Captain Zeally Moss, born in Loudoun County, Virginia, on March 6, 1755, to Nathaniel and Nancy Cockrell Moss, served in the American Revolutionary forces after his appointment as captain under Quartermaster Claiborne in the spring of 1777 as assistant quartermaster. Colonel William Washington later appointed him wagon master, and he served in that position until after the surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown on October 19, 1781, where he was present. After his discharge he served one year as a Baptist minister, and in 1783-84 he helped build forts in Kentucky. In 1776 he married Elizabeth (Martha, Marty) Berry and had two daughters, Elizabeth and Sarah. On October 28, 1790, he married his second wife, Jennet (Jenny, Jane) Glasscock, and they had at least four surviving children: William, Nancy, McKaig, and Lydia, the youngest born in 1816. Around 1792 he moved his family to the newly formed State of Kentucky, and in 1815 he moved to the Vevay area of Switzerland County, Indiana, where he last sold land to Tobias Bradley on September 23, 1837. At age 79, in 1834, he received his Revolutionary War pension. Moss died of a fever in Peoria County, Illinois, on October 30, 1839, at age 84 while visiting his son, Captain William S. Moss, and he is buried in the Bradley family circle with his daughter Lydia Moss Bradley in the Mt. Prospect area at the southeast corner of the cemetery. Lydia Moss married Tobias S. Bradley on May 11, 1837, became an outstanding business woman and benefactor of Bradley University, and was an early member of the Peoria Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Moss was honored in 1905 by the formation of the Zeally Moss Society of the Children of the American Revolution in Peoria, Illinois.