MOSE SLATON NUNLEY was born in Tishomingo Co. Ms. He was the seventh child of William M. Nunley and Amanda Jane Carpenter Nunley.
His first marriage was to a Mattie Bearden. They were married only a year or two and when she was trying to have her first child she died from complications as also did the baby.
He was visiting the Dick Hill family in Millington, Shelby Co. Tn. when he met and married a 13 year old orphaned living with the family. They married 11 November 1888. She gave him six children who were the following: Walter Virgil born November 30,1889 , Oliver Perry born July 11, 1891 in Colbert Co. Al., Minnie Alice born 1896, Ethyl, Elisie, and Myra Dewey born 1898. At the age of 27 Alice died from childbirthing compications. This was 1902. So far I have found no imformation about who her parents were.
Mose married again for a third time to Myra Lawerence Cooper. She had been married before and had three sons. Mose and Myra added to their children William, Della, Maudie, Napoleon, and Eunice Etta (Jo).
Mose died May 25, 1922 of tuburculosis. He is buried in the Nunley Cemetery which is close to the old home place and not far from the Carpenter/Nunley cemetery. |
