William Wiley Moyers was the son of Alford Whitten and Pinkie B. Stewart Moyers. As a young boy he was given the nickname "Wild Bill", my mom, his sister said it was because he was a wild one. She told many stories of her brothers growing up but the one that sticks with me the most is the time that before their two story house burned the two younger brothers, A.W. and Woody were at the top of the stairs fighting and my mom being the older sister was suppose to be watching them and worried that one of them might fall she sent her brother Bill up to break them up, but they both turned on him fighting and all three of the boys fell down the stairs breaking Uncle Bill's arm. When my grandparents got them back home from the doctors they were all in trouble. Funny thing, those three boys when together, even after they were grown would argue over whether the sky was blue or purple and it aways seemed like A.W. and Woody would side with each other against their older brother Bill. My mom use to say they lived to fight and argue with each other but loved one another dearly. Uncle Bill married Audrey Evelyn Patterson on October 26,1940 which was his mother's birthday, what a present he gave his mom, a new daughter-in-law and what a good one. After they married they bought the little white framed farm house across the road from his parents where they raised their two daughters. William was in the army and was sent overseas for a while in Hawaii he was an active member of the Tanner United Methodist Church where he served as a steward from the time he was a teenager until a few years before his death. For many years he and Mr. J.F. Roberts wer ushers and when Mr. Roberts passed away William carried on as an usher choosing different men in the church to help each Sunday. In his younger years he was a teacher, history, didn't really like teaching so gave it up but still loved history, he was the family historian, if you wanted to know something about his family and community just ask him. He along with his brother, Leroy and his father Whitten were instrutmental in helping with the building of the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama and after that he and his family went to Denver Colorado with his brother Leroy to help with something similar there. He and his family later returned to Limestone County but his brother stayed in Denver and later moved to Oak Ridge, TN. He loved farming and in the cotton season he would help with the ginning at the George Murphy Gins, sometimes closing up their home in Limestone County and living in a mobile home that George Murphy had set up at one of his gins in Cloverdale which was in Lauderdale County, Alabama, there he and Audrey worked for Mr. Murphy, William running the gin and Audrey keeping the books. They would be gone 6-8 weeks then return home when the ginning season was over until the next year.
In the mid ninety's the church remodeled the fellowship hall of the church and William built the cabinets for the kitchen. Fitting that he did that as many years earlier when the church had been relocated and the church family was called upon to help out William's dad Whitten and his brother Lenny Moyers were very instrumential in the remodeling of the church then. William loved his church and family dearly.