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Re: Rector and Moss

RECTOR, MOSS, BALLENTINE, PHILLIPS

Posted By: Mary Boyd (email)
Date: 11/11/2002 at 01:36:24

In Response To: Rector and Moss (Georgia Ferry)

From: Minburn Centennial History Book (1869-1969)

Surname: MOSS
Pg. 35-36: Out of the Past, by Clarence S. Hill (some random recollections, purely personal).
BOB MOSS
To all small boys, Bob Moss was a hero of the commonplace. In the days when WORK was not a naughty four-letter word, he took a back seat to no one. He chose the hardest and dirtiest jobs - like stacking straw - and did them well. Jack of all trades, he was a ditcher, carpenter, teamster, and operator of that great, fascinating contraption, a buzz-saw. He never sawed one stick at a time but grabbed a whole armful. His loud orders to the "off-bear" and to the men for "more wood" could be heard above the whine of the bouncing saw and the putt-putt of the boiling-hot gasoline engine.

With little or no "book-learnin", his was a keen observant mind with a sound philosophy of life. He worked hard, saved his money, seldom banked, but carried a big "roll" from which he would peel off several to loan to the worthy or give to the needy. More than cash, he had compassion. Long before the days of ESP (extra-sensory perception) he could "charm" off warts - some of them from the darndest places.

In his last years he hauled gravel and plowed gardens with his team of sorrel shetland ponies, probably deaf, for Bob shouted orders at them continuously. But they understood each other and gave their last ounce of strength when asked to move a load twice their size, or to thereby win a bet, which they invariably did. Bob had a colorful vocabulary including so very many Bible words. My mother tanned me once for repeating what I had heard Bob say when he dropped a hickory log on his foot. As I recall, it was: "Oh, Fiddle Faddle".

Bob would be pleased to know that, to the field of unselfish service to the community and to folks in need, Bill and Erma have perpetuated and magnified his own good reputation.

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