Nathaniel Moore and Descendants 1828-2006 Norma Justine Moore Chance Summer 2006 Copyrighted by Justine M. Chance All Rights Reserved August, 2006 DEDICATION 1 <<Original Picture Omitted>> Dedicated to my family: Back row: Jerry McAuley Chance next row: daughter, Diane Ruth Kroeger, editor; Justine Moore Chance, writer; son, Peter Jerremy Chance (deceased but near us, always). Front row: son in law, Tony Brittin Kroeger holding Kelly Allison Kroeger and Ryan Keith Kroeger holding guitar. (1989) A Prayer Thank you, God, for letting me share your best. Thank you for great hard working, determined and devoted ancestors, for kind committed relatives, and a wonderful loving family, an eternal treasure. CONTENTS Section 1: Introduction: thanks/ meaning of symbols/some history Section 2: Nathaniel Moore’s family (and son Alfred’s family) Section 3: Bedford William Moore’s family Section 4: Thomas Judston Moore’s family Appendix: Documents/ Family photographs/Memorabilia, etc. /Bussell transcript Introduction /Section 1 / Justine Moore Chance I grew up along with my seven siblings on the Alfred Moore Land Grant and cherish my days on that land: land which was never trod on, as my husband Jerry says, by anyone except the Indians and the Moores. I never really thought about broader kinship until I retired from teaching, lost a son and felt a strong urge to make connections. Sometimes, when tired and discouraged about finding descendants from Nathaniel and Margaret to the present, I think of those who have gone on (Pete Chance included), I feel a tug at my heart and bravely pick up my phone and dare to call my unmet kin and ask personal questions. Special thanks: The Bedford Moore Family Bible’s recorded dates were used (preserved by Pleas Moore then Alma Moore Montgomery) courtesy Velera Montgomery Milam, present holder. Thanks go to her and to Mildred Moore Crosby, holder of the Alfred/Charity Moore Family Bible (preserved by Thomas Judston Moore then James M. “Jim” Moore) which was also used as confirmation of dates of birth for their family. Other contributions include materials collected by Vernon Striegel; Zula Moore Readey, History of the Moores found in Lilly Younger’s History of Decatur County; David Donahue, website and Yesterday’s Tennessee, (now manned by Jerry Butler). All of those, excluding Jerry of course, are now deceased. I especially want to thank family members from the Pleas Moore family, Velera Milam and Betty Ruth Mangum for sending letters, pictures and offering their help in any way possible. Thank you, Elmeda DeLong Hudson for packets with history and pictures of the Glendora Swafford line. Thank you, Helen Humphreys for the package of interesting materials from the Francener Moore Striegel branch of the family. I have gotten to know Jay T. Moore’s daughter, Janice Griggs, Decaturville, and TN. who also sent pictures via email and introduced me to the Huddleston web page. Thank you, Janice. Thanks to the some authors of books: Norma Pauline Moore submitted It’s a Dog’s Life and poems, My Life. I still have a copy of my brother Rex’s book, Bunny’s Journal and I was recently gifted with a copy of LeRoy Moore’s entertaining read, The House of Moore. So added to their efforts, I hope this attempt at filling in some gaps and making some connections will enlighten and give added insight as to who we are. 2 Meaning of Symbols/ ordered generations: *DD = Direct Descendant *D = Descendant *= descendant **= next in line, etc. Numerals come next. (1,2,3 etc.) Capital letters: (A, B, C etc.) Lower case letters: (a. b. c. etc.) Double Capital Letters: (AA, BB, CC, etc.) Lower case letters, doubled: (aa, bb, cc, etc.) Now it’s everyone’s responsibility to identify the next generation. (My Diane suggested color code.) NATHANIEL MOORE (Some History) Nathaniel Moore b. 7-3-1787 d. 9-1871 married Margureth Phillips b.6-4-1788 d.3-19-1867 He was a blacksmith and died away from the Perryville area, place unknown. He is listed in Lilly Younger’s Decatur County Tennessee County History Series, Memphis State University Press, Memphis, Tennessee 1979 (vol 20) in the 1850 Census as a 62 year old blacksmith from North Carolina. His son Alfred was listed in that publication on p. 10 as a carpenter, 34 years of age, from North Carolina. On page 19, Claude Dillinger (Mittie Moore’s husband) was recorded as having moved from Indiana to Perryville where he established a blacksmith shop in 1897, in addition to the Moore’s shop at Sardis Ridge . Government land grants 8623 and 11715 are noted in Zula Moore Readey’s sketch of Nathaniel in Lilly Younger’s History. Nathaniel Moore signed (#117) a petition for division of Perry County, and was listed on the Perry Co. tax list of 1837 as Nathaniel Moore, Dist.4 (p. 90). Other research: Nathaniel Moore b.7-3-1787 was a descendant of one of the original Moore brothers who came to this continent from Glasglow, Scotland probably in the mid to late 1700’s. Nathaniel married Margureth Phillips b.6-24-1788 and they were residents of Surry Co. when they and their four children when they set out for Perry Co. TN. Their children were Alfred Lynch b.5-1-1816, Margaret “Peggy”, Tennessee “Tennie” and Mary Moore. Their wagon train was delayed in Bedford Co. TN. for the birth of Bedford William Moore (9-5-1928) before proceeding to their destination. (A different story has been told that this group traveled down the Tennessee River on a flatboat, by way of Muscle Shoals, to the Perryville area.) When the family arrived in Perry Co. TN. in 1928, Nathaniel entered a land grant, for land near Perryville. Their first home was built near a spring. Later in 1850, Nathaniel entered a second land grant, on December 10, 1850 for100 acres. Nathaniel was a blacksmith and he was away from home, working at the time of his death. Due to a horrible snow storm, and weather unfit for returning his body to Sardis Ridge Cemetery, he was buried in the area of Mifflin TN. where his daughter Mary McGlothlin lived. (See Yesterday’s TN. for different version) Going Back The following is information I attained from Margaret Ballard Moore, wife of Ruben Moore, Jr. They own and reside in the old Alfred Lynch Moore home place on McKenzie Road in the Sardis Ridge community. >David Moore arrived in Philadelphia, PA. in 1739 along with his 7 brothers. They came from Ulster, Ireland and their names were listed in the ship’s manifest as: David Moore, Andrew Moore, Alexander Moore, John Moore, James Moore, Samuel Moore, William Moore and George Moore. (The Mother’s maiden name was Baxter, as listed in Londonderry in 1689.) >Benjamin Moore b.1766 was the son of David (our direct line). His son was Nathaniel. ******** Note: This writer found some interesting facts while researching the Moore’s in the Decatur Co. Library in Decaturville, TN. in August 2005. The name John Moore was also listed in the book, Heads of Families-North Carolina, Salisbury District, Surry County pp. 185. (Our ancestors lived there at the time of this census.) ******** The following information was gathered by Mildred Moore Crosby from our Aunt Zula Moore Readey. Aunt Zula died in 1989, a few years after my father, her brother, Jim Moore died. .. So all of Tom Moore’s children are deceased. This document goes back to the days of my great, great grandfather, Nathaniel. Text: My grandfather, Thomas Johnston Moore (Tom Moore) told us that the Moores came from Glasglow, Scotland. He said people referred to his grandfather Nathaniel as “Nattie”. 3 According to a historian named Hanna who wrote a book called “The Scotch Irish”, the Moores moved from Glasglow Scotland to Ireland because an Irish clan leader named O’Neil got into trouble with the government of the English Queen Elizabeth. Con O’Neil was chieftain of the northern half of Ireland County Down, just across the north channel of the Irish Sea from Scotland. The English queen’s minister was preparing to hang O’Neil when his wife made a deal with two Scottish lords that were to save his life. The lords were Hugh Montgomery of Braidstone and Sir James Hamilton, both living in Northern Ayrshire. Montgomery and Hamilton and their followers crossed the channel and rescued O’Neil as they had promised each man received a third of O’Neils land. O’Neil later “ran through” his share. The rights of Hamilton and Montgomery to hold their portions later were confirmed by King James with the provision that the lands be resettled with people from Scotland. The Moores were among the families who resettled from Scotland in county down Ireland. The resettlement took place in the early 1600’s, mostly 1606. The Moores of Ayrshire were by no means the first Moores in Ireland. There had been Moores in Ireland since the Celtic wave of immigration in pre- Christian times. The Ayrshire Moores are credited by historian Hanna with having fought gallantly in the siege in Londonderry which was a part of a conflict between the Protestants of Northern Ireland and the Irish Catholics. It is an argument that is not settled. In the year 1739 there were 9 sturdy Moore brothers who came ashore in Philadelphia from a ship newly arrived from Ulster in Northern, Ireland. They were part of the Moore Clan that came to Ireland from Scotland. Tradition says they stepped into a tavern and ordered a jug of whiskey. They toasted a colorful past, they toasted a promising future and then they started down the Appalachian Trail to the Carolinas and opportunity.