Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 457-459 [McCracken]

     MAJOR THOMAS E. MOSS was born in Greensburg, Green county,
Kentucky, March 14, 1839, and is a son of Thomas S. F. and Judith C.
(Bullock) Moss, the former of whom was a native of Perryville, Kentucky. 
When the father was a young man he came to Kentucky, was married, and
died there when about sixty-three years old.  He served as captain in
the war of 1812, and lived many years in Greensburg.
     Thomas E. Moss was reared in Greensburg.  His education was
received in the common schools and at Columbia College, Adair county,
Kentucky.  In 1858 he came to Paducah to take up the study of law, later
he entered the Louisville law school, from which he was graduated in
1860.
     At that time he opened an office at Paducah, but the war breaking
out, in 1861, he entered as a private in Company A, Second Kentucky
Infantry, Confederate army, and served throughout the entire war.  He
was made sergeant major of the regiment soon after its organization at
Camp Boone, and was promoted adjutant of the regiment for gallantry soon
after the battle of Fort Donelson, and in 1863 was made major of the
infantry.  He participated in many of the important battles, and after
the close of the conflict returned to Paducah and resumed the practice
of his profession.  In 1869 he was sent to the state legislature, and
again in 1881.  In 1875 he was elected attorney general for Kentucky and
served four years, ending in 1879.  Since last serving in the
legislature he has declined office, devoting himself to his profession,
and has won distinction as a criminal lawyer and in cases involving
titles.  In former years he was identified with many of the
public-spirited measures of Paducah, and latterly he has not been active
in public affairs on account of declining years and health.
     On February 28, 1871, he married Miss Margaret A. Bright, a
daughter of the late Senator James B. Bright, of Indiana.  Mrs. Moss is
a native of Madison, Indiana.  Four children have been born to them,
namely: Jesse Bright Moss, a lawyer of Paducah; Thomas F., a physician
and surgeon of Woodville, Kentucky; Marie Moss Wheat, of Salt Lake City,
a lawyer by profession and was the second woman admitted to the bar of
Kentucky; Marrie Sue, who died at the age of eighteen months.  Mr. Moss
is a Knight Templar, and was formerly very active in that order. 

Moss Bullock Bright Wheat
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Green-KY Adair-KY IN

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