WILLIAM W. MOSES,
Appointed superintendent of the Virginia Penitentiary in December,
1885, and still holding that position, was born in Cumberland county,
Virginia, on April 11, 1836. He attended a private school in Appomattox
county, and then began farming which he has followed to date.
He settled in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, married in that county, on
January 7, 1866, was six years a justice of the peace in that county,
and four years member of the district school board. He entered the
Confederate States army as a private in Company K, 14th Tennessee
Infantry; was wounded at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862; was
taken prisoner at Gettysburg, and held at Fort Delaware twenty-two
months, then paroled.
Joseph M. Moses, father of William W., son of Peter Moses, of England,
was born in Appomattox county, and died in 1879, aged sixty-five
years. The mother of William W., Paulina J. Martin, born in
Prince Edward county, died July 10, 1858. His wife, born in Pittsylvania
county, is Fannie W., daughter of Jeremiah W. Graves, who
died in 1882, and Catharine (Baxley) Graves, also now deceased. Mr.
and Mrs. Moses have three children, Wm. W., jr., Graves M., Kate O.,
and have buried two, Dula W., died July, 1873, aged one year; Joseph
M., died February, 1878, aged ten months. Mr. Moses and wife are
members of the Second Baptist Church of Richmond.
