Last weekend was a very busy one for me and I missed out on Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun, “Signs You Have GOCD,” inspired by Michael John Neill’s post “10 Signs You Have Genealogy OCD” at Rootdig.com (also see Randy’s “SNGF ‘Genealogy OCD’ Compendium”). This subject is so up my alley. And I missed it.
But it did get me to thinking about things I really am obsessive about in my genealogy research:
1. The Moore Family. All of them. All of Samuel Moore’s descendants. All of the Moores who show up in Greenville, South Carolina who may in some way connected to these Moores. All the stories. Every scrap of material - besides Greenville and Anderson Counties in South Carolina and Dallas and Baylor Counties in Texas, I have to go to Henry County, Georgia (Bud Mathis Moore and Freeman Manson Moore were there at one point, plus an Andrew Moore who looks kinda promising...), plus DeKalb County, Georgia and Cleburne County, Alabama (Freeman’s son William S. Moore was in those counties, and we know so little about him), plus Izard County, Arkansas (Preston E. Moore was there in 1870, and he is a Topic of Special Obsession (TSO)).... And please, please - Samuel Moore’s wife (wives?) and parents? No piece of information is too insignificant, no courthouse is too remote. I will get the information on these people.
2. My #1 Brick Wall, Susan Elizabeth Smith Bonner Brinlee. Looking for a Smith in Tennessee is like looking for a needle in a haystack. But I Will Do It.
3. “Reverse orphans.” I described this phenomenon when I hosted the “85th Editions of the Carnival of Genealogy: Orphans and Orphans” and was surprised to find out how many other researchers also get involved in researching these people with no direct descendants. And although Preston Moore is apparently not a reverse orphan, he’s still a Moore, so I am still obsessed with him.
4. Visiting and researching in all the states that my ancestors have lived in, which covers all of the South and border states (except for Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi), Vermont, and Illinois as well as a good part of the mid-Atlantic states.
5. Learning everything there is to know about the Elisha Lewis-Rosannah Dalrymple family and the Elisha Berry Lewis-Martha Poole family.
6. Finding all of my husband’s ancestors back to the first immigrants (his ancestors arrived here between the 1850s and 1910s, so I am hoping this is feasible). And, as usual, this includes all of the collateral lines.
7. Using some clues from DNA results to find the parents of brothers Hiram Brinlee Sr. and George Brinlee.
8. Finding George Floyd’s parents: was his father William Floyd (as several of us think) or James Floyd (as written by the grandson of George's younger brother Ransom to my great-grandfather Charles Augustus Floyd)?
9. Finding out how my great-great grandmother Emily Tarrant fits into the Greenville, South Carolina Tarrant families.
10. There is no #10 right now. But I have a feeling that research will lead me to another one - you know, the next brick wall. One that really intrigues me. One whose story I absolutely MUST know.
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Friday, October 8, 2010
Friday Newsletter: 10 October 2010
Ever since we returned from Greenville, it has been difficult to settle down and concentrate on one thing in genealogy. Now it’s time to get very serious about focusing and actually accomplishing something. And with all the different family projects vying for my attention (Brinlee, Smith, Moore, and Floyd), I have to make a list of priorities and stick to it.
On top of all of the information from my trip and new-found cousins, while the sale was on ($55 for a year’s subscription) I subscribed to Genealogy Bank, so I definitely want to take advantage of that resource. Actually, it’s just about the only genealogy that got done this week. Even though I previously subscribed to the Dallas Morning News Archives, I hit the 700-download limit without exhausting their resources as far as research is concerned. Genealogy Bank’s different options for tailoring searches have already yielded some new items for that paper.
1. Floyd
I am going to organize the material sent to me by my newly discovered Floyd cousins and transcribe the letters. This is the easiest task to handle, so it gets done first.
2. Smith
I did not finish the project for mapping Smith families in categories 1 and 2 and entering them into a worksheet before I left for Knoxville, so this needs to be completed.
3. Brinlee
This is the last family for which I need to systematize the information I have at the great-great grandparent level and enter it into my genealogy program. I started before the Greenville trip and want to complete this phase of my genealogy research.
4. Moore
Although the logical thing to do first would be to process all the material and information I gained from the trip to Greenville, there is just so much of it that I am going to leave it for a while until I get the first two items on the list done, then go through it gradually, interspersing it with other research. Printouts from microfilm and handwritten notes have been filed in a separate file box, and the images I made from some books on my wand scanner have been uploaded into iPhoto.
5. Lewis, Tarrant, and other families associated with the Moores
There is also a lot of material on these families in the Greenville stuff; proceed same as for item 4.
On top of all of the information from my trip and new-found cousins, while the sale was on ($55 for a year’s subscription) I subscribed to Genealogy Bank, so I definitely want to take advantage of that resource. Actually, it’s just about the only genealogy that got done this week. Even though I previously subscribed to the Dallas Morning News Archives, I hit the 700-download limit without exhausting their resources as far as research is concerned. Genealogy Bank’s different options for tailoring searches have already yielded some new items for that paper.
1. Floyd
I am going to organize the material sent to me by my newly discovered Floyd cousins and transcribe the letters. This is the easiest task to handle, so it gets done first.
2. Smith
I did not finish the project for mapping Smith families in categories 1 and 2 and entering them into a worksheet before I left for Knoxville, so this needs to be completed.
3. Brinlee
This is the last family for which I need to systematize the information I have at the great-great grandparent level and enter it into my genealogy program. I started before the Greenville trip and want to complete this phase of my genealogy research.
4. Moore
Although the logical thing to do first would be to process all the material and information I gained from the trip to Greenville, there is just so much of it that I am going to leave it for a while until I get the first two items on the list done, then go through it gradually, interspersing it with other research. Printouts from microfilm and handwritten notes have been filed in a separate file box, and the images I made from some books on my wand scanner have been uploaded into iPhoto.
5. Lewis, Tarrant, and other families associated with the Moores
There is also a lot of material on these families in the Greenville stuff; proceed same as for item 4.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Thanks to Tracy for an Act of Genealogical Kindness
My heartfelt thanks to Tracy of The Pieces of My Past, as well as her friend and her friend's aunt, for their very generous Act of Genealogical Kindness. Tracy recognized the Tarrant name from a recent post on my brickwall ancestor Emily Tarrant Moore; a friend by that name has an aunt who has researched the family. Tracy asked the friend if her aunt would mind sharing the part of her research that dealt with the family. The aunt agreed, and I now have some material to start (and the inspiration to start) piecing together the family lines of the Greenville Tarrants.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Timeline for Emily Tarrant Moore
Here is my timeline for the life of Emily Tarrant Moore (Task B, Challenge 4 in the GeneaBloggers Games). It was created on TimeToast. As you can see, there are not very many dates on it - something to work on in the future. When I only knew a year, I entered January 1 as the month and day.
(Do I get extra points because initially Blogger would not accept the post - "Tag is not closed: Embed" - so I googled the problem and found that the code generated on TimeToast needed to have some code (I can't put it here because then it still won't publish my post!) added at the end?)
Friday, February 19, 2010
Family and Friends Newsletter Friday 19 February 2010
Not much accomplished this week except watching the Olympics and participating in the GeneaBloggers Games.
Research
Norman
Most of my research was on Normans, and I’m not even sure some of them are related! (See my “Mystery Normans” posts.) Finished working on the Newton Leonard Norman family and have moved on to the Elijah Norman family.
Moore, Tarrant
For the GeneaBloggers Games I did a profile of Emily Tarrant Moore and a Google Maps depiction of the places in South Carolina where William Spencer Moore lived.
Blogs
Read about the happy results of Becky Jamison’s Act of Genealogical Kindness at Grace and Glory.
Sara Beth at Lessons from My Ancestors shares a wonderful story about a painting in her parents’ house in “Sentimental Sunday: More Than an Old Man Praying.”
At Keeper of the Records, Joanne has written a wonderful story about pockets, her grandmother’s crewel work, and a wonderful surprise in “Threads of Time.”
Teresa Martin decides to track down the cast of characters reputed to have been involved in an outrageous crime in an 1891 newspaper article and finds … not what you might expect in “Murder, Newspapers, and Lies – Elliott County, Kentucky” on the Eastern Kentucky Genealogy blog.
Research
Norman
Most of my research was on Normans, and I’m not even sure some of them are related! (See my “Mystery Normans” posts.) Finished working on the Newton Leonard Norman family and have moved on to the Elijah Norman family.
Moore, Tarrant
For the GeneaBloggers Games I did a profile of Emily Tarrant Moore and a Google Maps depiction of the places in South Carolina where William Spencer Moore lived.
Blogs
Read about the happy results of Becky Jamison’s Act of Genealogical Kindness at Grace and Glory.
Sara Beth at Lessons from My Ancestors shares a wonderful story about a painting in her parents’ house in “Sentimental Sunday: More Than an Old Man Praying.”
At Keeper of the Records, Joanne has written a wonderful story about pockets, her grandmother’s crewel work, and a wonderful surprise in “Threads of Time.”
Teresa Martin decides to track down the cast of characters reputed to have been involved in an outrageous crime in an 1891 newspaper article and finds … not what you might expect in “Murder, Newspapers, and Lies – Elliott County, Kentucky” on the Eastern Kentucky Genealogy blog.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Madness Wednesday: Another Brick Wall
In keeping with our turned-upside-down-schedule-due-to-the-Olympics, my posting schedule during these GeneaBloggers Games weeks will also be turned upside down. So I am posting Wednesday (which is actually tomorrow, but I am going to prepost today, that is, Tuesday) about one of my tearing-my-hair-out brick walls, Emily Tarrant Moore.
Emily was one of the first “new” ancestors that I found after I got into genealogy, and I hardly know any more about her today than I did when I first saw her name listed as the mother of my great-grandfather Harlston Perrin Moore on his death certificate.
Emily shows up by name on three Federal censuses: 1850, 1860, and 1870. She does not show up on the 1880 census, so we believe she had died by then. Her husband, William Spencer Moore, died in 1871. I believe that Emily died some time during or before the year 1877, because that is when my great-grandfather sold the farm and moved to Texas. Emily’s age is given as 35 on the 1850 census, 31 on the 1860 census (! – her age, her husband’s age, and the ages of her sisters-in-law were all basically the same as their ages were on the 1850 census), and 57 on the 1870 census, so I have taken 1813 as the guesstimate year of her birth. I believe she was also counted with Spencer Moore in Anderson County, South Carolina on the 1840 census, but I cannot be sure it was her; there were two females 20-30 years old (Spencer’s sisters) and one female 10 to 15 years old – too young to be Emily, but it might have been a mistake.
I do not know when Spencer and Emily married. Their children were born in the following years: Preston in about 1843, Harlston Perrin in 1845, Commodore Worth in 1848, William Brewster in 1851, and Anna Jerusha in 1854. I believe that Spencer moved from Greenville County to Anderson County in 1836 (based on land transaction records), and it may be that Spencer and Emily were married by then, because at that time most if not all of the South Carolina Tarrants lived in Greenville County. If Spencer and Emily were married by 1836, why are there no children with earlier dates of birth than 1843? This is one of many mysteries about Emily that I would like to solve.
The “big” mystery would be: Who were Emily’s parents? The solution probably lies in a thorough study of the Greenville Tarrants. Emily is not listed anywhere as belonging to any of the Tarrant families, but I have seen a few gaps in lists of children that have pointed me toward a couple of good prospects.
Some time during the Games I will attempt to make a timeline for the events in Emily Tarrant Moore’s life for which the dates are known – wish me luck!
Emily was one of the first “new” ancestors that I found after I got into genealogy, and I hardly know any more about her today than I did when I first saw her name listed as the mother of my great-grandfather Harlston Perrin Moore on his death certificate.
Emily shows up by name on three Federal censuses: 1850, 1860, and 1870. She does not show up on the 1880 census, so we believe she had died by then. Her husband, William Spencer Moore, died in 1871. I believe that Emily died some time during or before the year 1877, because that is when my great-grandfather sold the farm and moved to Texas. Emily’s age is given as 35 on the 1850 census, 31 on the 1860 census (! – her age, her husband’s age, and the ages of her sisters-in-law were all basically the same as their ages were on the 1850 census), and 57 on the 1870 census, so I have taken 1813 as the guesstimate year of her birth. I believe she was also counted with Spencer Moore in Anderson County, South Carolina on the 1840 census, but I cannot be sure it was her; there were two females 20-30 years old (Spencer’s sisters) and one female 10 to 15 years old – too young to be Emily, but it might have been a mistake.
I do not know when Spencer and Emily married. Their children were born in the following years: Preston in about 1843, Harlston Perrin in 1845, Commodore Worth in 1848, William Brewster in 1851, and Anna Jerusha in 1854. I believe that Spencer moved from Greenville County to Anderson County in 1836 (based on land transaction records), and it may be that Spencer and Emily were married by then, because at that time most if not all of the South Carolina Tarrants lived in Greenville County. If Spencer and Emily were married by 1836, why are there no children with earlier dates of birth than 1843? This is one of many mysteries about Emily that I would like to solve.
The “big” mystery would be: Who were Emily’s parents? The solution probably lies in a thorough study of the Greenville Tarrants. Emily is not listed anywhere as belonging to any of the Tarrant families, but I have seen a few gaps in lists of children that have pointed me toward a couple of good prospects.
Some time during the Games I will attempt to make a timeline for the events in Emily Tarrant Moore’s life for which the dates are known – wish me luck!
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Orphans and Orphans: The Two Preston Moores
[Part 2. Part 1 Searching for Preston Moore]
Something just did not fit. There seemed to be too much information on this Zelig-like Preston; he was in too many places and they did not always fit together. He appeared to have been both in Fort Mifflin (following the Battle of Gettysburg) and among Confederate deserters picked up and incarcerated by Union forces in Nashville, Tennessee. Moreover, his enlistment with a Virginia unit (apparently the 37th Virginia Infantry Battalion) was puzzling, as I had no indication of the family having any recent connections to Virginia.
Judging by his father’s will and the 1870 census for South Carolina, Preston Moore did not return to South Carolina after the war. I checked the 1870 census for Preston Moore in Virginia, and it was unnerving to find him there, in Washington County: born around 1844 (close to the 1843 date indicated by the 1850 and 1860 censuses), with wife Mary. The census indicated that he could not read or write, but the 1860 census for Anderson County, South Carolina had indicated that he attended school, and I knew that his brother, my great-grandfather, could read and write. Too many puzzle pieces did not fit, and I began to suspect that there were actually two Preston Moores.
A search of the 1860 census in Virginia turned up a Preston Moore of the right age in Kanawha County. So could there have been two men named Preston Moore in the same unit? The “U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865” and “American Civil War Soldiers” databases contained the information that solved the puzzle: both men served in units with similar names - the “other” Preston Moore in the 37th Virginia Infantry, and “my” Preston E. Moore in the 37th Virginia Cavalry.
At about this time my generous “history husband” returned from a business trip in Pennsylvania with a gift: J. L. Scott’s 36th and 37th Battalions Virginia Cavalry (1986, H.E. Howard, Inc.). The 37th Virginia Cavalry was originally organized as Dunn’s Battalion, Partisan Rangers, with many recruits taken from the South Carolina counties of Greenville, Anderson, and Pickens, and was later mustered into service as regular cavalry – the 37th Virginia Cavalry – on 3 November 1862. Hence the appearance of a South Carolina man in a Virginia unit.
Preston was listed on the roster of the 37th Battalion Virginia Cavalry in Scott’s book:
“MOORE, PRESTON: enl. in Co. E. Deserted and took oath, Dec. 29, 1863, in Knoxville, Tenn.”
To complete Preston’s record of service, I returned to Footnote, which by this time had added more Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers for South Carolina. This time I found Preston E. Moore in the 2nd South Carolina Rifles, which was actually his first term of service:
- He was enlisted for service on 29 October 1861 by 1st Lt. Jo. Berry Sloan.
- He was recommended for discharge due to disability by O. M. Doyle, Asst. Surgeon, Moore’s Battalion.
[Transcription:
Army of the Confederate States
Certificate of Disability for Discharge
Corpl. Preston E. Moore of Capt. D. L. Donnald’s Company F 1st Batt. Rifles Provisional Army was Enlisted by Lieut. Jo. Berry Slone of the 1st Regmt. of Rifles at Anderson Co. SC on the twenty ninth Day of October 1861 to serve for three years or during the war. He was born in Anderson Dist. State of South Carolina, is Eighteen Years of Age five feet five [inches] his fair Complected Blue Eyes Sandy hair and by Occupation when Enlisted a farmer. During the last two months said Soldier has been unfit for duty Thirty Days.
Camp Johnson…………………D. L. Donnald Capt.
May 1 1862……………………Commander Company]
- He was approved for a Certificate of Disability for Discharge by Company Commander Capt. D. L. Donnald and was discharged on 3 May 1862.
[Transcription:
Camp [illegible]
May 1st, 1862
I certify that I have carefully examined the said Preston E. Moore of Captain Donnald’s Company, and find him incapable of performing the duties of a soldier because of general weakness – not having, in my opinion, sufficient vigor of constitution to enable him to discharge the duties incumbent on him as a soldier.
I think the welfare of the service requires that he be discharged.
O. M. Doyle
Asst. Surg.
Moore’s Battn.
Discharged from the service of the Confederate States May 3rd 1862
John V. Moore
SC 2nd Battn.]
At some point after his discharge, he re-enlisted for a second term of service in the 37th Virginia Cavalry:
- He was on a List of Rebel Deserters who took the Oath of Allegiance to the United States Government “between Dec. 16 and 29, 1863, and, after confinement for a period of 10 days, were then released” – in his case, from Nashville on 11 January 1864.
[Transcription:
(Confederate.)
M/37 Battalion/Va.
Preston E. Moore
Pvt. 37 Bt. Va. Cav.
Name appears as signature to an
Oath of Allegiance
to the United States, subscribed and sworn to before R. M. Goodwin, Capt. & Asst. Pro. Mar. Genl., Dept. Cumb., January 11, 1864.
Please of residence: Anderson Co., SC
Complexion: Fair; hair: Light
Eyes: Gray; height 5 ft. 6 in.
Indorsement shows: “Roll of Prisoners of war released on taking the oath of Allegiance at Nashville, Tenn., January 11, 1864.”
Hd. Qrs. Prov. Mar. Gen’l, Dept. of the Cumb’d, Nashville, Tenn.; Roll No. 521]
Scott’s description of the conditions in Tennessee during the winter of 1863-64 (J.L. Scott , p. 57) make it easy to understand why so many Confederate soldiers deserted: “The 37th Cavalry and Jones’ Brigade were in poor condition. The winter had posed great hardship on the men and equipment. Many were without blankets, some were without shoes. Returning from Tennessee one man froze to death in the saddle and frostbite was common.”
- Illness was also common: Preston was admitted to the General Hospital of the U.S.A. on 11 January 1864 for acute diarrhea, transferred to the Provost Marshall on 13 January 1864, and released on that same day.
That is the last I know of Preston E. Moore.
I doubt if I will ever learn his ultimate fate: when and where he actually died and is buried. Some day I hope to visit the area of the Nashville battlefield, which has not been preserved but does have a few roadside historical markers. Preston may have been buried in an unmarked grave somewhere nearby, or he may have made it partway home to South Carolina, desperately ill and fighting the bitter cold, before he died.
I think of Preston every Memorial Day and remember him often at other times.
His name will not be forgotten.
Sources:
Census
Spencer Moore household, 1850 U.S. census, Anderson County, South Carolina, population schedule, Eastern subdivision, dwelling 637, family 633; National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, roll 848. Accessed via Ancestry.com.
Spencer Moore household, 1860 U.S. census, Anderson County, South Carolina, population schedule, 42nd Regiment, dwelling 951, family 961; National Archives Microfilm Publication M653, roll 1212. Accessed via Ancestry.com.
John D. Young household, 1860 U.S. census, Kanawha County, Virginia, population schedule, Clendennen Post Office, dwelling [not visible], family 387; National Archives Microfilm Publication M653, roll 1356. Accessed via Ancestry.com.
Henry Myers household, Preston Moore family, 1870 U.S. census, Washington County, Virginia, population schedule, North Fork township, dwelling 290, family 295; National Archives Microfilm Publication M593, roll 1681. Accessed via Ancestry.com.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, National Archives and Records Administration
Preston E. Moore, compiled military record (corporal, Company F, 2nd South Carolina Rifles): Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of South Carolina, Microfilm Publication M267. Accessed via Footnote.com.
Preston E. Moore, compiled military record (corporal, Company E, 37th Virginia Cavalry, variously listed as battalion and regiment): Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Virginia, Microfilm Publication M324. Accessed via Footnote.com. (Note: I have not listed the records for the “other” Preston Moore separately because the two sets of records are listed together.)
Online Civil War Databases
Ancestry.com. Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Selected Records of the War Department Relating to Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M598, 145 rolls); War Department Collection of Confederate Records, Record Group 109; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Ancestry.com. Historical Data Systems, comp. American Civil War Soldiers [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: Data compiled by Historical Data Systems of Kingston, MA.
National Park Service: Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System. Online database (http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/).
Other
J. L. Scott: 36th and 37th Battalions Virginia Cavalry. 1986, H.E. Howard, Inc.
Typescript of Will of William Spencer Moore, dated 25 July 1865. Copy provided by South Carolina Department of Archives and History,
Final note: This experience has taught me that reconstituting a Civil War service record is no small feat. Units changed – as attrition or recruitment dictated, they became smaller or larger units, disappeared, changed status from irregular to regular, or were swallowed up by other units, often with a different state affiliation; units also had many different nicknames and may have been most often referred to by their commanders’ names. A soldier’s name may have appeared in many different forms, and the records of different soldiers with the same name may have been combined. I have used and am continuing to use this experience in tracing some of my other “orphans” who perished in the Civil War.
Something just did not fit. There seemed to be too much information on this Zelig-like Preston; he was in too many places and they did not always fit together. He appeared to have been both in Fort Mifflin (following the Battle of Gettysburg) and among Confederate deserters picked up and incarcerated by Union forces in Nashville, Tennessee. Moreover, his enlistment with a Virginia unit (apparently the 37th Virginia Infantry Battalion) was puzzling, as I had no indication of the family having any recent connections to Virginia.
Judging by his father’s will and the 1870 census for South Carolina, Preston Moore did not return to South Carolina after the war. I checked the 1870 census for Preston Moore in Virginia, and it was unnerving to find him there, in Washington County: born around 1844 (close to the 1843 date indicated by the 1850 and 1860 censuses), with wife Mary. The census indicated that he could not read or write, but the 1860 census for Anderson County, South Carolina had indicated that he attended school, and I knew that his brother, my great-grandfather, could read and write. Too many puzzle pieces did not fit, and I began to suspect that there were actually two Preston Moores.
A search of the 1860 census in Virginia turned up a Preston Moore of the right age in Kanawha County. So could there have been two men named Preston Moore in the same unit? The “U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865” and “American Civil War Soldiers” databases contained the information that solved the puzzle: both men served in units with similar names - the “other” Preston Moore in the 37th Virginia Infantry, and “my” Preston E. Moore in the 37th Virginia Cavalry.
At about this time my generous “history husband” returned from a business trip in Pennsylvania with a gift: J. L. Scott’s 36th and 37th Battalions Virginia Cavalry (1986, H.E. Howard, Inc.). The 37th Virginia Cavalry was originally organized as Dunn’s Battalion, Partisan Rangers, with many recruits taken from the South Carolina counties of Greenville, Anderson, and Pickens, and was later mustered into service as regular cavalry – the 37th Virginia Cavalry – on 3 November 1862. Hence the appearance of a South Carolina man in a Virginia unit.
Preston was listed on the roster of the 37th Battalion Virginia Cavalry in Scott’s book:
“MOORE, PRESTON: enl. in Co. E. Deserted and took oath, Dec. 29, 1863, in Knoxville, Tenn.”
To complete Preston’s record of service, I returned to Footnote, which by this time had added more Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers for South Carolina. This time I found Preston E. Moore in the 2nd South Carolina Rifles, which was actually his first term of service:
- He was enlisted for service on 29 October 1861 by 1st Lt. Jo. Berry Sloan.
- He was recommended for discharge due to disability by O. M. Doyle, Asst. Surgeon, Moore’s Battalion.
[Transcription:
Army of the Confederate States
Certificate of Disability for Discharge
Corpl. Preston E. Moore of Capt. D. L. Donnald’s Company F 1st Batt. Rifles Provisional Army was Enlisted by Lieut. Jo. Berry Slone of the 1st Regmt. of Rifles at Anderson Co. SC on the twenty ninth Day of October 1861 to serve for three years or during the war. He was born in Anderson Dist. State of South Carolina, is Eighteen Years of Age five feet five [inches] his fair Complected Blue Eyes Sandy hair and by Occupation when Enlisted a farmer. During the last two months said Soldier has been unfit for duty Thirty Days.
Camp Johnson…………………D. L. Donnald Capt.
May 1 1862……………………Commander Company]
- He was approved for a Certificate of Disability for Discharge by Company Commander Capt. D. L. Donnald and was discharged on 3 May 1862.
[Transcription:
Camp [illegible]
May 1st, 1862
I certify that I have carefully examined the said Preston E. Moore of Captain Donnald’s Company, and find him incapable of performing the duties of a soldier because of general weakness – not having, in my opinion, sufficient vigor of constitution to enable him to discharge the duties incumbent on him as a soldier.
I think the welfare of the service requires that he be discharged.
O. M. Doyle
Asst. Surg.
Moore’s Battn.
Discharged from the service of the Confederate States May 3rd 1862
John V. Moore
SC 2nd Battn.]
At some point after his discharge, he re-enlisted for a second term of service in the 37th Virginia Cavalry:
- He was on a List of Rebel Deserters who took the Oath of Allegiance to the United States Government “between Dec. 16 and 29, 1863, and, after confinement for a period of 10 days, were then released” – in his case, from Nashville on 11 January 1864.
[Transcription:
(Confederate.)
M/37 Battalion/Va.
Preston E. Moore
Pvt. 37 Bt. Va. Cav.
Name appears as signature to an
Oath of Allegiance
to the United States, subscribed and sworn to before R. M. Goodwin, Capt. & Asst. Pro. Mar. Genl., Dept. Cumb., January 11, 1864.
Please of residence: Anderson Co., SC
Complexion: Fair; hair: Light
Eyes: Gray; height 5 ft. 6 in.
Indorsement shows: “Roll of Prisoners of war released on taking the oath of Allegiance at Nashville, Tenn., January 11, 1864.”
Hd. Qrs. Prov. Mar. Gen’l, Dept. of the Cumb’d, Nashville, Tenn.; Roll No. 521]
Scott’s description of the conditions in Tennessee during the winter of 1863-64 (J.L. Scott , p. 57) make it easy to understand why so many Confederate soldiers deserted: “The 37th Cavalry and Jones’ Brigade were in poor condition. The winter had posed great hardship on the men and equipment. Many were without blankets, some were without shoes. Returning from Tennessee one man froze to death in the saddle and frostbite was common.”
- Illness was also common: Preston was admitted to the General Hospital of the U.S.A. on 11 January 1864 for acute diarrhea, transferred to the Provost Marshall on 13 January 1864, and released on that same day.
That is the last I know of Preston E. Moore.
I doubt if I will ever learn his ultimate fate: when and where he actually died and is buried. Some day I hope to visit the area of the Nashville battlefield, which has not been preserved but does have a few roadside historical markers. Preston may have been buried in an unmarked grave somewhere nearby, or he may have made it partway home to South Carolina, desperately ill and fighting the bitter cold, before he died.
I think of Preston every Memorial Day and remember him often at other times.
His name will not be forgotten.
Sources:
Census
Spencer Moore household, 1850 U.S. census, Anderson County, South Carolina, population schedule, Eastern subdivision, dwelling 637, family 633; National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, roll 848. Accessed via Ancestry.com.
Spencer Moore household, 1860 U.S. census, Anderson County, South Carolina, population schedule, 42nd Regiment, dwelling 951, family 961; National Archives Microfilm Publication M653, roll 1212. Accessed via Ancestry.com.
John D. Young household, 1860 U.S. census, Kanawha County, Virginia, population schedule, Clendennen Post Office, dwelling [not visible], family 387; National Archives Microfilm Publication M653, roll 1356. Accessed via Ancestry.com.
Henry Myers household, Preston Moore family, 1870 U.S. census, Washington County, Virginia, population schedule, North Fork township, dwelling 290, family 295; National Archives Microfilm Publication M593, roll 1681. Accessed via Ancestry.com.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, National Archives and Records Administration
Preston E. Moore, compiled military record (corporal, Company F, 2nd South Carolina Rifles): Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of South Carolina, Microfilm Publication M267. Accessed via Footnote.com.
Preston E. Moore, compiled military record (corporal, Company E, 37th Virginia Cavalry, variously listed as battalion and regiment): Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Virginia, Microfilm Publication M324. Accessed via Footnote.com. (Note: I have not listed the records for the “other” Preston Moore separately because the two sets of records are listed together.)
Online Civil War Databases
Ancestry.com. Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Selected Records of the War Department Relating to Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M598, 145 rolls); War Department Collection of Confederate Records, Record Group 109; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Ancestry.com. Historical Data Systems, comp. American Civil War Soldiers [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: Data compiled by Historical Data Systems of Kingston, MA.
National Park Service: Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System. Online database (http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/).
Other
J. L. Scott: 36th and 37th Battalions Virginia Cavalry. 1986, H.E. Howard, Inc.
Typescript of Will of William Spencer Moore, dated 25 July 1865. Copy provided by South Carolina Department of Archives and History,
Final note: This experience has taught me that reconstituting a Civil War service record is no small feat. Units changed – as attrition or recruitment dictated, they became smaller or larger units, disappeared, changed status from irregular to regular, or were swallowed up by other units, often with a different state affiliation; units also had many different nicknames and may have been most often referred to by their commanders’ names. A soldier’s name may have appeared in many different forms, and the records of different soldiers with the same name may have been combined. I have used and am continuing to use this experience in tracing some of my other “orphans” who perished in the Civil War.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Featured Family Friday: Family of William Riley Cartee and Anna Jerusha Moore
William Riley Cartee
b. 18 Sep 1850, Anderson Co., South Carolina
d. 28 Sep 1918, Anderson Co., South Carolina
& Anna Jerusha Moore
b. 12 Jan 1854, Anderson Co., South Carolina
d. 17 Sep 1889
|--Telula E. Cartee
|----b. 16 Dec 1871, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 28 Mar 1944, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|--& Stratton Carlisle Fowler
|----b. 14 Feb 1868
|----d. 19 Sep 1956
|--Fannie Ada Cartee
|----b. 11 Dec 1873, South Carolina
|----d. 20 Nov 1888, South Carolina
|--Ella Elizabeth “Lizzie” Cartee
|----b. 11 Apr 1878, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 1954, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|--& William Walter “Doc” Harris
|----b. 14 Nov 1869, South Carolina
|----d. 17 Apr 1934, Garvin, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----m. 1895
|--Charles Hubbard “Charlie” Cartee*
|----b. 8 Feb 1880, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|--& Sarah Lavinia Driver
|--Charles Hubbard “Charlie” Cartee*
|----b. 8 Feb 1880, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|--& Lillian
|--Mae Edith Cartee
|----b. 7 Mar 1883, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 25 Jan 1967, Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., NC
|--& Levi Newton Jolly
|----b. 20 Aug 1877, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 15 Apr 1967, Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., NC
|--Nora Kate Cartee*
|----b. 4 Feb 1887, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 4 Jan 1968, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|--& John Andrew Jolly
|----b. 26 Jun 1880, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 30 Jul 1910, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----m. 30 Mar 1904, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|--Nora Kate Cartee*
|----b. 4 Feb 1887, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 4 Jan 1968, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|--& Arthur Walton Dalrymple
|----b. 10 Jan 1882
|----d. 14 May 1968
|----m. 3 Aug 1938, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|--Samuel Walton “Sam” Cartee
|----b. 4 Dec 1888, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 8 Feb 1941, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|--& Ruby Mae McAllister
|----b. 7 Jan 1896
|----d. Jun 1983
|----m. 13 Mar 1916, Anderson Co., South Carolina
This is the family of the sister of my great-grandfather Harlston Perrin Moore. Anna Jerusha Moore’s parents were William Spencer Moore and Emily Tarrant. William Riley Cartee’s parents were William F. Cartee and Sarah Fleming. You can see a picture of one of the children of this family, Nora Kate Cartee, in Smile for the Camera: Wedding Belles.
The expert on this family is my third cousin, Jo Ann S. As a matter of fact, she has done such thorough and careful work on this family, the only additional “basic information” I would like to find on this family would be more information on Charles Hubbard Cartee’s two wives. Jo Ann was the first “genealogy cousin” I met after getting started on genealogy and provided a wonderful research model to emulate. I have used her research as a guide for this family, although I have also pulled and transcribed census, cemetery, and obituary information on them since they are included in my “Descendants of Samuel Moore” project.
And I will make my usual plea for this family in my effort to contact fellow researchers: If you are reading this and believe that you are related to this family I would really like to hear from you (you can find my e-mail if you click on View my complete profile under the section at the left entitled “About Me”).
b. 18 Sep 1850, Anderson Co., South Carolina
d. 28 Sep 1918, Anderson Co., South Carolina
& Anna Jerusha Moore
b. 12 Jan 1854, Anderson Co., South Carolina
d. 17 Sep 1889
|--Telula E. Cartee
|----b. 16 Dec 1871, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 28 Mar 1944, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|--& Stratton Carlisle Fowler
|----b. 14 Feb 1868
|----d. 19 Sep 1956
|--Fannie Ada Cartee
|----b. 11 Dec 1873, South Carolina
|----d. 20 Nov 1888, South Carolina
|--Ella Elizabeth “Lizzie” Cartee
|----b. 11 Apr 1878, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 1954, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|--& William Walter “Doc” Harris
|----b. 14 Nov 1869, South Carolina
|----d. 17 Apr 1934, Garvin, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----m. 1895
|--Charles Hubbard “Charlie” Cartee*
|----b. 8 Feb 1880, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|--& Sarah Lavinia Driver
|--Charles Hubbard “Charlie” Cartee*
|----b. 8 Feb 1880, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|--& Lillian
|--Mae Edith Cartee
|----b. 7 Mar 1883, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 25 Jan 1967, Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., NC
|--& Levi Newton Jolly
|----b. 20 Aug 1877, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 15 Apr 1967, Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., NC
|--Nora Kate Cartee*
|----b. 4 Feb 1887, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 4 Jan 1968, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|--& John Andrew Jolly
|----b. 26 Jun 1880, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 30 Jul 1910, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----m. 30 Mar 1904, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|--Nora Kate Cartee*
|----b. 4 Feb 1887, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 4 Jan 1968, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|--& Arthur Walton Dalrymple
|----b. 10 Jan 1882
|----d. 14 May 1968
|----m. 3 Aug 1938, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|--Samuel Walton “Sam” Cartee
|----b. 4 Dec 1888, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 8 Feb 1941, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|--& Ruby Mae McAllister
|----b. 7 Jan 1896
|----d. Jun 1983
|----m. 13 Mar 1916, Anderson Co., South Carolina
This is the family of the sister of my great-grandfather Harlston Perrin Moore. Anna Jerusha Moore’s parents were William Spencer Moore and Emily Tarrant. William Riley Cartee’s parents were William F. Cartee and Sarah Fleming. You can see a picture of one of the children of this family, Nora Kate Cartee, in Smile for the Camera: Wedding Belles.
The expert on this family is my third cousin, Jo Ann S. As a matter of fact, she has done such thorough and careful work on this family, the only additional “basic information” I would like to find on this family would be more information on Charles Hubbard Cartee’s two wives. Jo Ann was the first “genealogy cousin” I met after getting started on genealogy and provided a wonderful research model to emulate. I have used her research as a guide for this family, although I have also pulled and transcribed census, cemetery, and obituary information on them since they are included in my “Descendants of Samuel Moore” project.
And I will make my usual plea for this family in my effort to contact fellow researchers: If you are reading this and believe that you are related to this family I would really like to hear from you (you can find my e-mail if you click on View my complete profile under the section at the left entitled “About Me”).
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Madness Monday: Emily Tarrant
Emily Tarrant was my great-great-grandmother. She was married to William Spencer Moore. This family was outlined in my latest Featured Family Friday.
Emily Tarrant was one of my earliest discoveries, and she was something like a “trading card” for me when I first started corresponding with other researchers in the fall of 2005. I don’t mean that I used her like a trading card, but she was a piece of the Moore family puzzle that I had to contribute at that time so that I didn’t totally feel like a beggar receiving alms when other researchers generously provide me with information on this family. I had found her name listed as the mother on the death certificate of my great-grandfather, Harlston Perrin Moore.
The problem is that since that time neither I nor anyone else has learned much about Emily Tarrant. We do not know her exact date of birth, her date of death (we believe it was between 1870 and 1880), or her parents’ names. I suppose you could say that some progress was made when I discovered that Spencer Moore’s family came from Greenville; since there was a large concentration of Tarrant families there, we are proceeding on the assumption that Emily came from one of those families. However, I have not seen any research that lists her as a daughter of any of those families. A third cousin has posted some inquiries in the relevant places, but so far no one has replied.
Most of the information that we have on Emily Tarrant Moore comes from four censuses. The 1840 census for W. S. Moore in Anderson County, South Carolina lists three females living with him, 2 of whom are between the ages of 20 and 30 and on between the ages of 10 and 15. Spencer’s sisters Elizabeth and Susannah, who are shown living with Spencer and Emily on the 1850 and 1860 censuses, would be right for the older females, but 10 to15 is too young for Emily. There could be several explanations for this. (1) There could be a mistake on the census. (2) Spencer and Emily’s oldest known child, Preston, was born in around 1843, so perhaps they were not yet married and the younger female is some other female relation. However, land records would indicate that Spencer moved to Anderson County from Greenville county in around 1836 and the most likely scenario would be that he and Emily were already married by that time (this is not a certainty, of course). (3) Perhaps only one of Spencer’s sisters was living with them, Emily was the second female between 20 and 30, and the younger female was some other family relation.
On the 1850 Emily’s age is given as 35. On the 1860 census her age is given as 31 (or perhaps 37; this census does not seem to give correct information for Emily or Spencer (37), who is double-counted over in Greenville next to his brother’s widow and has a more probable age of 46 shown for him there). Finally, on the 1870 census, her age is shown as 57.
Emily is mentioned in Spencer’s July 1865 will; Spencer died in 1871. My great-grandfather is shown as the owner of the family farm on an 1877 map of Anderson County and he moved to Texas in that year, so I believe that Emily probably died before this.
My approach to solving the mystery of Emily Tarrant will involve “sorting out” the Greenville Tarrants. I will also be working on “sorting out” the Greenville Moores, so this work will probably be done simultaneously.
Somewhat on the subject of Genealogy Prompt #17 (make a research task list), I have in mind the tasks involved in this research. However, these are not short-term tasks. Some involve ordering or finding materials and some will definitely require some on-site research in Greenville (something I am really looking forward to doing some day!). For both the Tarrants and the Moores I need to:
1. Record and correlate land transactions, noting and cross-indexing all the other names mentioned. Locate a very detailed map of Greenville County and plot the locations of the land on it.
2. Find and transcribe the wills for Greenville Tarrants and Moores as well as for families that appear to be closely associated with them. Continue to cross-index new names mentioned in these wills.
3. Continue my research for my “Descendants of Samuel Moore of Greenville, South Carolina” project, report on it in my blog, and post queries on the families involved in the various genealogy discussion boards. Post inquiries for the Tarrants.
4. Create as much of a Greenville Tarrant family tree as I can and identify “promising” families for Emily Tarrant.
I have already made a start on task #1 by purchasing a couple of Greenville land deed books and will be ordering some more. The Greenville Library has some online images of wills and land transaction indexes. Land records and wills have already provided some tantalizing clues and I will be pursuing these.
So why does Emily Tarrant drive me so crazy? I suppose it is because the answer to her mystery seems so close and yet so far away. I feel like one of those TV detectives who keeps looking at the available information but just cannot figure out how to put it together. And I am haunted by the thought that Emily may just be one of those women who leaves behind very few traces of her existence.
Emily Tarrant was one of my earliest discoveries, and she was something like a “trading card” for me when I first started corresponding with other researchers in the fall of 2005. I don’t mean that I used her like a trading card, but she was a piece of the Moore family puzzle that I had to contribute at that time so that I didn’t totally feel like a beggar receiving alms when other researchers generously provide me with information on this family. I had found her name listed as the mother on the death certificate of my great-grandfather, Harlston Perrin Moore.
The problem is that since that time neither I nor anyone else has learned much about Emily Tarrant. We do not know her exact date of birth, her date of death (we believe it was between 1870 and 1880), or her parents’ names. I suppose you could say that some progress was made when I discovered that Spencer Moore’s family came from Greenville; since there was a large concentration of Tarrant families there, we are proceeding on the assumption that Emily came from one of those families. However, I have not seen any research that lists her as a daughter of any of those families. A third cousin has posted some inquiries in the relevant places, but so far no one has replied.
Most of the information that we have on Emily Tarrant Moore comes from four censuses. The 1840 census for W. S. Moore in Anderson County, South Carolina lists three females living with him, 2 of whom are between the ages of 20 and 30 and on between the ages of 10 and 15. Spencer’s sisters Elizabeth and Susannah, who are shown living with Spencer and Emily on the 1850 and 1860 censuses, would be right for the older females, but 10 to15 is too young for Emily. There could be several explanations for this. (1) There could be a mistake on the census. (2) Spencer and Emily’s oldest known child, Preston, was born in around 1843, so perhaps they were not yet married and the younger female is some other female relation. However, land records would indicate that Spencer moved to Anderson County from Greenville county in around 1836 and the most likely scenario would be that he and Emily were already married by that time (this is not a certainty, of course). (3) Perhaps only one of Spencer’s sisters was living with them, Emily was the second female between 20 and 30, and the younger female was some other family relation.
On the 1850 Emily’s age is given as 35. On the 1860 census her age is given as 31 (or perhaps 37; this census does not seem to give correct information for Emily or Spencer (37), who is double-counted over in Greenville next to his brother’s widow and has a more probable age of 46 shown for him there). Finally, on the 1870 census, her age is shown as 57.
Emily is mentioned in Spencer’s July 1865 will; Spencer died in 1871. My great-grandfather is shown as the owner of the family farm on an 1877 map of Anderson County and he moved to Texas in that year, so I believe that Emily probably died before this.
My approach to solving the mystery of Emily Tarrant will involve “sorting out” the Greenville Tarrants. I will also be working on “sorting out” the Greenville Moores, so this work will probably be done simultaneously.
Somewhat on the subject of Genealogy Prompt #17 (make a research task list), I have in mind the tasks involved in this research. However, these are not short-term tasks. Some involve ordering or finding materials and some will definitely require some on-site research in Greenville (something I am really looking forward to doing some day!). For both the Tarrants and the Moores I need to:
1. Record and correlate land transactions, noting and cross-indexing all the other names mentioned. Locate a very detailed map of Greenville County and plot the locations of the land on it.
2. Find and transcribe the wills for Greenville Tarrants and Moores as well as for families that appear to be closely associated with them. Continue to cross-index new names mentioned in these wills.
3. Continue my research for my “Descendants of Samuel Moore of Greenville, South Carolina” project, report on it in my blog, and post queries on the families involved in the various genealogy discussion boards. Post inquiries for the Tarrants.
4. Create as much of a Greenville Tarrant family tree as I can and identify “promising” families for Emily Tarrant.
I have already made a start on task #1 by purchasing a couple of Greenville land deed books and will be ordering some more. The Greenville Library has some online images of wills and land transaction indexes. Land records and wills have already provided some tantalizing clues and I will be pursuing these.
So why does Emily Tarrant drive me so crazy? I suppose it is because the answer to her mystery seems so close and yet so far away. I feel like one of those TV detectives who keeps looking at the available information but just cannot figure out how to put it together. And I am haunted by the thought that Emily may just be one of those women who leaves behind very few traces of her existence.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Featured Family Friday: William Spencer Moore and Emily Tarrant
These are my great-great grandparents and the next family in order as I go back through the Moores. In upcoming articles I will cover the families of each of the children except for Preston E. Moore, who apparently died in the Civil War; Spencer Moore’s will, dated 25 July 1865, lists Preston among those to share in his estate “should he be living.” I have information on Preston’s Civil War service, but that will be covered in an article at a later date.
William Spencer Moore
b. 1813, South Carolina
d. 31 Oct 1871, Anderson Co., South Carolina
& Emily Tarrant
b. 1813, South Carolina
d. bef 1880
|--Preston E. Moore
|----b. 1843, South Carolina
|----d. between 1863 and 1865
|--Harlston Perrin Moore
|----b. 4 Dec 1845, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 12 Dec 1921, Lancaster, Dallas Co., TX
|---& Martha E. “Mattie” Lewis
|----b. 8 Nov 1848, Franklin Co., Georgia
|----d. 22 Sep 1930, Plano, Collin Co., Texas
|----m. 3 Dec 1865, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|--Commodore Worth “Commie” Moore*
|----b. 17 Feb 1848, South Carolina
|----d. 22 Dec 1923, Newberry Co., SC
|---& Nora Roberts
|----b. 1855
|----d. bef 1900
|--Commodore Worth “Commie” Moore*
|----b. 17 Feb 1848, South Carolina
|-----d. 22 Dec 1923, Newberry Co., SC
|---& Martha E. Black
|----b. 14 Aug 1838, South Carolina
|----d. 8 Nov 1927, South Carolina
|--William Brewster “Bruce” Moore
|----b. 9 May 1851, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 27 Jul 1924, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|---& Mary Elizora Elizabeth Shirley
|----b. 18 Feb 1849, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 31 Aug 1926, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----m. 1880
|--Anna Jerusha Moore
|----b. 12 Jan 1854, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 17 Sep 1889
|---& William Riley Cartee
|----b. 18 Sep 1850, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 28 Sep 1918, Anderson Co., South Carolina
William Spencer Moore was born around 1813 in Greenville County, South Carolina and first appears on the Anderson County census in 1840; land documents indicate that he may have moved there in 1836. Three females are shown living with him on the 1840 census; I believe these are his sisters and his wife Emily Tarrant Moore (also born around 1813).
Spencer and Emily Moore lived in the Hopewell area of Anderson County, just south of Twenty-Six Mile Creek. They were members of Big Creek Baptist Church, where Spencer was elected deacon in 1845 but turned the office down, and later of Williamston Baptist Church, which Spencer helped to organize, and finally of Hopewell Baptist Church. Spencer was a postmaster in Williamston in 1851, headed the list of signatories on the first petition to incorporate the Village of Williamston in 1850, and in the 1860s served as a County Registrar and was nominated for County Commissioner as detailed in the 27 May 1868 Anderson Intelligencer: "In nominating County Commissioners, we have selected disabled men, who deserve the support and confidence of their fellow citizens. Mr. Moore has been unfortunate in having both arms broken recently, but will be able to discharge the duties of his office, if elected. He is a farmer, and a Christian gentleman, loved and respected by his neighbors."
The November 1871 minutes for Hopewell Baptist Church indicate that Spencer Moore died on 31 October 1871. I have not been able to find Emily Moore on the 1880 census and believe that she had died by that time.
If you are reading this and believe that you are related to this family I would really like to hear from you (you can find my e-mail if you click on View my complete profile under the section at the left entitled “About Me”).
William Spencer Moore
b. 1813, South Carolina
d. 31 Oct 1871, Anderson Co., South Carolina
& Emily Tarrant
b. 1813, South Carolina
d. bef 1880
|--Preston E. Moore
|----b. 1843, South Carolina
|----d. between 1863 and 1865
|--Harlston Perrin Moore
|----b. 4 Dec 1845, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 12 Dec 1921, Lancaster, Dallas Co., TX
|---& Martha E. “Mattie” Lewis
|----b. 8 Nov 1848, Franklin Co., Georgia
|----d. 22 Sep 1930, Plano, Collin Co., Texas
|----m. 3 Dec 1865, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|--Commodore Worth “Commie” Moore*
|----b. 17 Feb 1848, South Carolina
|----d. 22 Dec 1923, Newberry Co., SC
|---& Nora Roberts
|----b. 1855
|----d. bef 1900
|--Commodore Worth “Commie” Moore*
|----b. 17 Feb 1848, South Carolina
|-----d. 22 Dec 1923, Newberry Co., SC
|---& Martha E. Black
|----b. 14 Aug 1838, South Carolina
|----d. 8 Nov 1927, South Carolina
|--William Brewster “Bruce” Moore
|----b. 9 May 1851, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 27 Jul 1924, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|---& Mary Elizora Elizabeth Shirley
|----b. 18 Feb 1849, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 31 Aug 1926, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----m. 1880
|--Anna Jerusha Moore
|----b. 12 Jan 1854, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 17 Sep 1889
|---& William Riley Cartee
|----b. 18 Sep 1850, Anderson Co., South Carolina
|----d. 28 Sep 1918, Anderson Co., South Carolina
William Spencer Moore was born around 1813 in Greenville County, South Carolina and first appears on the Anderson County census in 1840; land documents indicate that he may have moved there in 1836. Three females are shown living with him on the 1840 census; I believe these are his sisters and his wife Emily Tarrant Moore (also born around 1813).
Spencer and Emily Moore lived in the Hopewell area of Anderson County, just south of Twenty-Six Mile Creek. They were members of Big Creek Baptist Church, where Spencer was elected deacon in 1845 but turned the office down, and later of Williamston Baptist Church, which Spencer helped to organize, and finally of Hopewell Baptist Church. Spencer was a postmaster in Williamston in 1851, headed the list of signatories on the first petition to incorporate the Village of Williamston in 1850, and in the 1860s served as a County Registrar and was nominated for County Commissioner as detailed in the 27 May 1868 Anderson Intelligencer: "In nominating County Commissioners, we have selected disabled men, who deserve the support and confidence of their fellow citizens. Mr. Moore has been unfortunate in having both arms broken recently, but will be able to discharge the duties of his office, if elected. He is a farmer, and a Christian gentleman, loved and respected by his neighbors."
The November 1871 minutes for Hopewell Baptist Church indicate that Spencer Moore died on 31 October 1871. I have not been able to find Emily Moore on the 1880 census and believe that she had died by that time.
If you are reading this and believe that you are related to this family I would really like to hear from you (you can find my e-mail if you click on View my complete profile under the section at the left entitled “About Me”).
Friday, April 17, 2009
20 Random Things About My Family Tree
Thanks to Jennifer Trahan of Jennifer’s Genealogy Blog for coming up with this idea – I think a lot of us genealogy bloggers prefer writing about our family tree to writing about ourselves!
1. One of my distant ancestors was the pastor of a Brooklyn church that my husband occasionally attended as a little boy with his grandfather (not the same building, I imagine, but still…).
2. Among all the Baptists, Presbyterians, and a handful of Methodists in my family tree, I was surprised to find some Quakers.
3. My great-grandfather Hiram Brinlee Jr.’s oldest child was born in 1864, and his youngest child was born in 1908 (from different wives).
4. My great-great-grandfather Joseph Madison Carroll Norman’s oldest child was born in 1856 and his youngest child was born in 1898 (he had three wives and 26 or 27 children).
5. My great-great-grandfather Hiram Brinlee Sr. and his brother George Brinlee were tried for murder during the days of the Republic of Texas.
6. My (I don’t know how-many-times-great) Uncle Micajah Clark surveyed Thomas Jefferson’s land.
7. My (?6g) grandfather Isaac Norman’s land was surveyed by George Washington.
8. My great-great-great-granduncle Collin McKinney was one of the framers of the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the Republic of Texas.
9. The above-mentioned George Brinlee, from my father’s side, served under General Edward H. Tarrant, a distant relation on my mother’s side of the family.
10. I am related to Samuel Clemens through the Moorman family (not through either of my Clemens lines as far as I know).
11. I am related to John C. Calhoun through my Hamilton/Calhoun line.
12. Three great-grandfathers, two great-great grandfathers, and a slew of 2g and 3g uncles served in the Civil War. There may have been additional relatives from the Smith line who also served, but since Lizzie Smith is my big brick wall, I do not know who they are.
13. My great-grandfather Hiram Brinlee’s first wife was Dicey Caroline Boone, a great-granddaughter of Daniel Boone.
14. There are an awful lot of clergymen among my ancestors. My family and I are quite surprised at this.
15. One of my mother’s sisters had the nickname “Wreck” because it was said that she make wrecks of all her boyfriends.
16. The parents of Clarence Brinlee (my subject for A Noble Life), James Edward Brinlee and Mary Ann Sims, were first cousins.
17. Two of my first cousins once removed, Guy Leon “Square” Brinlee and Vernon Argos “Bun” Brinlee, were locally famous eccentrics. They would not hunt or kill animals not would they allow them to be killed on their farm property. They never had their house wired for electricity. They led colorful lives with several different interesting professions that I hope to tell about in a future post. There was also a rumor that “Bun” actually got married at one point when his parents (“Hoss” and Myrtie Brinlee) were out of town, but was too afraid to tell his parents, so he just returned home and never mentioned it. I believe I may have found out who he married and hope to get more of the story.
18. Several members of previous generations in my husband’s family were apparently “connected.” (Points to anyone who knows what that means. Hint: His family is from New York and New Jersey.)
19. One of my husband’s grand-uncles was a well-known pianist who died young. There are still piano roll records of him playing the piano.
20. There were Tennessee moonshiners in my older half-brother’s Roberts and Phillips lines. One of them was a bigamist and served on both sides in the Civil War (his 300-page service record contains witnesses’ statements to that effect).
1. One of my distant ancestors was the pastor of a Brooklyn church that my husband occasionally attended as a little boy with his grandfather (not the same building, I imagine, but still…).
2. Among all the Baptists, Presbyterians, and a handful of Methodists in my family tree, I was surprised to find some Quakers.
3. My great-grandfather Hiram Brinlee Jr.’s oldest child was born in 1864, and his youngest child was born in 1908 (from different wives).
4. My great-great-grandfather Joseph Madison Carroll Norman’s oldest child was born in 1856 and his youngest child was born in 1898 (he had three wives and 26 or 27 children).
5. My great-great-grandfather Hiram Brinlee Sr. and his brother George Brinlee were tried for murder during the days of the Republic of Texas.
6. My (I don’t know how-many-times-great) Uncle Micajah Clark surveyed Thomas Jefferson’s land.
7. My (?6g) grandfather Isaac Norman’s land was surveyed by George Washington.
8. My great-great-great-granduncle Collin McKinney was one of the framers of the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the Republic of Texas.
9. The above-mentioned George Brinlee, from my father’s side, served under General Edward H. Tarrant, a distant relation on my mother’s side of the family.
10. I am related to Samuel Clemens through the Moorman family (not through either of my Clemens lines as far as I know).
11. I am related to John C. Calhoun through my Hamilton/Calhoun line.
12. Three great-grandfathers, two great-great grandfathers, and a slew of 2g and 3g uncles served in the Civil War. There may have been additional relatives from the Smith line who also served, but since Lizzie Smith is my big brick wall, I do not know who they are.
13. My great-grandfather Hiram Brinlee’s first wife was Dicey Caroline Boone, a great-granddaughter of Daniel Boone.
14. There are an awful lot of clergymen among my ancestors. My family and I are quite surprised at this.
15. One of my mother’s sisters had the nickname “Wreck” because it was said that she make wrecks of all her boyfriends.
16. The parents of Clarence Brinlee (my subject for A Noble Life), James Edward Brinlee and Mary Ann Sims, were first cousins.
17. Two of my first cousins once removed, Guy Leon “Square” Brinlee and Vernon Argos “Bun” Brinlee, were locally famous eccentrics. They would not hunt or kill animals not would they allow them to be killed on their farm property. They never had their house wired for electricity. They led colorful lives with several different interesting professions that I hope to tell about in a future post. There was also a rumor that “Bun” actually got married at one point when his parents (“Hoss” and Myrtie Brinlee) were out of town, but was too afraid to tell his parents, so he just returned home and never mentioned it. I believe I may have found out who he married and hope to get more of the story.
18. Several members of previous generations in my husband’s family were apparently “connected.” (Points to anyone who knows what that means. Hint: His family is from New York and New Jersey.)
19. One of my husband’s grand-uncles was a well-known pianist who died young. There are still piano roll records of him playing the piano.
20. There were Tennessee moonshiners in my older half-brother’s Roberts and Phillips lines. One of them was a bigamist and served on both sides in the Civil War (his 300-page service record contains witnesses’ statements to that effect).
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