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Houston
County, Alabama, Heritage
Moody/Mazyck
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Dr. Earl Moody, Center
Medical Chain Long, Unbroken In Mazyck's
Family
by Nat C. Faulk
Eagle Editor(Ret.)
from THE DOTHAN EAGLE, Wed., July 9, 1975
Dr. Earle Farley Mazyck has returned home to practice medicine after 12 years of
college, internship, and thereby hangs a tale that echoes local history with
accent on continuity.
A native of Dothan, Dr. Mazyck is the son of a doctor, the grandson of a doctor
and the great grandson of a doctor, all of whom have practiced in Dothan. The
ancestral span covers almost a century. There may be similarities in
professional linage elsewhere,
but not in Dothan.
The fourth generation of the Moody line to practice here, Dr. Mazyck
(Dothan
High Class of 1963) is son of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Mazyck, 2000 W. Main
Street. The elder Dr. Mazyck's paternal and maternal grandfathers were also
doctors and Mrs. Mazyck is the former Miss Marjorie Moody, daughter of the late
Dr. and Mrs. E.F. Moody of Dothan. And Dr. Moody was the son of Dr. Fleming
Isaac Moody, one of Dothan's first physicians and a pioneer citizen in other
respects.(ed. note: Dr. Fleming Moody and his
wife died the first week of May 1900. Back in '68, Richard Burke, who was
tallest, replaced the stone flame on top of their obelisk in the City Cemetery.
The flame was on top of a vase with a drape carved around it pinned with an
opium poppy & a rose. Off the top of my head- here's the inscription on the
obelisk.
OUR MOTHER AND FATHER ARE NO
MORE
THEY ARE WANDERING HAND IN HAND
OVER IN THE SPIRIT LAND
HERE THEY REST
SIDE BY SIDE
EVEN DEATH ITSELF
COULD NOT DIVIDE.)
The medical saga began with the birth of Fleming Isaac Moody in Appling County,
Georgia in 1856. After moving his family to Dixie, Ga. (Brooks County), he
attended school in Liberty County and then entered the University of Georgia.
Subsequently he graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in
Baltimore, Maryland in 1876. He first located at Gordon, in Alabama, and then
moved to Abbeville. From there he moved to Columbia and then to Dothan when it
was still a part of Henry County. Dr. and Mrs. Moody died within two weeks of
each other in 1900.
Earle Farley Moody was born on the Moody plantation at Saffold, Ga., along the
Chattahoochee River in 1880, and came to Alabama with his parents. He was
graduated in 1903 at Tulane University and began an illustrious career as a
physician and surgeon in Dothan. He founded the Moody Hospital at 311 N. Alice
Street and operated the institution until his death in 1952.
The senior Dr. Mazyck was born in Yazoo City, Miss., and moved to Darlington,
S.C., where he was reared. He completed medical school at the University of
Virginia in 1931 and began practice in Birmingham in 1934. Moving to Dothan in
1935, he became a partner of Dr. Moody in 1938. Acquiring Moody Hospital in
1953, he liquidated the facility in 1965 and continued a private practice.
Earle Farley Mazyck was graduated at the University of the South at Sewanee,
Tenn., in 1967 and completed the University of Virginia Medical School in 1971.
He then interned medicine at the University of South Carolina at Charleston,
S.C., the same educational institution where his great grandfather, Dr. Edmund
Mazyck, once taught medicine.
The latest Dr. Mazyck is associated with Dr. James A. Robeson and Dr. W. F.
Drewry in the practice of internal medicine.
Incidentally, any family reunion attended by Dr. Mazyck might well be a medical
convention of sorts. His wife, the former Joan Whitney of Taftsville, Vermont is
a registered nurse, and his brother, Dr. Arthur Mazyck, a Montgomery
radiologist, is married to the former Miss Elizabeth Maxwell of
Northport,
Ala. a practicing pediatrician.
Dr. and Mrs. Mazyck are the parents of a daughter, Kathryn Augusta, nine months
old. They have purchased a home at 502 N. Cherokee Avenue.
One more thing- not only did Dr. Mazyck's great grandfather, Dr. Edmund Mazyck,
become a doctor after serving in the Confederate Army, so did yet another great
grandfather, Dr. N. W. McKie of Canton,Miss.
Descendants of Moody
1-Dr. Fleming I. Moody b. 22 Feb 1856, d. 20 May 1900 +Iona G. b. 10 Feb 1862, d. 15 May 1900 |--2-Dr. Earle F. Moody b. 22 Oct 1880, d. 16 Aug 1952 | +Ilona Cameron | |--3-Marjorie Moody | | +Dr. Arthur Mazyck | | |--4-Earle Mazyck | | +Joan | | |--5-Augusta Mazyck | | |--5-Hadyn Mazyck | |--3-Earle Moody |--2-Iona Moody Carmichael | +Walter Cowdery Farmer , par. Bird Grace Farmer and Lucie C Cowdry
| |--3-Martha Jane Farmer
| | +Charles Chapman Jr. , par. Dr. Charles H. Chapman Sr. and Florris Malone
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| | |--4-Davis Farmer Chapman
| | | +Laura Louise Parker
| | |--4-Charles Chapman III
| | | +Lanie Summerline b. Fairhope, Alabama, par. Unknown and Unknown
| | | |--5-Benjamin Chapman
| | | |--5-Bay Chapman
| | | |--5-Lane Chapman
| | |--4-Florrie Chapman
| | +Dr. Craig Coe , par. Dr. Howell Coe and Unknown
| | |--5-Abbie Elizabeth Coe
| | |--5-Charlsie Coe
| |--3-Lou Farmer
| +Will Bledsoe Dr.
|--2-Sherrod Moody
Copyright 1996 These are my own working genealogy files that I share with you. The errors are my own. But, perhaps they will give you a starting point. All original writing is copyrighted. Webmaster
Copyright 1996 These are my own working genealogy files that I share with you. The errors are my own. But, perhaps they will give you a starting point. All original writing is copyrighted. Webmaster
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