Chronological outline
- 1933: Born March 10 in Lake City, South Carolina.
- 1955: Associated with The Citadel Class of 1955.
- 1963: Florence newspaper coverage identifies him as Army Captain John F. Moody, age 30, son of Walter S. Moody of Lake City, with Citadel and Korean-service references.
- 1974: Macon newspaper coverage places him at Mercer University in military science and ROTC leadership.
- 1976: Retirement-era Macon coverage presents him as a twenty-one-year Army veteran returning to South Carolina.
- 2001: The Black Bishop appears in commercial bibliographic records.
- 2004: Died November 3 in Salters, South Carolina, according to obituary and memorial records.
Editorial use
This timeline is not a substitute for a full service record. It is a site-level chronology designed to keep the main public sequence stable and prevent pages from repeating facts in inconsistent order.
As new documents are added, each date should be classified as official record, contemporaneous newspaper coverage, obituary/memorial record, bibliographic metadata, or family archive material.