The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-06
NANCY E. MOODY, FOUNDER OF STATE
 W. 6. T. U., DEAD
Descendant of Old and Respect ed Family Well Known
 Here.

Mrs. Nancy E11zaD6tht MOOdy,s WHO organized the Wornan's Christian Temperance Union in this state and who was a sister. of the late Dr. Chas. E. Sanford of this city. died Friday at Pequahuck near Waterbury. Her death occurred just five days after the death of her venerable and dis tfnguished brother, Dr. Sanford. She was 90 years of age. For a number of years she had resided with her daughter, Mrs.e Bessie M. Scott, at whose home her death occurred.
 Mrs. Moody was one of the most widely known workers in the cause of temperance in New England and a. pioneer, in the endeavor to secure leg. islation restricting the sale of intoxi- cants in this state. Her funeral on Monday was attended by many men and women who are prominent in the temperance movement as well as many relatives and friends.
 Mrs. Moody enjoyed the distinction of having been the frs woman to speak from the pulpit of the Center church in Hartford and one of the first to address a congregation in the Old, Davenport church in New Ias- ven.
 Tn the fall Of 1875. J. C. Brown. edi-. tor of a state temperance paper pub lished at Midd1etown, Issued a call for a prohibition convention to be held in that city. The seWoman's Crusade. in the west had become an item of. interest in the daily newspapers and
 Mrs. Moody became interested:
 The ". e. T. Uz had, been organized in Cleveland in August of the year be- fore and when the call for the prohibit ton convention was issued Mrs. Moo dy thought it would be a great op- port unity to organize a branch in this state.
 Accordingly, she consulted Editor Brown and he published in this news paper q call from one of the prom fnent women of the state. 7, The result was that at the convention January z6, 1875, the Connections branch. of the w. e. T. D.. was organized. Mrs. Moody was asked to act as president but did not feel able to ass1irne the duties of. the office. She did act, however, until Miss Juliet Barrett of West Haven, was made the first ac- tive president of the organization Vice presidents were chosen for ev-s cry county and Mrs. Moody accepted for Hartford county She became one of the most eloquent speakers for the movement and wherever she ap- peared in the state the orgaalzation of branches of the w. C. T. U quick 1y followed. She personally organiz- ed the unions at, Hartford, Southing- ton, Plantsviliey Unionvi1le, Kensfng ton Windsor Locks and Bristol.
 
 committees of the legislature in favor Of measures for the suppression of the lfquor traffic and it was largely through her efforts that the act for bidding the sale of liquor within half "a mile of any fair grounds was pass sed. In support of this measure she appeared before the legislators with her bible in her hand. At the con clusion of her address on that occa-. sion one legislator was impressed with her argument that he gave her $10 to aid fin the temperance causes
 When Frances Willard. then secrc- tary of the National Union, spoke in New Britain, Mrs. Moody forned a friendship with her which was Iife- long. At that meeting Mrs. Moody assisted in the organization of the New Britain union.
 Mrs. Moody was born in North Ha- ven, August 29, 1924. She was the daughter of E1ida Sanford, deacon for years in Dr. TrumbulPs church in Abbott descendant of two Connectf-s cut governors, Haines and Willis, and one Massachusetts governor, Dudley
 She was married on Thanksgiving Day, November 29, 1844 to r.KGseorse A. Moody of P1ainvil1e, a graduate of Yale Medical school The second day after. their marriage they took up their residence in Plainville where Mrs. Moody lived for 65 years. Her late years were spent at Pequabuck Mrs. Moody is survived by one daagh- ter. Mrs. Scott; two sons, pr. Charles w. Moody of Plainvi1le and Dr. Henry A. Moody of Pequabuck; two grand sons, Walter N. Scott of Pequabuck. an instructor at Yale Scientific school town, and one granddaughter, Miss Helen B. Scott of PeQuabuck