Obit: Corsicana Daily Sun 1943-12-30
VETERAN ATTORNEY, DAYTON MOSES, DIED FT.WORTH THURSDAY
FORMER COWHAND ROSE TO TOP RANK AMONG LAWYERS OF TEXAS
Fort Worth, Dec. 30.-9AP)Dayton Moses, 73-year-old 'dean" of the Tarrant county district attorney's staff and former Burnet county cowhand who rose to the top rank of Texads lawyers, died at 6:45 a.m. today.
The veteran attorney succumbed to shock comlications and internal injuries which resulted from an accident early Monday, Dec. 20. when he was knocked down by an autombile as he walked across a street near his home.
Mr. Moses illness cut short his plans for a family Christmas reunion. Three children could not be here-Miss Janet Rollins Moses, now employed by the Foreign Economic Administration in Lapaz, Bolivia; Mrs. Margaret Kemmeries, Nogales, Ariz; and a son, Lt. a prisoner of the Japanese in the Phillippines.
Besides Lt. Col. Moses, Miss Janet Rollins Moses and Mrs. Kemmeries, immediate survivors include two other sons, Harry B., Fort Wort; Tad of College Station; two other daughters, Mrs. Reba Hunn Boyd, and Mrs. Julia Hughes, Fort Wort; a sister, Mrs. Leon Oliver, Lampasas; and two brothers, Maj. Gen. andrew Moses, United States Army (retired), Washington, D.C.; and Martin W. Moses, Austin.
Mr. Moses, born on New Year;s Day of 1870 near Strickling, Burnet county, never lost his love for cattlement and the cattle county.
His legal career was highlingted by the prosecution of Sam Ross and Milt Good, whose murder trials mad West Texas history in the early 1920s, and by the even more widely publicized defense of the Rev. J. Frank Norris for the fatal shootin of a Fort Worth lumber dealer a few years earlier.
WORKED AS COWBOY
The young Moses attended Burnet county schools until he was 18, then went out on his own, working for three years as a cowboyin Archer county. Then he obtained appointment as a clerk in the general land office in Austin, serving under Commissioners W. L. McGoughey and A.J. Baker from 1891 to 1895. While there he attended night law classes at the University of Texas and was licensed to practice.
Returning to Burnet county, he was elected county attorney and re-elected in 1898 and 1900. Then in 1902 he was elected district attorney of the thirty-third judicial district, covering Burnet, Blanco, Gillespie, Kimble, Menard, Mason, San Saba and Llano counties. He was consistently re-elected and served until 1916, when he resigned to move to Fort Worth and become attorney for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Associatio. He held that post until 1937, resigning to enter private practice.
VETERAN ATTORNEY, DAYTON MOSES, DIED FT.WORTH THURSDAY
FORMER COWHAND ROSE TO TOP RANK AMONG LAWYERS OF TEXAS
Fort Worth, Dec. 30.-9AP)Dayton Moses, 73-year-old 'dean" of the Tarrant county district attorney's staff and former Burnet county cowhand who rose to the top rank of Texads lawyers, died at 6:45 a.m. today.
The veteran attorney succumbed to shock comlications and internal injuries which resulted from an accident early Monday, Dec. 20. when he was knocked down by an autombile as he walked across a street near his home.
Mr. Moses illness cut short his plans for a family Christmas reunion. Three children could not be here-Miss Janet Rollins Moses, now employed by the Foreign Economic Administration in Lapaz, Bolivia; Mrs. Margaret Kemmeries, Nogales, Ariz; and a son, Lt. a prisoner of the Japanese in the Phillippines.
Besides Lt. Col. Moses, Miss Janet Rollins Moses and Mrs. Kemmeries, immediate survivors include two other sons, Harry B., Fort Wort; Tad of College Station; two other daughters, Mrs. Reba Hunn Boyd, and Mrs. Julia Hughes, Fort Wort; a sister, Mrs. Leon Oliver, Lampasas; and two brothers, Maj. Gen. andrew Moses, United States Army (retired), Washington, D.C.; and Martin W. Moses, Austin.
Mr. Moses, born on New Year;s Day of 1870 near Strickling, Burnet county, never lost his love for cattlement and the cattle county.
His legal career was highlingted by the prosecution of Sam Ross and Milt Good, whose murder trials mad West Texas history in the early 1920s, and by the even more widely publicized defense of the Rev. J. Frank Norris for the fatal shootin of a Fort Worth lumber dealer a few years earlier.
WORKED AS COWBOY
The young Moses attended Burnet county schools until he was 18, then went out on his own, working for three years as a cowboyin Archer county. Then he obtained appointment as a clerk in the general land office in Austin, serving under Commissioners W. L. McGoughey and A.J. Baker from 1891 to 1895. While there he attended night law classes at the University of Texas and was licensed to practice.
Returning to Burnet county, he was elected county attorney and re-elected in 1898 and 1900. Then in 1902 he was elected district attorney of the thirty-third judicial district, covering Burnet, Blanco, Gillespie, Kimble, Menard, Mason, San Saba and Llano counties. He was consistently re-elected and served until 1916, when he resigned to move to Fort Worth and become attorney for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Associatio. He held that post until 1937, resigning to enter private practice.
Obit: Corsicana Daily Sun 1943-12-30
VETERAN ATTORNEY, DAYTON MOSES, DIED FT.WORTH THURSDAY
FORMER COWHAND ROSE TO TOP RANK AMONG LAWYERS OF TEXAS
Fort Worth, Dec. 30.-9AP)Dayton Moses, 73-year-old 'dean" of the Tarrant county district attorney's staff and former Burnet county cowhand who rose to the top rank of Texads lawyers, died at 6:45 a.m. today.
The veteran attorney succumbed to shock comlications and internal injuries which resulted from an accident early Monday, Dec. 20. when he was knocked down by an autombile as he walked across a street near his home.
Mr. Moses illness cut short his plans for a family Christmas reunion. Three children could not be here-Miss Janet Rollins Moses, now employed by the Foreign Economic Administration in Lapaz, Bolivia; Mrs. Margaret Kemmeries, Nogales, Ariz; and a son, Lt. a prisoner of the Japanese in the Phillippines.
Besides Lt. Col. Moses, Miss Janet Rollins Moses and Mrs. Kemmeries, immediate survivors include two other sons, Harry B., Fort Wort; Tad of College Station; two other daughters, Mrs. Reba Hunn Boyd, and Mrs. Julia Hughes, Fort Wort; a sister, Mrs. Leon Oliver, Lampasas; and two brothers, Maj. Gen. andrew Moses, United States Army (retired), Washington, D.C.; and Martin W. Moses, Austin.
Mr. Moses, born on New Year;s Day of 1870 near Strickling, Burnet county, never lost his love for cattlement and the cattle county.
His legal career was highlingted by the prosecution of Sam Ross and Milt Good, whose murder trials mad West Texas history in the early 1920s, and by the even more widely publicized defense of the Rev. J. Frank Norris for the fatal shootin of a Fort Worth lumber dealer a few years earlier.
WORKED AS COWBOY
The young Moses attended Burnet county schools until he was 18, then went out on his own, working for three years as a cowboyin Archer county. Then he obtained appointment as a clerk in the general land office in Austin, serving under Commissioners W. L. McGoughey and A.J. Baker from 1891 to 1895. While there he attended night law classes at the University of Texas and was licensed to practice.
Returning to Burnet county, he was elected county attorney and re-elected in 1898 and 1900. Then in 1902 he was elected district attorney of the thirty-third judicial district, covering Burnet, Blanco, Gillespie, Kimble, Menard, Mason, San Saba and Llano counties. He was consistently re-elected and served until 1916, when he resigned to move to Fort Worth and become attorney for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Associatio. He held that post until 1937, resigning to enter private practice.
VETERAN ATTORNEY, DAYTON MOSES, DIED FT.WORTH THURSDAY
FORMER COWHAND ROSE TO TOP RANK AMONG LAWYERS OF TEXAS
Fort Worth, Dec. 30.-9AP)Dayton Moses, 73-year-old 'dean" of the Tarrant county district attorney's staff and former Burnet county cowhand who rose to the top rank of Texads lawyers, died at 6:45 a.m. today.
The veteran attorney succumbed to shock comlications and internal injuries which resulted from an accident early Monday, Dec. 20. when he was knocked down by an autombile as he walked across a street near his home.
Mr. Moses illness cut short his plans for a family Christmas reunion. Three children could not be here-Miss Janet Rollins Moses, now employed by the Foreign Economic Administration in Lapaz, Bolivia; Mrs. Margaret Kemmeries, Nogales, Ariz; and a son, Lt. a prisoner of the Japanese in the Phillippines.
Besides Lt. Col. Moses, Miss Janet Rollins Moses and Mrs. Kemmeries, immediate survivors include two other sons, Harry B., Fort Wort; Tad of College Station; two other daughters, Mrs. Reba Hunn Boyd, and Mrs. Julia Hughes, Fort Wort; a sister, Mrs. Leon Oliver, Lampasas; and two brothers, Maj. Gen. andrew Moses, United States Army (retired), Washington, D.C.; and Martin W. Moses, Austin.
Mr. Moses, born on New Year;s Day of 1870 near Strickling, Burnet county, never lost his love for cattlement and the cattle county.
His legal career was highlingted by the prosecution of Sam Ross and Milt Good, whose murder trials mad West Texas history in the early 1920s, and by the even more widely publicized defense of the Rev. J. Frank Norris for the fatal shootin of a Fort Worth lumber dealer a few years earlier.
WORKED AS COWBOY
The young Moses attended Burnet county schools until he was 18, then went out on his own, working for three years as a cowboyin Archer county. Then he obtained appointment as a clerk in the general land office in Austin, serving under Commissioners W. L. McGoughey and A.J. Baker from 1891 to 1895. While there he attended night law classes at the University of Texas and was licensed to practice.
Returning to Burnet county, he was elected county attorney and re-elected in 1898 and 1900. Then in 1902 he was elected district attorney of the thirty-third judicial district, covering Burnet, Blanco, Gillespie, Kimble, Menard, Mason, San Saba and Llano counties. He was consistently re-elected and served until 1916, when he resigned to move to Fort Worth and become attorney for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Associatio. He held that post until 1937, resigning to enter private practice.
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