Oliver Hiram Mosby was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1937. He was the fifth son of Florence Amanda Mosby and Jedidiah Preston Mosby. His family moved to Ripley, Ohio when Oliver was just an infant. There they worked on a farm. Oliver had four brothers that preceded him in death: Louis, Evans, Jedidiah Jr., and Julius. His younger brother Melvin in still living in Dayton, Ohio. He graduated from…