Her residence was Ludlow, Massachusetts. 45 She was Cyrus’ first wife. 607Cyrus Moody and Vila Sikes published their marriage intentions in South Hadley in September 1814. 2080They were married on 13 October 1814 in Ludlow by Benjamin Sikes, Justice of the Peace. 45 She died at age 54 of consumption.2281

Was Benjamin Sikes a relative? Benjamin, Calvin and Jonathan Sikes all lived in Ludlow and had daughters of marriageable age in 1810.

He was the executor of his father, Noah Moody's, will of 19 Sep 1811. He was bequeathed all book accounts, notes, or obligations of any kind, all kinds of mecanic [sic] tools or farming utensils, all of my personal estate that is not disposed of above in this my will, also all my Real estate after my debts, together with the legacies in this my will shall have been paid out of the same.193 He lived in South Hadley on 13 October 1814 when he married Vila Sikes in Ludlow. 45 Their intentions were published in South Hadley in September 1814. He lived in Ludlow in 1820, 2287 Springfield in 1825-1828, 607 2288 and Long Meadow in 1830.2289 On 7 May 1848, Cyrus Moody was admitted to the church in Wintonbury [Bloomfield], Connecticut, from the Congregational Church in Ludlow, and wife Eliza H. from the Congregational Church in Chicopee Falls, Hampden County. 2290On 1 June 1850 Cyrus was a 60 year old cooper with real estate valued at $1100 who lived in South Hadley with his second wife, Eliza, 47, his daughter Mary Ann Moody and 7 brick makers who boarded with them. 1357 On 1 June 1860 Cyrus is a 69 year old farmer with real estate worth $950 and a personal estate worth $210 who lived in Belchertown with Eliza, 57, and Joanna Holton, 40, probably his wife’s sister. 1364 Cyrus died after his 79th birthday in the December before 1 June 1870. He was a farmer, still married and died of tuberculosis. 1561

She was probably not the Eliza H. Moody who died in Belchertown, Hampshire County, 1 October 1877 aged 74,2284although she was buried in Ludlow.2285 That would be Eliza Hyde Washburn, born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1 Sept. 1803, daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah “Sally” Washburn. 2286No marriage of an Eliza Washburn to a Holton has been located, and Eliza was called “Miss” in the intentions of her marriage to Cyrus.