In Memoriam - Dr. Joe M. Moody

Joe Marshall Moody, M.D. went home to be with the Lord on Friday, July 3, 2020. He passed away peacefully at home, in College Station, Brazos County, Texas, with his wife and daughter by his side. He was born at home in Dyersburg, Dyer County, Tennessee, on August 3, 1924, to Dr. Alexander Harris Moody and Mary "Madie" Madison Tipton Moody. As the youngest child, he grew up with one sister and three brothers and attended local Dyersburg schools. By profession of faith, in the Lord Jesus Christ, he was baptized at the First Baptist Church of Dyersburg at age eleven on May 12, 1935. After graduating high school in 1942, he attended the University of Tennessee at Knoxville for pre-med and after 3 years, entered medical school at The University of Tennessee at Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee. He married his high school sweetheart, Nan Vaughn, on September 23, 1945. After graduating from medical school in 1947, he was an intern at Wayne County General Hospital in Eloise, Michigan. In July 1949, he practiced general medicine for two years with his brother in Dyersburg, Tennessee.

In Memoriam - Oliver Thomas Cochran Sr.

OLIVER THOMAS COCHRAN SR., 89, a native Houstonian, passed away peacefully in his home to join his Father in Heaven on May 22, 2020. Oliver was delivered on March 8, 1931 by his Grandfather Dr. J. T. Oliver and was the first baby delivered in his Grandfather's newly owned Parkview Hospital on Harrisburg. Years later Oliver and his Father established Parkview Pharmacy across the street from the hospital, where Oliver worked as the pharmacist, his Mother ran the soda fountain and his Father was the accountant. They went on to run 6 more pharmacies in the greater Houston area.

Oliver attended Park Place Elementary, San Marcos Academy, Deady Junior High School, Stephen F. Austin High School, University of Texas and received the Merck Award for scholarship and his Pharmacy Degree from the University of Houston in 1953. At Stephen F. Austin he was the football team quarterback, track manager, on the swimming team and voted Most Popular Senior. Most important of all is that is where he met his high school sweetheart and future bride, Dorothy Jean Gideon.

Patriot Ancestor - History of the family of Major Thomas Blair of Guilford County, North Carolina

I am a descendant of Major Thomas Blair who married the widow, Jane Ruth McCuiston in about 1763 in the part of Rowan County, North Carolina that became Guilford County in 1771.  I descend from their daughter, Martha Blair, born February 12, 1771 in Guilford County, NC, who married her first cousin, John Blair, born October 22, 1767 in the part of Rowan County, NC. that became Guilford county in 1771.  John and Martha Blair married on April 27, 1790 in Guilford County, North Carolina, and soon moved to Logan County, Kentucky, and then to Tennessee, first settling in Davidson County where her brothers, John Calhoun Blair and Samuel Ruth Blair had settled about 1785.  Samuel Ruth Blair also participated in the American Revolution, and in his War Pension File there is an affidavit stating that Martha Blair was a sister of Samuel Ruth Blair. 

Patriot Ancestor - William Adams

Parents:      William James Adams and Lydia Martin
Birth:          1733, County Antrim, Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Death:         November 27, 1799, York County, South Carolina, USA
Wife:           Margaret Ewart
Parents:       Robert Ewart and Catherine Catherwood
Birth:           1746
Married:      North Carolina 1765
Death:         1824
Children:     Francis Adams, Kathrine Adams (Carrigan), Jean H. Adams (Campbell),
                    Robert E. Adams, James S. Adams, William Adams, Jr., Rachel Adams,
                    (Barnett), Margaret Adams (Watson), Joseph R. Adams, Elizabeth Adams,
                    John B. Adams

In 1740 William Adams age 7 moved with his family from Ireland to the American Colonies. They were part of the waves of Presbyterian Scots-Irish immigrants moving to America. These Scots-Irish immigrants were seeking religious freedom from taxation by the British Government for support of the established Anglican Church of England and the liberty to allow them to practice their Presbyterianism. This Scots-Irish migration of nearly 500,000 to the American Colonies, by the time of the American Revolution, would become a major part of its military core. Unoccupied prior to 1730, the Virginia and Carolina Piedmont areas were settled by these people as they began to come down the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road from Pennsylvania and other parts of America . By 1750 they had moved into North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee.

Patriot Ancestor - Joseph Fuqua

5th Virginia Regiment
Birth: 4 May 1756, Lunenburg County, Virginia
Death: 4 May 1829, Bedford County, Virginia

The settler who gave the town of Liberty his land, and Texas his sons. Born on May 4, 1756 and dying May 4 seventy-three years later, Joseph Fuqua led a generally quiet life as a farmer and family man. He is remembered in Bedford today for an outstanding act of generosity he shared with another man who went on to obscurity. Joseph Fuqua and
William Downing donated the 100 acres that became the site of the town established in 1782 as Liberty. He had fought in the Revolutionary War before settling in this area, enlisting Feb.22, 1776 and fighting in the battles of Cowpens and Brandywine. He was discharged in 1778.

Memorial Service for Lewis Mangum Jr., Saturday, March 13, 2020 @ 11:00AM

Lewis Mangum, Jr. passed away on February 13, 2020, and was cremated.  Visitation with the family is at 10.00 a.m. on Saturday, March 13, 2020 at the Pearland Methodist Church located at 2314 North Grand Blvd., which is just off FR-518 south of the rail-road tracks. The easiest way to get to the church is to take the Sam Houston toll road to Cullen and go south on Cullen to FR-518, then turn left and drive one block to North Grand Blvd. Take a left turn on North Grand Blvd. and the Methodist Church is on the left.  The memorial service is at the Pearland Methodist Church beginning at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 13, 2020. The phone number of the Pearland Methodist Church is 281-485-1466.

Dinner Meeting - Tuesday, January 28, 2020 @ 6:30PM

We look forward to seeing many of you at our member meeting on Tuesday Jan. 28th @ 6:30pm at Sweetwater Country Club.

Our speaker for this meeting will be David H. Falloure. David has authored 3 books on the Texas ports and ship channel, and worked on a PBS documentary about the Houston Ship Channel: Deep Water Centennial. David has an online blog about Brands in History (brandsinhistory.com).

If you are planning to attend please contact Lovell Aldrich at 281-451-4547 to RSVP.