sara
oliver; Messrs. Charles A. Jr.; Thorn
as, Douglas and Maury Moseley; G.
Moseley and Will oliver. Other rela-
| tives: Mrs Fannie Thomas, Danville
Va, and Mrs. Lou b. Moseley, Moss
| ingford, Va, sisters of Mrs. G. H.
Moseley Miss Virgie Hughes, Danville
Va; Mr. Walter Moseley, Misses Belle
and Eliza Moseley, Jeffries, Va; Miss
Terra milestone, Woodville, Miss.
There were present also many
friends and neighbors who added
much to the festivity and pleasure OF
the occasion.
An incident that lent solemn joy
BUSINESS to this happy gathering oc-
Cured on Sunday preceding-the
18th. The family, most of whom had
already arrived, and a number of
Ineighbors seated themselves under the
large oaks in front of the house. with
the blacks to the number of 20 OF
more grouped behind them, and divine
services were conducted by Rev. Will
3. Oliver, pastor of the First Baptist
| church of Florence, S. G.. At the close
of the service, Mr.. II. Clifton Moseley
and two bright, sweet young ladies'
| Belle and Eliza Moseley, made public
confession of faith IN christ. AFTER
another sermon in the afternoon, Mr..
Oliver led his brother-in-law down
| into a little creek flowing near by and,
with scores of relatives and friends
as witnesses, buried him with Christ
| in baptism 1t needed but this act
on the part of her oldest son to fill
| the aged mothers cup of rejoicing,
and all of her children are now pro-
/ fesSed Christians.
| Mr. Moseley is now 81 years of age;
his wife is three years his junior. I'M
| I'll quite recently they were both mar
vellously strong and active. Now
| both are quite feeble, though they
| still retain all their faculties and
powers to an unusual degree, and 6heir
loved ones look forward with hope
fulness to another gathering of fhe
| clan next summer.