moseley Family History & Genealogy

Sandra Amanda (Svendsen) Moseley was born to Grace G. Karlsen and Haakon Svendsen, and has siblings Amanda S. Stevenson, John Richard Svendsen, and Stewart Haakon Svendsen. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Sandra Amanda (Svendsen) Moseley.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Betty Moseley.

I married James Willett Moseley on September 15th, 1962 in Fort Lee New Jersey. We were married by the Mayor of Fort Lee, NJ and had a party that night at the Hotel Astor. My name was Sandra Amanda Svendsen Moseley. We had a long Honeymoon. Our first stop was to visit his partner, Gray Barker in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Then we went to North Carolina to visit his Mom's former housekeeper, Mrs. Gaskill. Then we visited his old Nanny, Miss Agatha Graits who warned me that Jim Moseley was the cheapest and meanest man on Planet Earth. That proved to be true. Then we visited New Orleans where we met with Lee Harvey Oswald. (Jim had spent a lot of time going to Cuba.) Then we went to Mexico for the next five months where he wouldn't pay one dollar a day for air-conditioning. He bought a jade pre-Colombian piece in Mexico. He devoted his entire adult life to studying flying saucers but never believed in them. He spent all of his time debunking anyone who encountered UFO's. He had access to the Pentagon, [I was with him] and was given the assignment to debunk everyone who talked about UFO's. He had eleven million dollars and lost ten million dollars on the stock market making bad investments. His trusted CPA accountants made sure that this multimillionaire's daughter inherited $34,000. He would humiliate waitresses and cab drivers by giving them dime tips. He pretended to be a lifelong Democrat but he was secretly a Republican. He was a dedicated atheist and on his 75th birthday he "regretted being smug" about his atheism because he lived in constant fear of death. He put his daughter [disabled because she was given LSD twice by his girlfriend's daughters] on Social Security at the age of 19, and made sure she was homeless until he died when she was 48 and he was 81. When I paid for a one-bedroom apartment for her for 6 months in advance, her father told her to leave town, and she did. So she remained homeless for another 25 years. Jim's father was General George Van Horn Moseley and his mother was Florence Barber Moseley of the Barber Steamship Company. He wrote books about flying saucers and grave robbing in Peru. Jim purposely spelled my name wrong because he did not want his 7 grandchildren [who were all adopted as soon as they were born] to know anything about me. He never had a real job and never earned a living. He lived on a trust fund and old family investments. In 1964 he met the Amazing Randi, a magician, and decided he wanted to get a divorce so he could travel around the world with James Randi. [Who is now legally married to another man]. But after his divorce, James Randi went to Ecuador with Jim Moseley but brought along his own teenage traveling companion and had no plans of traveling around the world with Jim Moseley. In 1965, I immediately continued my new career as a writer, and within a year, I was a co-author of a child care book in hardcover and paperback with Dr. Albert Ellis and Dr. Janet L. Wolfe. Jim told everybody that I was a waitress which was never true. I have had a long career as a Handwriting Analyst [The World's Funniest Handwriting Analyst"] and later a Document Examiner and have been in Who's Who in America for over 20 years. Jim died in Key West, Florida and after having a quick funeral with no attendees, he was cremated. His only daughter received $34,000 in payment for her 29 years of loyalty to him as a homeless woman who kept her artwork in the trunk of his car. His divorce agreement with me said he would put half of his money in trust for her, [about 5 and a half million dollars] but his New York CPA accountants (father and son) told him not to put any money in trust for her, so he didn't. His son made her use a lawyer of his choice and that lawyer got $110,000. She got $34,000.

Married Janet Ella Symonds, on 3rd May 1919 at Yankalilla.

Virginia Douglas Moseley was born in 1917. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Virginia Douglas Moseley.

Married Denis Howells on May 5th 1945 at Adelaide.

Mary Ann (Beckner) Moseley was born in Kentucky United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mary Ann (Beckner) Moseley.

John Preston Moseley Sr was born on October 17, 1836 in Ohio County, Kentucky United States of America, and died at age 100 years old on November 26, 1936. John Moseley was buried at Cates Cemetery in Whitesville, Daviess County. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John Preston Moseley.

Elizabeth Barber Moseley was born on October 6, 1963 at Englewood, NJ. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Elizabeth Barber Moseley.

Phillip May Moseley was born on November 11, 1904 in philpot, daviess County, Kentucky us, and died at age 70 years old on July 10, 1975 in louisville, jefferson County. Phillip Moseley was buried in 1975 at cates cemetery in whitesville, daviess County. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Phillip May Moseley.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Jacqueline Cerveny Moseley.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Sheila D. Moseley.

Curtis C. Moseley was born to Jacqueline Cerveny Moseley and Willis W. Overstreet, and has siblings Emmett J. Moseley and Sheila D. Moseley. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Curtis C. Moseley.

Marvin L Moseley of Harris County, TX was born on May 17, 1944, and died at age 53 years old on November 10, 1997 in Temple, Bell County.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Emmett J. Moseley.

Louella Alma (Stinnett) Moseley was born on July 13, 1875 in Daviess County, Kentucky United States of America, and died at age 82 years old on March 7, 1958 in Evansville, Warren County, IN. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Louella Alma (Stinnett) Moseley.

Carol (Purvines) Moseley was born on February 22, 1946 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan United States to Edna Mary (Byrnes) Purvines and John M Purvines, and had siblings Joan (Purvines) Beckwith and Lynn Margaret Purvines. Carol Moseley died at age 71 years old on August 3, 2017 in Hopewell, VA. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Carol (Purvines) Moseley.

Henrietta Elizabeth (Moseley) Edbrooke of Sandringham, City of Bayside County, VIC Australia was born on June 4, 1868 in Glenelg, City of Holdfast Bay County, SA, and died at age 43 years old on January 30, 1912 in Sandringham, City of Bayside County, VIC.

George Van Horn Moseley (General) MG George Van Horn Moseley Born September 28, 1874 Evanston, Illinois Died November 7, 1960 (aged 86) Fulton County, Georgia Allegiance United States of America Service/branch Emblem of the United States Department of the Army.svg United States Army Years of service 1899–1938 Rank US-O8 insignia.svg Major General Commands held Third United States Army 1st Cavalry Division Battles/wars Spanish–American War Pancho Villa Expedition World War I Awards Distinguished Service Medal (2) Legion of Honor Croix de guerre Order of the Bath Belgian Order of the Crown Order of the Crown of Italy George Van Horn Moseley (September 28, 1874 – November 7, 1960) was a United States Army general. Following his retirement in 1938, he became controversial for his fiercely right-wing anti-immigrant and antisemitic views. These views were not shared by his son James Willett Moseley, nor James Moseley's former wife Sandra Moseley (Amanda S. Stevenson) nor their daughter Elizabeth Barber Moseley or his seven grandchildren by Elizabeth Moseley who all turned out to be Liberals who loved Jewish people and immigrants and were Democrats and despised General Moseley's reactionary anti-Semitic and anti-Immigration politics. George Van Horn Moseley was born in Evanston, Illinois, on September 28, 1874. He was graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1899 and was commissioned second lieutenant in the cavalry. He served in the Philippines twice, from 1900 to 1903 and 1906 to 1907, where his assignments included commanding a troop of the 1st Cavalry and serving as Aide-de-Camp to Generals J. M. Bell and J. M. Lee. In 1901 Moseley, accompanied by only one other officer, without escort and under conditions of great danger, penetrated a major Philippine insurgent stronghold. 2nd Lt. Moseley and 1st Lt. George Curry convinced Brigadier General Ludovico Arejola to sign the peace agreement in Taban, Minalabac (Philippines) on 25 March 1901. The honor graduate of the Army School of the Line in 1908, he also was graduated from the Army Staff College in 1909 and the Army War College in 1911. During World War I, Moseley served as assistant chief of staff for logistics (G-4) on the staff of the American Expeditionary Force headquarters. Moseley married the wealthy twice married Mrs. Florence Barber DuBois in July 1930. They had one child, James Willett Moseley. General Moseley held camp and Washington assignments from 1920–1929. He was a member of several important commissions, including the Harbord Commission to investigate Armenian issues. After commanding the Second Field Artillery Brigade, in 1921 he was detailed as assistant to General Dawes in organizing the newly created Bureau of the Budget. In 1921 he was promoted brigadier general, Regular Army. Commanding the 1st Cavalry Division (1927–1929), he successfully interceded, under fire, with principals in a 1929 Mexican insurrection. His actions stopped stray gunfire from Juarez, Mexico, from endangering life and property in adjacent El Paso, Texas, and precluded further incidents. In 1931 he was promoted major general, Regular Army. He was the executive for the Assistant Secretary of War, from 1929 to 1930 and Deputy Chief of Staff of Army from 1930 to 1933. He served as General Douglas MacArthur's Deputy Chief of Staff during the 1932 Bonus March on Washington, D.C., in the course of which he recorded his fears of a Communist conspiracy against the United States. His racist beliefs were considered psychotic by his entire family and his second wife Florence Barber Moseley divorced him. In 1934, he asked MacArthur to consider the immigration issue in terms of military manpower, contrasting a group of "southern lads" of "good Anglo-Saxon stock" with their counterparts from the North with names "difficult to pronounce" that "indicated foreign blood". Moseley linked the latter to labor problems and "so much trouble in our schools and colleges." MacArthur expressed skepticism in response to Moseley's argument that "It is a question of whether or not the old blood that built this fine nation ... is to continue to administer that nation, or whether that old stock is going to be destroyed or bred out by a lot of foreign blood which the melting pot has not touched." He was Commanding General of the 5th Corps Area, from 1933 to 1934 and 4th Corps Area from 1934 to 1936. His final assignment was as commander of the Third United States Army from 1936 to 1938. He proposed a "worldwide policy which will result in breeding all Jewish blood out of the human race." His son James W. Moseley had so many Jewish friends that his father left him a dollar in his Last Will! Luckily, he never met me (his daughter-in-law) because I learned Yiddish, love and respect Jews and my attitude would've given the nasty old man a heart attack. (Amanda S. Stevenson, mother of Elizabeth). In 1951, the president of Piedmont College in Georgia invited Moseley to speak. Students and faculty protested because of his racist views. TIME called him a "trumpeter for Aryan supremacy." One faculty member was fired for speaking in opposition to the speaking engagement. Calls for the president's resignation followed. Almost the entire faculty and 9 trustees resigned in the next two years and enrollment fell by two thirds. But they named a street after Moseley and made sure it was in an African-American neighborhood. In 1959, Moseley was one of the founders of Americans for Constitutional Action, an anti-Semitic successor to America First. He also had a secret right-wing group called, The American Revolutionary Army. (I read Moseley's letters.) In retirement he lived at the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. He died on November 7, 1960. (Jim said he cursed the Jews, had a heart attack and died. (Oh, Goody!) Moseley had three sons. He married Alice Dodds in 1902 and married Florence Barber DuBois in July 1930. Alice was mother to George & Francis, Florence was mother to James Willett Moseley. She died in 1951 of stomach cancer. Moseley's son, Colonel George Van Horn Moseley, Jr. led the 502d Parachute Infantry Regiment into Normandy in 1944 and broke his leg. Francis L. Moseley was an inventor and Vice President at the Hewlett-Packard Company. His grandson George Van Horn Moseley III warned the government about the Japanese taking over too many industries and was immediately murdered in D.C. according to his Japanese wife. James W. Moseley was a longstanding figure in the UFO enthusiast community. James lived off his mother's trust fund and never worked a day in his life. After he forced his wife to divorce him in 1965 he spent the entire rest of his life never hearing the words "I Love You." He lost 11 million dollars through bad investments. He bragged that he had seven grandchildren and gave them nothing.

Anna Moseley was born in 1839. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Anna Moseley.