Their marriage was published by Town Clerk Xenophon Janes on 12 Dec 1827. ®277 They were married by John Nevers, Justice of the Peace on 3 January 1828. On 1 June 1830 Edwin and Betsey were both 20-30 years old and had one boy and one girl both under five years of age. Living with them were a man 15-20 years old (probably brother Noah, 17) and a man 20-30 years old (probably brother Lucius, 25). ®278 He renounced the administration of his father's estate in 1835. They were both 30-40 years old and had 4 boys under 5, 1 boy 5-10, 1 boy and one girl 10-15 on the 1840 Census. He worked in manufacturing and the trades. ®270 He died of a heart attack in 1841 while out chopping wood and left his wife, Betsy, with 9 children to raise. ®8
“Edwin Moody, a stonemason with a small farm in the northern part of the town was a genial, shiftless, lazy fellow, adored by his wife Betsey and their numerous offspring, popular with the neighbors, but addicted to more whiskey than was good for his heart. He died suddenly May 28, 1841, when Dwight was four; and died bankrupt. The creditor, Richard Colton, swept in and distrained everything he could, including most of the furniture, the horse and buggy, the cows except for one calf he did not discover. The older boys hid their father's tools, and the dower law of Massachusetts prevented Colton turning the widow out of the house. Next month Betsey bore posthumous twins, Sam and Lizzie, making nine children of which Dwight was the fifth son; he now had six brothers and two sisters. He was the son of Isaiah and Phila (Alexander) Moody. Isaiah was a first cousin of Simeon Pomeroy Moody, both being grandsons of Joseph and Sarah (Kellogg) Moody. Edwin like his father was a brick mason and brick maker, and undoubtedly the old brick houses and chimneys of Northfield are attributable to the hands of Isaiah Moody and his sons. Of at least one, the record of building is extant, that of Mrs. Nims, and we know the bricks were purchased by Isaiah and laid by Edwin and Noah, his sons.” ®73