W. W. Mooney was born in Virginia in 1834 but lived most of his life in Tennessee where his father, William S. Mooney, had already moved the family in 1832 to Pelham in what was then Franklin County.
William was a law and literary graduate and worked as a school teacher and farmer throughout Middle Tennessee.
At the outbreak of the Civil War he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in Company D, 16th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA by D. R. Smythe on May 21, 1861 at Camp Harris, Franklin County, Tennessee.
He suffered from typhoid fever in the Fall of 1861 at Millboro Springs, Bath County, Virginia.
He was unable for duty in February of 1862 and not reelected in May of 1862 and was honorably released from service on 25 May 1862 at Corinth, Mississippi.
In 1873 he purchased Nimrod Hall in Bath County, Virginia from his father-in-law, John P. Porter, and sold it in 1874 to Dr. Henry E. Smith from Amherst County, Virginia.
He purchased over 350 acres southwest of Nashville, Tennessee in 1883. Owned land of what is now Forest Hills to the Nashville border. Owned lands bordering all of Otter Creek Road and Granny White Pike all the way to Hillsboro Road (then Mooney Lane). W. W. Mooney Sr.'s farm was called "Bosland".
He died on the 1st of June in 1895 at the age of 61 from exhaustion from a surgical operation at his town residence, 119 Belmont Avenue, Ward 10, 16th Avenue North, in the front room, upstairs, Nashville, Tennessee.
William was a law and literary graduate and worked as a school teacher and farmer throughout Middle Tennessee.
At the outbreak of the Civil War he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in Company D, 16th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA by D. R. Smythe on May 21, 1861 at Camp Harris, Franklin County, Tennessee.
He suffered from typhoid fever in the Fall of 1861 at Millboro Springs, Bath County, Virginia.
He was unable for duty in February of 1862 and not reelected in May of 1862 and was honorably released from service on 25 May 1862 at Corinth, Mississippi.
In 1873 he purchased Nimrod Hall in Bath County, Virginia from his father-in-law, John P. Porter, and sold it in 1874 to Dr. Henry E. Smith from Amherst County, Virginia.
He purchased over 350 acres southwest of Nashville, Tennessee in 1883. Owned land of what is now Forest Hills to the Nashville border. Owned lands bordering all of Otter Creek Road and Granny White Pike all the way to Hillsboro Road (then Mooney Lane). W. W. Mooney Sr.'s farm was called "Bosland".
He died on the 1st of June in 1895 at the age of 61 from exhaustion from a surgical operation at his town residence, 119 Belmont Avenue, Ward 10, 16th Avenue North, in the front room, upstairs, Nashville, Tennessee.
W. W. Mooney was born in Virginia in 1834 but lived most of his life in Tennessee where his father, William S. Mooney, had already moved the family in 1832 to Pelham in what was then Franklin County.
William was a law and literary graduate and worked as a school teacher and farmer throughout Middle Tennessee.
At the outbreak of the Civil War he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in Company D, 16th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA by D. R. Smythe on May 21, 1861 at Camp Harris, Franklin County, Tennessee.
He suffered from typhoid fever in the Fall of 1861 at Millboro Springs, Bath County, Virginia.
He was unable for duty in February of 1862 and not reelected in May of 1862 and was honorably released from service on 25 May 1862 at Corinth, Mississippi.
In 1873 he purchased Nimrod Hall in Bath County, Virginia from his father-in-law, John P. Porter, and sold it in 1874 to Dr. Henry E. Smith from Amherst County, Virginia.
He purchased over 350 acres southwest of Nashville, Tennessee in 1883. Owned land of what is now Forest Hills to the Nashville border. Owned lands bordering all of Otter Creek Road and Granny White Pike all the way to Hillsboro Road (then Mooney Lane). W. W. Mooney Sr.'s farm was called "Bosland".
He died on the 1st of June in 1895 at the age of 61 from exhaustion from a surgical operation at his town residence, 119 Belmont Avenue, Ward 10, 16th Avenue North, in the front room, upstairs, Nashville, Tennessee.
William was a law and literary graduate and worked as a school teacher and farmer throughout Middle Tennessee.
At the outbreak of the Civil War he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in Company D, 16th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA by D. R. Smythe on May 21, 1861 at Camp Harris, Franklin County, Tennessee.
He suffered from typhoid fever in the Fall of 1861 at Millboro Springs, Bath County, Virginia.
He was unable for duty in February of 1862 and not reelected in May of 1862 and was honorably released from service on 25 May 1862 at Corinth, Mississippi.
In 1873 he purchased Nimrod Hall in Bath County, Virginia from his father-in-law, John P. Porter, and sold it in 1874 to Dr. Henry E. Smith from Amherst County, Virginia.
He purchased over 350 acres southwest of Nashville, Tennessee in 1883. Owned land of what is now Forest Hills to the Nashville border. Owned lands bordering all of Otter Creek Road and Granny White Pike all the way to Hillsboro Road (then Mooney Lane). W. W. Mooney Sr.'s farm was called "Bosland".
He died on the 1st of June in 1895 at the age of 61 from exhaustion from a surgical operation at his town residence, 119 Belmont Avenue, Ward 10, 16th Avenue North, in the front room, upstairs, Nashville, Tennessee.
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WILLIAM WEST MOONEY
BORN
FAUQUIER CO. VA.
MAR. 7, 1834
DIED
NASHVILLE, TENN.
JUNE 1, 1895
An honest man the
noblest work of God.
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