Adirondack Daily Enterprise, July 3, 1969 Born: October 19, 1887, in Saranac Lake
Died: July 2, 1969
Married: Catherine E. Aierstock, March 26, 1929, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Children: Son, John, and two granddaughters, Rebecca and Suzanne Moody
Alfred A. Moody was the son of Cleveland and Christine Sommerville Moody, and a descendant of Jacob Moody, the first settler of Saranac Lake. Mr. Moody had been in the insurance business here from 1925 to 1960 and was active in many organizations. During World War I, he served with Company H, 1st Training Battalion at Camp Forest, Ga. and during World War II he was deputy commander of Civil Defense in Saranac Lake and a lieutenant in the New York State Guard.
Alfred A. Moody, 81, Dies
Descendant of First Settler
Alfred A. Moody, a descent of Jacob Moody who be came the first settler in Saranac Lake when he built a sawmill on the Saranac River here 150 years ago, 1 died just before midnight Wednesday at Saranac Lake General Hospital. He was 81 years of age.
Mr. Moody had been in the insurance business here from 1925 to 1960 and was active in many organizations. He was a past master and past assistant and lecturer of the Amaranth, past high priest of the Waneta chapter, Royal Arch Masons; past master of Whiteface Mt. Lodge, F and AM, and a member of Ziyara Shrine Temple of Utica, the Adirondack Boy Scout Council, the American Legion and the Elks.
During World War I, he served with Company H, 1st Training Battalion at Camp Forest, Ga. and during World War II he was deputy commander of Civil Defense in Saranac Lake and a lieutenant in the New York State Guard.
He was born October 19, 1887 in Saranac Lake, a son of Cleveland and Christine Sommerville Moody. On March 26, 1923 he was married in Lancaster, Pa. to Catherine E. Aierstock who survives him. Their son, John, is at the Westover Air Force Base, Mass., and there, are two granddaughters, Rebecca and Suzanne Moody. Friends may call at the Fortune Funeral Home where a veterans' service will be held at 7:30 p. m. Friday followed by a Masonic service at 8 o'clock.
The Rev. Daniel Partridge, pastor of the Methodist Church, will conduct the funeral service at 11 a. m. Saturday at the funeral home. Interment will be in Pine Ridge Cemetery.
Mr. Moody's family request that friends wishing to remember him make donations to the Heart Fund or the Red Cross.
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Footnotes
1. The obituary confuses farmer and trapper Jacob Smith Moody with Captain Pliny Miller; Moody was indeed the first settler, but it was Miller who built the dam and sawmill on the Saranac River.
