Biographies   Charleston County - South Carolina Genealogy Trails Judge Montgomery Moses Montgomery, the second son of Myer and Hetty P. Mosses, was born August 26, 1808, in Charleston, South Carolina. His father, Myer Moses, was distinguished as a man of letters, having written a history of the French Revolution. He was a member of the South Carolina Legislature and served as a major in the South Carolina regiment of troops in the War of 1812. Montgomery was educated in the schools of Charleston. For a while he was in business in New York. In 1832 he married Catherine Phillips, of Philadelphia. They had eight children, of whom five are living, namely, Doctor Franklin J. H. Claremount, Altamont, Arabella P., and Mrs. Gustavus Werver. In 1882 they celebrated their golden wedding in Newberry south Carolina, at which place they had resided for some years. Judge Moses having previously been the intendant of the village of Sumter, South Carolina, where he resided many years. He practiced law in Sumter with his brother, Franklin J. Moses, until the latter was elected judge in 1865. Montgomery was elected judge in 1871, and then went to Newberry to live, his death occurring there in 1886. Judge Moses served on the staff of Governor Aiken of South Carlina. He was devoted to his Masonic lodge, Claremont, No. 64, and was often its worshipful master. He was the grand high priest of the Royal Arch Chapter of Masons of South Carolina. Judge Moses was a perfect gentleman, a ripe scholar, and was gifted with a magnificent memory. His wife, Catherine, was a woman of lovely character, noted for her wide charities and for her devotion to the Confederate soldier. She lived until 1885, dying just a year before her husband. Source:  -South Carolina Bench and Bar, Volume One, pg 195, 1908 BACK to Charleston County SC Genealogy Trails © all rights - reserved to the original submitter