i ve written numerous times about my mothers family military history and am proud as can be of it but have always lamented bout the lack of knowledge on my fathers side . i didn`t even know my grandfather moons name ..all that has changed recently ..one of my older brothers found a distant family member who has collected just about everything there is to know ..i had known for many years that there were moons in the owens cross roads area and had been told that moontown was named after my moon relatives . yes ..we are from the same tree .. i had wished to find moons integrated in military history and boy did i ever ..and it is just a stroke of luck that i exist today .. great great great grandfather nathaniel moon who was a veteran on the war of 1812 went on to father 11 kids .. 5 boys and 6 girls .. when the civil war rolled around all 5 boys joined up but nathaniel said one of them had to stay home .. mother could not live losing all her boys .. the one who stayed was my great great grandfather ..the tomb stones in the pictures tell a terrible tale ..and the cemetery is of my family ..and there is revolutionary history as well .. more on that later as i study the information i just recently got ..

 

well .. a page turned and folks wont likely see post # 480 so here it is again ...the moon cemetery ...

 

How you been Hoss? Long time no post

 

i`m good .. just been thru hell and back .. all is well now ...

 

that's good to hear, did you fix the stang?

 

Good to see you posting again Willie. Quite a few of us were concerned you had been off the board so long. Glad to hear things are okay.
Pretty cool family history. Any idea of the origin of the Moon surname?

 

yes but i`m too buzzed to post about it now .. i had always thought it to be of irish decent ( mooneyham ) but it is english ..

 

i know a Mooneyham family here

 

Only Mooneyham's I have ever heard of were blowers from back in the day.

http://www.mooneyham-blowers.com/Pages/default.aspx

Which kind of fits in with Willie and the person he is.

 

two thousand years or so ago people only had one name ..Moses , Paul , Saul , Simon and so on .. But as the population of the world grew that was beginning to create a problem .. too many Pauls , Simons and Peters to keep up with ,,being as Paul was a jewel smith by trade he became known as Paul Smith .. John had a son .. he was called Johns Son which later morphed into Johnson ..and so it went ...the moon name came in to being several hundred years ago .. there was a time when denmark was part of the english empire .. the king of england commissioned an army from the ruler of denmark .. wanting to empress the kIng of england the ruler of denmark sent his finest men .. erect in stature ,athletic in build,brave ,light skinned, red hair and blue eyes ,all over six feet tall which was big at the time .they flew a flag that had a Half moon insignia and did most of their fighting at nite by moonlite ..see a rend here ? .they won numerous battles and to show his gratitude the King of england offered them land to settle .. many of them did this and took the surname Moon ..

 

That is cool Willie. Thanks for sharing. The origin of words and names fascinate me.

 

yes .. i put it back together two weeks ago .. it needs to sit a month or so though .. the trooper down the street nearly caught me again .. i did a doughnut down the street from him and he heard me .. he did`nt see me but he came flying up by my house less than 30 seconds after i got home .. its` sitting outside getting rained on at the moment ... one of the very few times it`s gotten wet in the 10 years i`ve had it ... storm snuck up on me ...

 

You are my hero

 

Nice, nice

 

 

did you know ?
The first couple to
be shown in bed together
on prime time TV was
Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
''
"
every day more money
is printed for Monopoly
than the U.S. Treasury.
"
"
Coca-Cola was
originally green.
"
"
The State with the
highest percentage of
people who walk to work:

Alaska
"
"
"The percentage of
Africa that is wilderness: 28%
(now get this...)

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The percentage of
North America that is wilderness: 38%

 

i swear this just happened right here !

 

have`nt had much to post about lately .. made a great effort to give up drinking and did fine till today .. went dry for 6 weeks .. been looking for a project vehicle for several months ..passed up a few good ones .. did`nt really want to do a 46 stubebaker truck though i mite look at it again .. passed up an early 80`s ford truck that would have been great to do .. already an automatic with a 9 inch rear but had rust and body work issues ,,finally today bought this 96 F150 with a bad motor .. 5 speed trans i dont need .. gunna see if a 429 with C6 trans will fit ... i have toarch and welder ... it will fit ..will post pictures as progress occurs ..gunna make me a lightning ..

 

Looking forward to photos on this build.

 

Awesome, I love it Willie. You always bring a smile to my face.