1872-1927

Au­gust 2, 1872, near Rock­mart, Georg­ia.

Oc­to­ber 27, 1927, Huff­man, Al­a­ba­ma, in a car ac­ci­dent.

Mosley’s first song, For Me was pub­lished in Re­gal Sing­ers in 1889, and he taught his first sing­ing nor­mal in Mar­shall Coun­ty, Al­a­ba­ma, in 1896. For some time he con­duct­ed sing­ing nor­mals an­nu­al­ly at Sand Moun­tain, Al­a­ba­ma. His sing­ing schools drew stu­dents from all over the south­east Unit­ed States, in­clud­ing Jesse Bax­ter, Ver­nie Fos­sett, John L. Shra­der, Eu­gene Hor­ton Whitt and Troy Dan­i­el. He worked for the A. J. Sho­wal­ter pub­lish­ing house for 30 years as an as­so­ci­ate ed­it­or, di­rect­or, and af­ter An­tho­ny Sho­wal­ter’s death in 1924, ed­it­or-in-chief of the Mu­sic Depart­ment. Mos­ley’s works in­clude:

  1. Hear the Prom­ise
  2. Judgment Day Is Com­ing, The
  3. Leaning up­on My Fa­ther’s Arm
  4. That Is Where I Want to Go
  5. There’s a Place for Me
  6. We’ll Ne­ver Grow Old
  7. Whom Hav­ing Not Seen We Love