Account of Early Moses Family, as written in her 85^th year by

Marietta Moses Lee (8) Aunt Etta

My father, Thomas Moses, was born February 25, 1806, in Yorkshire, England. Little is known of his people. He lived with his grandmother until she died. He went to work very young as all children then did. He never went to school, ( the children did not have privileges as now) so what he accumulated was by hard work.

My mother, Jane Coleman (Coulman) was born in a little fishing village called Pattronton (or Paltronton) Haven, England. Her mother died when she was eleven years old. She had one brother and he drowned while young. Her sister married and went to Australia. Mother heard from her for a time. Mother thought she would soon find her sister when she got to America. She did not realize what a big place America is.

Then father and mother made up their minds to come to America. They had six children and another was born three weeks after they landed. I think they started the first of March in the year 1849. They had a very stormy voyage. They were six weeks crossing the Atlantic. Mother said the mountains of foam would strike the ship, nearly scaring her to death.

After the baby (Lucy) was born, father came on into Pennsylvania where he knew some people, and then went back after the family, and he bought what is still the old homestead, now (1939) owned by his grandson, Oscar T. Moses. They had eleven children. One died in England and sister Ida died at four years old. Sister Jennie died at nineteen years of age in 1864. The remainder lived to a good old age. Three of the six were in the Civil War but were spared to return. Two made homes for themselves in the far west (Minnesota) and raised good sized families. And I, in my eighty-fifth year, am the last one of the family.

Marietta Moses Lee