"An Illustrated History of Whitman County, state of Washington." San Francisco:
W. H. Lever, 1901.  p. 308.
 
CHARLES R. MOYS

     This esteemed pioneer and successful agriculturist and stockman of Whitman
county is a native of England, born October 29, 1848. When three years old he
was brought by his father, John, to the United States. Their first permanent
home in the new world was in Chicago, where the father helped build the first
railroad which ever ran its trains into the great lakeport of Illinois. After
two years' residence in the city they moved onto a farm, and in 1856 they went
to Kansas, Lyons county, where our subject completed his educational discipline.
He subsequently followed farming there, and had many exciting experiences with
Indians in early days, also was there at the time of the noted Bill Anderson
raid.
     In 1878 he came thence to Whitman county, locating fourteen miles west of
the spot on which Pullman now stands, and in that vicinity his home has been
ever since. He owns a tract of seven hundred and thirty acres, upon which are
many excellent improvements, such as a fine home, barn and outbuildings, and a
splendid ten-acre orchard. He combines agriculture proper with fruit raising and
the cattle business.
     Mr. Moys has taken a very active part in the political and governmental
affairs of the county ever since he first established a residence here, and for
many years he has teen a member of the Republican county central committee. In
fraternal affiliations he is identified with the A. 0. U. W., of Pullman. His
marriage was solemnized in Kansas on July 19, 1875, Miss Emma Croyle, a native
of that state, then becoming his wife. They have five children : Edwin, George,
Myrtle, Lydia and Walter. Mrs. Moys' parents have been residents of the state of
Kansas since 1857, in which year they moved thither from Pennsylvania.
     Mr. Moys' mother died in Colfax in November, 1890. Concerning his father,
the Colfax Commoner of January 18, 1889, has the following to say:
     "John E. Moys, who died on his farm near Almota December 19, 1888, was born
in England March 10, 1810. He came to the United States in 1852, and located in
Chicago, Illinois, where he remained about five years, when he removed to the
state of Kansas, where he lived for twenty years. About the year 1877 he came to
Whitman county, locating on the farm where he died. Mr. Moys leaves, four sons :
Charles R. and E. C. Moys, who lived on farms adjoining their father's;
Henry Moys, of Portland, Oregon; and John Moys, who resides on the old Kansas
homestead; and one daughter, Mrs. Hester Cribbs, of Colfax. Mr. Moys had been a
faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church for sixty years, and his life
was that of a noble Christian. He died as he lived, and about the last words he
uttered were: "I have fought a good fight; I have finished my work; I have kept
the faith; there is a crown laid up for me.  Praise the Lord."  During his
illness of three weeks he was a patient sufferer, and death found him calm and
reposed.  He was buried on the farm, in a small cemetery, on Friday, December
21.  Funeral services were held at the Moys school house, conducted by Rev. Mr.
Phelps, of the Methodist Episcopal church, of the Pullman circuit, a host of
friends attending, who mourn with the relatives the absence of a good and honest
man.
 

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