The Genealogy of David L. Moody & Yvonne L. La Pointe. - Person Sheet
The Genealogy of David L. Moody & Yvonne L. La Pointe. - Person Sheet
Death8 Feb 1946, Jackson, Beaverhead County, Montana, USA ®247
Burial12 Feb 1946, Dillon, Beaverhead County, Montana, USA
MemoH. M. Brundage, Funeral Director
ReligionMethodist Episcopal
OccupationLife Insurance Agent
FlagsEngland, Gardner, Kansas, SSDI
FatherWarren Lyman MOODY (1838-1896)
MotherElla Gertrude "Nellie" BURLINGAME (1846-1924)
Misc. Notes
He began the Moody ancestry research from Edmund Moody to Leonard Warren Moody employing the eminent genealogist, Donald Lines Jacobus, and The College of Arms, London. A copy of this genealogy was found in the effects of Leonard Wood Moody, after his death in 1969, by his son David Leonard Moody, who continued the work. He was age 1 and living with parents at 423 Franklin Street, Elmira, New York in 1880. ®76 He was 8 years old when he moved with his parents to Gardner, Kansas in 1887. On 1 March 1895 he was 16 and lived in Gardner, Kansas with his father, mother and sister Laura L., age 4. ®222 His father died in 1896 when he was 17. On the 1900 US Census he is 20 years old and living with the family of his uncle, Franklin Washburn, at 921 Clain? Street, Racine, Wisconsin, while attending school. ®248 He was an agent for the New York Life Insurance in Iola, Kansas, and then moved to Kansas City to become superintendent of the Kansas agents for Equitable Life Insurance Company (from the Iola Register). Miss Smith, of London, met Leonard on a trip to America in 1904. The wedding was planned for San Francisco on 15 Mar 1905. Miss Smith embarked from England on 15 February 1905 on the steamer Baltic. When Leonard, who was in Salt Lake City on business, heard of her arrival in New York, he arranged for her to meet him and they were married on 27 Feb 1905 in Salt Lake City. On the 23 April 1910 US Census he was a stock broker and he and Helen were lodging at the Chicago Beach Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. On 12 Sep 1918 he lived at the Westgate Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri while his wife lived at the Carlton Hotel in Kansas City. He worked for the Thomas Rudy? Insurance Company at 605 Republic Building in Kansas City. He was 5 feet 10 Inches tall, of slender build with brown eyes and gray hair. ®36 From August-September 1927 they lived at 36 Dunbarton Road, Brixton Hill, London S.W. 2, England (was this his wife’s former home?) On 4 Oct 1927 he sailed from Southampton, England to New York on the SS Olympic. His address was 156 Liberty Street, New York City. He worked in New York City for the Petroleum Conversion Corporation, 136 Liberty St. in 1928. On the US Census of 8 April 1930 he was a securities broker and he and Helen lived in Apartment 715 they rented for $85 per month in a building on Austin Street between 82nd Drive and Sefferts Boulevard in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York. In 1942 on his Draft Registration Card he and Helen lived at 83-46 118 Street, Kew Garden, Long Island, New York. He was self employed in mining in Dillon, Montana. He died in 1946 at Jackson, Montana, 50 miles from Dillon where he was staying at the Andrews Hotel while working a mining deal at the Saginaw Mines. He was buried in Dillon, Montana. His nephew Leonard Wood Moody made an effort to have him disinterred and reburied in Gardner, Kansas.
Research
Was he disinterred and reburied in Gardner, Kansas? (He is not listed in the Gardner, Kansas cemetery where his parents are interred.) Check the SS death index.
From August-September 1927 they lived at 36 Dunbarton Road, Brixton Hill, London S.W. 2, England (was this his wife’s former home?)
From August-September 1927 they lived at 36 Dunbarton Road, Brixton Hill, London S.W. 2, England (was this his wife’s former home?)
Spouses
Misc. Notes
Helen was from London, England. ®8 On her 16 February 1915 Passport Application she gave her birth as 18 October 1882 in London, England and her residence as Roanoke City, Missouri. She had sailed from Liverpool on 14 February 1905 on the SS Baltic and was working for the Automatic Bookkeeping Register Co. at 18th Street and Wyandotte Street, Kansas City, Missouri. She had left the United States on 8 October 1914 and was temporarily residing at Reading, Berkshire. On her 20 February 1922 Passport Application she gave her birth as 18 October 1883 in London, England and her temporary residence as visiting at 592 Jarvis Street, Toronto, Canada from 6 October 1921 to 20 February 1922. She needed this passport to visit her mother in England. She had previously visited in Toronto from May until November in 1912. She and Leonard, a Broker, resided in Chicago, Illinois. She had become a naturalized citizen at the time of her 27 February 1905 marriage to Leonard Warren Moody. In 1946 and 1963 she lived at 8346 - 118th St., Kew Gardens 15, Long Island, New York. She crossed the Atlantic 27 times, the first in 1904. In 1963 she has a niece in London, her only relative, as she lost her two brothers in World War One, and her mother subsequently died in London. She retired at age 74.
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