Maxey Dell Moody
| Maxey Dell Moody | |
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Maxey Moody around 1920
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| Born | December 12, 1883 Ocala, Florida |
| Died | July 27, 1949 (aged 65) Jacksonville, Florida |
| Resting place |
Evergreen Cemetery Jacksonville, Florida |
| Occupation | Founder of M. D. Moody & Sons, Inc. |
| Spouse(s) | Ethel Müller (m. 1909) |
| Children |
4
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| Parent(s) |
Sloman Moody Eliza Moody |
| Relatives |
John Pearson (grandfather) Rogue (great grandson) |
Maxey Dell "Max" Moody (December 12, 1883 – July 27, 1949), also known as M. D. Moody, was the founder of M. D. Moody & Sons, Inc. in 1913 and the patriarch of the Moody companies. His business, M. D. Moody, became the oldest family owned construction equipment distributor in the United States and at one point the largest crane dealer in the southeast. Moody also founded the American Road Builders' Association and was known as the "oldest construction machinery man in Florida."
Max Moody was born on December 12, 1883, in Ocala, Florida, to Eliza and Sloman Moody. His father, Dr. Sloman W. Moody (1838–1898), was born in Horatio, South Carolina, to plantation owners Susan and Slomon Moody Sr. Maxey's mother Eliza Moody (née Pearson, 1847–1918) was born in Orange Springs, Florida, to Confederate Captain John William Pearson and Sarah Pearson. Maxey's siblings, a mixture of half-siblings or full-blooded siblings due to Sloman's previous marriages. Dr. Sloman became a physician in Marion County for over 30 years until he died on March 20, 1898, at the age of 64 when Maxey was 14. In 1901 Maxey contracted typhoid fever but recovered. Maxey worked at a local drug store until moving to Jacksonville in 1901. In Jacksonville Maxey worked as a traveling salesman and then for Lancaster Automatic Railroad Crossing selling stock in Jacksonville, Ocala, Tampa and Cuba. In 1912 he became a salesman of tobacco.
On April 14, 1909 Max married Ethel Muller, who was born in Germany, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Maxey and Ethel were going to Washington, D.C. for their honeymoon but changed it to Tampa due to his mother's illness. They had four children: Dolores "Didi" Dux (1910-2000), Maxey Dell Moody, Jr. (1913-1987), Muller Moody (1917-1976), Ethel "Jean" Butler (1930-2001).
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