Biography of Peter Moody, pages 743 / 744.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Peter Moody, was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, Sept. 11, 1824, the eldest 
of ten children of Peter and Nancy (While) Moody.  The former was a native 
Waynesburg. Pa., and when twenty years of age came to Ohio where he was 
subsequently married to the above.  She was a daughter of James White who 
immigrated from Ireland to Ohio a short time previous to the birth of Mrs. 
Moody, where he taught school for many years.  Mr. Moody followed farming in 
Ohio until 1840 when he removed his family to De Kalb County, Ind., where he 
entered seventy-two acres of Government land in Richland Township, which he 
cleared and improved, and resided here until 1871, when he sold out and 
removed to Noble County, and purchased a farm where he passed the balance of 
his days and where his widow now resides at he age of eight-four years.  
When our subject was sixteen years of age he came with his parents to De 
Kalb County, remaining with them until he was twenty-six years of age.  He 
was married Nov. 13, 1850, to Miss Matilda M. Barnes, a daughter of Edmund 
and Susan H. (Beardsley) Barnes, who were native of New York and came to 
Ohio when Mrs. Moody was three years old, and to Lagrange County, Ind., in 
1844.  Mr. Moody had cleared and improved several farms in Richland 
Township, and in 1869 he settled on the place where he now resides, which 
is one of the finest in the township.  To Mr. and Mrs. Moody were born 
five children; three are now living---Mary E., Ida I., and Frank B.  The 
deceased are: John R., and one died in infancy.

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