Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887, Jessamine Co. WILLIAM G. MOSELEY, second son of George S. and Martha (McCabe) Moseley, was born in Jessamine County April 9, 1849. His grandfather, Robert Moseley, was the son of Col. John Moseley, an early settler of Jessamine County. Robert was born in Jessamine County in 1797 and died in 1884. Col. John Moseley was born in Powhatan County, Va.; he settled on Clear Creek, near the village of Keene, in the year 1796, and was the father of twenty-one children. He was one of those few who could be witty without giving offense, and wherever you found him he was always the same merry companion. The following is a list of his children by his first wife: Edward, born in Virginia in 1793; Ephraim, 1795; Robert, 1797 (after the family settled in Jessamine County): John J., 1800; Garrard, 1802; William B., 1805; Thomas, 1806; Phillip, 1808; Arthur, 1811; George S., 1813; Betsey, 1815; Joseph, 1816 (died same date); James, 1817; Peter, 1818; Samuel H., 1821; Henry C., 1823 (once sheriff); Mary H., 1825; Joanna, 1827; Martha E., 1830; Daniel, 1831; George W., 1834. Co. Moseley died in 1848 at the age of eighty-two years. William G. Mosely, the great-grandson of Col. John Moseley, was deputy sheriff of Jessamine County for a number of years. Mr. Moseley is now engaged in selling agricultural implements in Nicholasville, Ky. In 1879 he was married to Miss Sallie Smith, youngest daughter of Milton C. Smith, by whom he has one child, a daughter. Mr. Moseley is descended, on his paternal grandfather's side, from the Huguenots of France, who settled in Virginia at the time of edict of Nantes was revoked by Louis XIV in 1685; Scotch and Irish on the maternal side. Moseley McCabe Smith = Powhatan-VA France http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/jessamine/moseley.wg.txt