“He attended the district school until eleven years of age, when he was compelled to leave home and go to work. He spent two years at South Dartmouth, attending school winters. He then removed to Lawrence and entered the Oliver grammar school where he received double promotion and was graduated in the class of 1881, being then admitted to the high school. He later attended Phillips Academy, and served as an assistant Y. M. C. A. secretary on year at Lawrence. He worked three years as night operator and night agent on the Boston and Lowell railroad, then spent three years with the New Home Sewing Machine Company at Orange, meanwhile studying theology. He served six years as a supply in the East Maine conference, and built a church in his first charge. Mr. Moody was ordained a deacon in 1894 at Houlton, Me., and as an elder in 1898 at Bangor, Me. In 1899 he was appointed to supply at South Worthington.” ®5797
On the 1880 census he was 13 years old and lived with his family in Lawrence, Essex County, Massachusetts.
On the 1910 census of Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, George R. Moody is a 43 year old clergyman born in Massachusetts who has been married for 21 years and lived with Sarah A. who is 43 with 5 children of whom 4 are living. She was born in Massachusetts and both her parents had been born in England. Children living with them are George F., 19, born in Massachusetts, Helen L ., 17, born in Massachusetts, Dwight L., 12, born in Maine, and Robert E., 9, born in Massachusetts.
On the 1920 census of Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, George R. is a 53 year old minister,
Sarah F. is 52, Helen L. is 27, Dwight L.,is 23 and Robert E. is 18.
On the 1930 census of Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, living on Marlborough Street are George R., a 63 year old Clergyman of the Methodist Church, his wife Sarah A., age 62, and single daughter Helen L., a 36 year old music teacher. ®2698
He was from Ballardvale, Massachusetts and died in 1941. He was an avid genealogist in his retirement years and collected notes on Moody's from all over New England - both of John of Hartford and William of Newbury. ®5840
He was Pastor of the South Worthington, Massachusetts Parish of the Methodist Episcopal Church from 1899 to 1905. ®5797