The Moores E-Book

Javier Leandro Maffucci Moore

• Herausgeber: Editorial Autores de Argentina
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

Three centuries of a family history that incite, more than to bask in the display of an absent aristocratic ancestry, to explore the details of a trajectory that begins in the British colonial world of north America, to anchor in the late 19th century in the wild frontier of the northeast of Santa Fe, Argentina. A panorama where the lights and shadows of lives that have left a deep mark are integrated.

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JAVIER LEANDRO MAFFUCCI MOORE

The Moores

An American family in Argentina

Maffucci Moore, Javier Leandro The Moores : An American family in Argentina / Javier Leandro Maffucci Moore. - 1a ed. - Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires : Autores de Argentina, 2022.

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ISBN 978-987-87-3500-9

1. Biografías. I. Título. CDD 929.2

EDITORIAL AUTORES DE [email protected]

Translation by PATRICIA DALLA FONTANA MOORE

Index

Note to this edition

Introduction

The origins Robert Moore & Susannah Guthrey

War and RevolutionWilliam Moore & Drusilla Weatherford

The continuous journey towards the WestWilliam Henry Moore & Mary Moore

In search of the promised landWillian Henry Moore & Nancy Logan

The path to OregonWilliam Tandy Moore & Winnifred S. Doty

Towards South America

Exploring a New WorldThe Expedition to El Rey

California ColonyThe dawn of a dream in Argentina

The beginnings at the California Colony

Alexandra ColonyAn ambitious project

Violence in a frontier society

Rebellions and politics

Economic crisis and decline of the California Colony

The return to the homeland

Mary Ellen Moore

Nancy Ann Moore

Lucinda Adeline Moore

America Geneva Moore

Jefferson Beauregard Moore

Winnifred Louisa Moore

Moores diaspora in ArgentinaBenjamin Logan Moore

Martha Jane Moore

Thomas Moses Moore

Glossary

To Martha Waldolem, my mother

Martha Waldolem Moore

“Teach me that true memories don’t wipe out,

they are greater than the oblivion, …

Even though you don’t remember,

even though you forget,

do not allow darkness to hide the unique truth:

you exist because you are loved,

you exist because you love them”

Elvira Sastre

Note to this edition

The translation has been an invaluable effort on the part of our cousin Patricia Dalla Fontana Moore, to whom we can only be deeply grateful.

In this version intended for a public perhaps not familiarized with the Argentine history, we have tried to minimize as much as possible very detailed references to Argentine historical episodes or, where appropriate, brief explanations have been included to provide context to the subject.

English-speaking communities in Argentina -especially those that lived in rural areas- developed words or phrases in English that came from Spanish terms, and used it extensively in their diaries, letters and daily conversations.

Notes have been added to explain the meaning of many proper names that have no English translation. Many of the terms typical of the Spanish spoken in Argentina, as well as those words that arose from English speakers in the Argentine camp, have been explained using part of the excellent glossary contained in www.benitz.com

Introduction

To learn where one comes from has always been to me something of the order of everyday life. A desire to learn, born under the warmth of those stories repeated in my family with absolute naturality, as litanies going mouth to mouth along for a long time.

At the beginning the decisive input came from Martha, my mother, who possessed the capacity to narrate episodes she hadn’t even lived. Her depiction of people who she had not even met has such degree of detail and truth that made a very attractive overview of the lives and histories of my ancestors.

During my childhood there were frequent occasions in which she, her sisters and my grandparents referred to situations or facts of times before their own life, and the images transmitted could not be more gripping. This is essentially a family story told for years from generation to generation to which I tried to give some sort of order and coherence, so those who follow us could recognize themselves and learn about their roots. After all we are partly the memory of those who preceded us.

It is neither a scientific work nor a historic novel, and I have tried to avoid senseless anachronisms that very little help to understand History. I have tried not to fall in the addiction of those who, on proving that documents contradict the family legend or the oral tale, get themselves trapped and frustrated and cannot leave aside the cherished family anecdote, refuse to leave it aside or give the status of absolute truth to something that is not.

Beyond the anecdotic, I was interested in seeing the family as a point of observation from where to scrutinize the existence or inexistence of solidary relationships, individual and collective attitudes, the burden of social rules, the rupture or permanency of the bonds of solidarity, the imbrication of individuals into groups, institutions and their relationship with the State.

This basting in an immigrant family plot – alien to the elite – may perhaps supply an interesting view on the life of Argentina, above all when the creation and growth had as scenario the surroundings of one of the Argentine provinces -Santa Fe- that in the second half of the 19th century went through an amazing social and economic transforming process.

As far as possible I have verified data, dates, names and places, but as every other work of this nature, it is subject to criticism and corrections, thus I gave in advance my apologies for any omission or errors. And because, given the diversity and disparity of sources, it does not deplete the family history, and may work as the starting point for others who wish to complete it, to correct it or to go deeper into other aspects.

I hope that you enjoy as much as I did – even those who do not belong to the family – the possibility of knowing more about those lives. The purpose has been to trace the origins and evolution of a particular family and not for its name, which is per se another question.

Moore is very common surname in the Anglo-Saxon world, so it is convenient not to rush into conclusions and think that any person with that name belongs to the family in question. In Argentina there are other Moore families, but they not related to us and have other roots.

In this trip to our origins, I have seen places only appearing in my dreams and endearing persons, without whose help and disinterested assistance this enterprise would have been impossible.

As mentioned before I thank Martha, my mother, Domingo, my father, who knows so much about this family and follows its saga with great interest as if it were his own, my brother and sister who even not sharing my eagerness did always listen to my narrations and who even travelled with me in the course of this research; of course my grandmother Clotilde and my aunt Lucha, because with their stories they lit the torch of my interest in learning of my roots, my aunts and uncles who stoically bore my interrogations and claims for letters, documents and photographs; my numerous cousins and nephews who always demonstrated their support and pushed me – not without reason – to shape all the information collected.

I specially thank the staff of: The Library of the National Honorable Congress, The General Archive of the Province of Santa Fe, The Historic Museum of the Province of Santa Fe, The Library of La Prensa newspaper (Buenos Aires), The Archive of La Capital newspaper (Rosario), The Archive of the Legislature of the province of Santa Fe, The Library of the National Academy of History, The Swiss Embassy in Argentina, The San Antonio (Texas) Public Library, The U.S. Congress Library, The City of New York Public Library, The U. S. National Archives (Washington D.C. and New York), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Library and the Tulsa (Oklahoma) Public Library, The Fort Concho Museum at San Angelo, Texas, The Newspaper British Library (London), The Guildhall Library (London), The Hispanic Society Library (London), The Belgrano University Library (Buenos Aires), The Iberic-American Institute Library (Berlin), The University Torcuato Di Tella Library (Buenos Aires), and the Special Collections section and the University of San Andres (Victoria) Archives of the Max von Buch Library.

It was invaluable the input and support of professor Colonel Marcelo A. Serres, doctor Guido A. Tourn Pavillon, doctor Carlos D. Paz (Centre of the Province of Buenos Aires University – CONICET), doctor Jose Rafael Lopez Rosas, Edgar Castrillo and his wife Nydia Tourn of the Board of the Evangelic Methodist Church of Alejandra, Marie Russell, official of Tom Green County (Texas), Reverend Jeremy Howat of the Episcopal Church (Anglican) at San Bartolomé (Rosario), Ian Powys, Anthony Clive Beckley, Debbi Pucket, official of Crockett County (Texas), Maria E. Cardenas, official of Valverde Country (Texas) and Suzanne Campbell of the West Texas Collection, Angelo State University Library (Texas).

I have to especially remark the significant assistance of many of the members of the Moore and Bugnon families, among others: Lucia Juana Lucha Moore, Nora Moore de Loubiere, Gloria Belkys Moore, Hilda Otilia Moore de Peralta, Blanca Noemi Memi Moore de Viegas Charneca, Guillermina Mina Elena Moore de Piacenza, Guillermo Piacenza, Elsa Nydia Moore de Dalla Fontana, Nilda P. Tita Moore de Manzur, Delia E. Moore de Gimenez, Alexandra Wheeler, Wallace Percy Wheeler, Sonia Bugnon de Navarro and Clara Pugh de Scalco.

This work would haven’t been the same without the huge assistance given from and in the United States by Linda Doty Walker, Rachel L. (Laughlin)Moore, William Ray Summers, Pitch Johnson, Catherine Holman, Eugene Holman jr., Anita Crabtree, Ann Tomlinson, Vern Paul, Mark & Dolores Ford Mobley, Dennis and Ramsey Longbotham, Rita J. Grover, Kay Moore Nolan, Melanie Daniels, Hershel W. Grinter jr., Susan Crutchfield, William McDowell and so many other relatives and friends.

In my countless journeys to the province of Santa Fe I received the warm and kind reception from Maria Luisa Otilia Maruca Almada de Moore and Lisandro Enzo Beco Moore and Maria Cristina Mansur, Alberto Tomas Loncho Moore and Edith Gimenez, Aldo Fabian Rolon and Mariana Noemi Lovatto families in Alejandra; Carmelo Braccia and Maria Elena Dopazo family in the California Colony and the Rhiner-Moore family in Rosario; in my trips to the United States I enjoyed the warmth reception of Sam Vest, Rex Lee Pigmon and their families; in London the hospitality of the Johnson-Holman family and in Switzerland the cordial welcome of Andre Bugnon and his family.

Last my thankfulness to my endearing group of friends who always encourage me to go ahead with this project. Obvious is to mention that none of the persons and institutions mentioned hereby could be held accountable for errors, inaccuracies or opinions that appear in this work.

The origins Robert Moore & Susannah Guthrey

By 1700 Virginia - the region where the Englishmen had their first permanent settlement in America -had left behind the famines and disagreements between the colonists that almost led her to ruins and the tobacco had become the motor of the local economy.

The African slaves had substituted as cheaper and more abundant labor the indentured servants and, in the 17th, and 18th centuries their work in the tobacco, rice and indigo plantations contributed to solidify the economic bases of the colonies so much that, even after the war for the Independence, the Constitution of the United States tacitly recognized such ignoble institution.1

The population was about 80,000 people, mostly English, even though several hundreds of French protestants arrived and by 1730 did the Scottish Irish.2

Those were Scots coming essentially from the Ulster - the northern part of the Isle of Ireland – where they were taken since the aggressive colonist policy was carried forward by the English Crown to achieve complete dominion of the island. The aggression of that plan was such that by 1700 a wide majority of the population of Northern Ireland was Scottish and protestant.

Some people have tended to see in certain features of these Scottish Irish such as: profession of the protestant faith, dedication to agriculture, loyalty to family or clan, certain distrust to government authorities and a big capacity for the handling of weapons, a significant influence in the formation of the cultural identity of the American people.3

The farmers and poor laborers arrived in Virginia from England soon derived into the agriculture when a capitalist market for lands started. Then the input of shepherds and tenants from Ulster, Scotland or Northern England added, going to farther areas where new societies were created, reflecting a culture -molded by generations of conflicts along the borders of England- impressed distrust towards authority and certain insistence in honor and personal integrity.

The access to land gave them opportunities for progress that did not exist in their original places, and even though the whole family worked the soil, men kept control over wives and children through tradition, intimidation or violence. There was a strong insistence in the convenience of a limited government and fierce defense in front of anyone who dared to intrude in the enjoyment of their properties even by using weapons, tradition that in this family was markedly maintained through the years.4

There in Virginia Robert Moore was born in 1732, the oldest masculine ancestor of whom we have proved notice. Little we know of him or his ancestors, even though if we consider his birthplace, his religious ideas and the fact that one of his sons was at one time member of a military formation composed essentially by descendants of Scottish Irish, it is very likely that his family came from one of those groups from the north of Ireland arrived in America.5

Erroneously it was supposed that we had an Irish origin. That is not so, at least if for that it is understood to be a part of the Catholic groups that from the Isle of Ireland came to Argentina since 1850. This family recognizes another origin in a way also related to Ireland, but throughout less direct paths.

As many others in the West world, the connection of this family with the land and the cultivation of fruits comes from very far, we basically come from a group of farmers, a family of the rural world.

Robert Moore dedicated his life with success to the tobacco crop and even had some slaves. Even when the farmers depended in a significant way on their families for the job – men worked the soil, sowed and harvested, while the women took care of the animals and the orchard – when more land they possessed greater was the possibility of looking for labor outside the family group.

At the beginning of the 18th century a significant and growing minority of farmers in the area had slaves in their tobacco plantations. But leave aside the images that may come to our minds of the huge southern plantations of the style of Gone with the wind. These were farmers that even in small plantations had slaves, though we should bear in mind the situation was certainly abhorrent, ignominious, painful and inhuman.

“More primitive, if possible, were the very small farms that had only a few slaves. It was mandatory that owners and slaves worked in permanent contact; among them the relationship was very close and the difference in status among them was almost negligible.”6

By 1756 in Cumberland County Robert Moore married Susannah Guthrey, born around 1736 in King William County, daughter of Thomas Guthrey and Sara Oakes.7

At that time the British Colonies in America had their economy based mainly in the agriculture driven by exports, but in a significant part product of self-sufficient development. Most of the white men cultivating the land were their owners and they and their families made use of their production but also started buying some consumer items, but they were very poor, and a fourth part were slaves and consumed very little.8

Robert Moore and Susannah Guthrey had several children: Elizabeth, William, Thomas Guthrie, Sarah, John G., Lucy, Travis Samuel and Richard.

Before 1800 the movement of people to the West started, due to the reduction of threats from the natives, because of the wars led against them and the diseases that attacked them. These circumstances promoted the expansion to those new territories that could be cultivated, and Robert Moore and his family settled in Green County in the recently formed State of Kentucky, as a partial detachment of Virginia.9

Once the natives were driven out of those millions of acres, the white farmers, certainly most of the colonists, hoped to become landowners, generating themselves a social and political identity around the possession of the land; the small owners insisted on their right to ensure for themselves the dominion of the land they occupied because they understood that they had won it by working it.10

It was there in Kentucky where Robert Moore settled his family and later died. In his will written in 1808 he left his slaves Phil and Lucy and their children and all his belongings to his wife and arranged for after his wife’s death everything would be equally distributed among all his sons and daughters.11

His wife Susannah Guthrey also died there on June 3rd, 1824

1 Poor white men generally young contracted for a fixed period in exchange for transportation, food, clothing and housing; they did not receive a salary and were subject to legal restrictions and physical punishment, once the contract was finished, they were freed; in the 17th Century almost two thirds of the British colonists arrived in America under this regime, including some of our ancestors.

2 Scottish-Irish is an Americanism generally not known in Scotland and Ireland and very rarely used for British historians, Leyburn, James G. The Scottish Irish. A Social History, Chapel Hill, N.C. University of North Carolina Press, 1962, p.1

3 Webb, Jim Born Fighting: How the Scots Irish shaped America, Broadway, 2005.

4 Kulikoff, Allan Colonial “American Culture” at Foner, Eric and Garraty, John A. (ed), The Reader’s Companion to American History, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pub, Co. 1991, at www.history.com accessed on 12/04/2012 at 09:48 pm

5 Jarvis Tooby, Lela “America Jane Elliot and her Times” at Mendocino Historical Review, Vol. II No. 3, Summer 1975, p.1-5

6 , Lacour-Gayet, Robert La vida cotidiana de los Estados Unidos en vísperas de la Guerra de Secesión 1830-1860, Nueva Colección Clío, Librería Hachette, Buenos Aires, 1957, p.168-169.

7 Thomas Guthrey lived in Cumberland County, he had a plantation, captain in the militia in the Revolution War he left his “old Bible” and two slaves to his daughter Susannah Moore, Riley, William E. History of Woodford County, p. 418; Guthrie, Lawrence R. American Guthrie and Allied Families, 2 Vol., Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, The Kerr Printing Company, 1933, p. 38; “The Family History of John W. Pritchett” at www.virginians.com accessed on Nov 30th 2012 at 07:24 pm.

8 Kulikoff, Allan “Colonial American Economy” in Foner and Garraty, op. cit.

9 Kentucky Early Census Index, 1800 Tax List, Jackson, Ron V. comp

10 Idem above Kentucky Census, 1810-90 Ancestry.com; Kentucky Tax Lists, 1799-1801 Ancestry.com

11 “Moore Family Papers 1790-1862”, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Manuscripts SC 1069, Springfield, Illinois; Abstracts of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories, Appendix: Green County, Book A, p. 287; Will Records of Green County, Kentucky, 1796-1824, Green County Will Books, Ancestry.com

War and RevolutionWilliam Moore & Drusilla Weatherford

William Moore - son of Robert Moore and Susannah Guthrey– was born on November 3rd, 1757, in Buckingham County when the family still lived in Virginia. His childhood and early youth went on without significant events, but things did not stay so quiet.

From early 1775 the climbing of confrontations between the colonists and the British authorities kept growing and everything led to the outbreak of an armed conflict that finally burst. News quickly expanded and the town raised in general rebellion, in short, the colonial governors were removed from office and a long and bloody war began.12

William Moore incorporated to the revolutionary militias on February 14th, 1776, in his birthplace, joining the 3rd Company. From Buckingham County they marched to Richmond and from there to Williamsburg, from where both commanders returned sick to their homes and later died, the company then stayed in charge of captain Samuel Jordan Cabell and lieutenant Reuben J. Cabell.13

That Company was part of the Virginia 6th Regiment, integrated then to the army organized by the Continental Congress, at whose command George Washington was designated.14

It was a riflemen unit mostly made up of groups of Scottish Irish and Germans from Buckingham County that in the Revolutionary War participated in several battles.15

When the revolutionary cause seemed to sink in the combat fields, on December 26th, 1776, the battle of Trenton took place. Stephen’s brigade -William Moore was part of it– guarded the landing of the troops after crossing the Delaware river.16

The Army advanced with General George Washington leading and they achieved a victory that surprised everyone and injected new spirits to the Revolution in a very hard moment.17

The British did not delay their reaction and on January 3rd, 1777, the battle of Princeton took place. In a few weeks George Washington with a small army and not very well trained achieved two important battles and more than anything gave new verve to the colonists fight infusing optimism and the conviction in a moment that the spirits were quite crestfallen. William Moore got sick, received the smallpox vaccination and spent the winter in a camp in Wilmington (Delaware) joining the troops in the spring of 1777.

By the summer of 1777 the British planned to invade New York from Canada to split the colonies. The group which William Moore integrated was annexed to colonel Daniel Morgan Riflemen Regiment in May that year and they were sent to ensure the territory between New Jersey and New York.18

After several encounters the British were finally defeated in Saratoga, where the Virginian rifflers played an essential part.

Moore participated in the battle of Stillwater against the British troops, after that they went to Albany and from there to White Marsh near Philadelphia, where he took part in the Battle of Chestnut Hill. After Christmas Morgan’s men went to Crops Keys near Valley Forge and having expired his period in the militia William Moore was discharged with honor on February 14th, 1778, when the participation of his unit in the Revolutionary War had almost ended.19

The Independence war was far longer and more complicated than what the parties had foreseen. The breaking point was the French support and in 1783 the British finally recognized the independence of the United States of America.20

Citizen of a free and pacified country, William Moore married Drusilla Weatherford in Charlotte County, Virginia. Drusilla was born on August 13th, 1767. Her father, Major Weatherford, came from a family of English ascendance mixed in America with cherokee and creek blood and her mother Mary Edwards was also a family of English origin living in America from the early moments of the European colonization.21

Drusilla was orphan of both parents a year before and surely had property, since she had designated curator to preserve and administrate her assets, to be legally represented and economically provided for her education.22

After their marriage William and Drusilla moved to Nelson County where they worked in agriculture. That place in 1792 was part of the recently created State of Kentucky and there, in the area that the very same year formed Green and Washington counties, their children were born: Jeremiah Robert, Elizabeth Edwards, John A., William Henry, Travis Guthrie, Louisa J., Charles and Martha Weatherford.23

The independence and the peace with the United Kingdom promoted the continuity of the expansion of the West but the original inhabitants saw that movement with suspicion and looked for and obtained the British support to stop it. Meanwhile the confrontation between Great Britain and the Napoleonic France increased, the maritime blockade of the British tried to stop the commerce with the United States, numerous American merchant ships were caught by the British and the spirits were heating up until the United States decided to formally declare the war.

Once again William Moore responded to the call of the weapons in defense of his homeland, joining the army to participate in the so-called War of 1812. He was already 55 years old but served as corporal in a company of the Kentucky Regiment of Mounted Volunteers.24

That group carried on excursions against some native towns, mostly British allied, from the Southwest of Michigan Lake. They camped at Huron Lake coast and then, following superior orders, they were sent to protect Illinois countryside. The officers required permission to go through Kentucky in their path to the West, the commander agreed and ordered a meeting in direct violation of the orders that were received. On his way to Kentucky, William Moore stopped his service and retired to his home on August 15th, 1813.25

The war continued, the intent to occupy Canada failed, there were some victories at sea but in the territory the British reached Washington, where they put the White House on fire. Finally, this war unnecessary and plagued with errors ended on January 1st, 1815, with the battle of New Orleans, even though peace had been signed without the parts being able to clearly declare themselves as triumphant.26

The final of that conflict strengthened the simultaneous and peaceful displacement of the United States to the West, legitimated the acquisition of Louisiana, sealed now definitive peace with the United Kingdom and the fate of the natives, because Andrew Jackson, the new hero and future President, did not honor the agreement and carried on his plans to drive them out of their domains.

But let’s get back to our family. With the passing of time the sons and daughters grew up, married and formed new families in Kentucky, when news arrived on the possibility of getting good lands even farther West.

“During the years after 1815 there were in the United States more people buying lands at bargain prices, for which they were granted a final deed, than in any other period in human history.”27

The quick and successful settlement of the Mississippi river valley was one of those events decisive in history and thanks to that the United States were not a small and struggling group of colonies any longer, to become a great nation.28

It was then that enthusiastic about that possibility, despite being in his 70s, William Moore with his wife and the rest of the family decided to migrate once again, this time to Missouri.29

There, at Jackson County, in a fertile and wooded valley between Little Blue River and an open road they built, by 1830, a two-floor cabin, two rooms downstairs and a small staircase to the other two rooms upstairs. The wooden cabins were the only refuge the conquerors of the prairie and the family collaborated in the construction.30

William Moore’s cabin

The Jackson County Historical Society Journal, V. 46, n. 2 Autumn 2005 p. 21

With the spirit of mutual assistance so typical of the United States by that time, the neighbors where there were any, usually lent a hand.

“The first task was to cut branches out of oaks, beech, maple or poplar and store them in the spot where the new house was to be. There they took the rind off, leveled off the pieces and heaped them. After that the ground would be leveled and the first lumbers placed. The door would close with the help of a wooden bolt, assisted, by night, with a strong crossbar. The windows were closed by oiled paper or oiled goose skin. A fireplace, one or more beds attached to the wall, which naturally, lacked rails, a table for the meals, some benches, sometimes a rocking chair, a trunk to keep the linen, some hangers, a calendar hanging from a rope, a map of the United States, a portrait of the President, a Bible within easy reach.”31

William Moore and his youngest son Travis Guthrie Moore shared the concession of 80 acres. His other sons John and William Henry Moore settled nearby.32

In 1833 William Moore applied for and got his pension as former revolutionary soldier and even though he was not at service any longer, he always carried with him his rifle so that he had one shoulder lower than the other.33

William Moore military record

Drusilla Weatherford died on January 5, 1842, and William Moore went to live for a while with his son John, as he himself tells his brother in a letter:

“For Thomas Moore or his family, Macoupin, Illinois.

Jackson County, Missouri, July 31st, 1842.

Dear brother,

It is only by the grace of the Almighty Creator that I am still available until this sanctified day and blessed with moderate health considering my age; but I must tell you that Drusilla, my companion of my whole life succumbed to her afflictions, she died last January 5th. Now I am living with John A. Moore, who lives near Travis. The families are in moderated health. Things here are scarcely brilliant. We have had no sales. Our crop of Indian hem and tobacco show very promising, the corn is very good and the wheat passable. We only got twelve and a half cents for each wheat bushel, the climate in the area is quite healthy, except this summer because of the flu and the measles, John was called last night for a case, a relapse for a cold. Sometimes I have news from David Gimlin but not from you, please let me know by a letter how is everybody and I shall feel great satisfaction. I have heard from brother Travis this last spring they are all very well. If my brother Thomas has died, please some relative or friend write to me to let me know immediately on receiving this letter, telling me how the family is, where they live and how they are doing. With the affection, your brother William Moore.”34

Travis G. Moore cabin

This letter is very revealing in many senses, starting from the most evident, that William Moore was a very educated man, he knew how to read and write very well for a man of his social condition – we should not forget that he was just a farmer- and it is demonstrative of a marked religiosity and the sincere expression of romantic love for his wife.

On the other hand, it is the oldest sample of one of the most outstanding features of this family group: the urgency for boosting and maintaining – even in spite of distances and time- a family spirit, an affectionate tie generator of devotions, generosity and solidarity that –as we may see further on- expressed not only through the exchange of dons, services, assistance, visits or just the mere promise of them, attentions and kindness, but also through correspondence and the oral transmission from a generation to the next, of details about the life of our ancestors; a continuous creation of a feeling of a vital adherence to the existence of a family group and their interests.35

An unconscious mandate transmitted through the centuries from a generation to another.

William Moore did not recover from the hard stroke that the death of his wife meant to him and died few months later. He was buried close to her at the small family graveyard behind the cabin they have both built on their arrival from Kentucky.36

In his will he had disposed that all his cattle be sold and his fair debts be paid as his funeral, stated that his slaves Hanna and her sons George and Lewis were to be given to his wife for her help, and they should be rented annually when they were old enough to be rented, and that if his wife lived with any of his sons at her choice; on his wife’s death, Lewis should be given to the heirs of his son Robert, Hanna to his daughter Elizabeth and Lewis to his son John; he disposed of his other slaves – to his son William Henry he gave a boy slave under the name of Walter, to Travis another named Moses, to Louisa and her descendants a girl under the name of Rachel and another to his daughter Martha and her descendants – and stipulated that in each case the money obtained from the selling of those slaves be distributed until all of them received equal shares with no one to be excluded.37

William Moore tombstone

12 Elson, Henry William History of the United States of America, The Mac Millan Company, New York, 1904, p. 60-73

13 Certificate S.16982, U.S. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900 Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com; there is a plaque in the Eastern wall on the building of the Jackson County Court, Missouri, in memory of William Moore as revolutionary and 1812 War soldier.

14 On June 14th, 1775, the Continental Congress voted the creation of the United States Army and ten riflemen companies in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia.

15 Campbell, Charles ed. The Orderly Book of That Portion of the American Army stationed at or near Williamsburg, Va, under the Command of General Andrew Lewis, Richmond, 1860, p.9-10; “the 6th Regiment of Virginians has encamped here in his march towards the North. A group of grubby people, rough, poorly dressed, scarcely armed and undisciplined”, Cresswell, Nicholas, The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777, Lincoln Mac Veagh ed., Dial Press, 1924, p. 163.

16 Williams, Howard McKnight, Great Valley Patriots, McClure Press, Verona, VA, 1976, p.95; Wright, Robert K. The Continental Army, Center of Military History, United State Army, Washington D.C., 1983, p.96; Lesser, Charles H., ed. The Sinews of Independence-Monthly Strength Reports of the Continental Army, p.43

17 Carrington, Henry B. Battles of the American Revolution, 1775-1781, Promontory Press, N.Y., p.278

18 Sweeney, L. H. Amherst County, Virginia in the Revolution, Bell Company, 1951, p.19.

19 Revolutionary War Pension Applications S. 16982, Daughters of the American Revolution Patriot Index.

20 Dunn Richard S. “America in the British Empire “at Foner & Garraty, op. cit.

21 Grinter, John H. “Chapter 2: The Moore Family” part of a wider unpublished work on the Grinter family, Jan 25, 1979; Moore-Weatherford Family Bible; “Moore Family Bible Records” at The Kansas City Genealogist, Heart of America Genealogical Society & Library, June 1st, 1961, p. 5-6; John H. Grinter personal notes; Moore Family Record prepared by Sally Drusilla Moore Grinter; Cabtree, Anita J. Our Moore Family, unpublished work, Upperlake, California, Jan 12, 2003; Grinter, John H. and Bidstrup, Perry “William Moore: Veteran of the Revolutionary War, His Cabin Home and His Family” at Jackson County Historical Society Journal, May 1962, Vol. 3. No. 3, p. 3-5.

22 Charlotte Order Book 5 (1780-1784) at Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly, Ancestry.com; “Orphans and Guardians: the responsibilities and selection of guardians, Interpreting Colonial Records: Legal and Other Helpful Hints (For Genealogists Researching Virginia and the Southern Colonies)” at Baird, Robert W. Bob’s Genealogy Filing Cabinet at www.genfiles.com , requested on May 12, 2012 at 09:14 PM.

23 Martha W. Moore is registered in her parents Bible as Patsy, a very usual nickname for Martha.

24 Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served during the War of 1812, National Archives, at https://www.fold3.com/image/309219877?xid=1945

25 U.S. War of 1812 Service Records, 1812-1815, Ancestry.com (NARA Records. Index to the Compiled Military Service Records for the Volunteer Soldiers Who Served during the War of 1812, Washington DC, M602, 234 rolls, roll box 147); certificate of service, Kentucky Volunteers, United State Army, 1 Aug 1927, Commissioner Rev. & 1812 War Section.

26 Isaac Lemmon, husband of Elizabeth Moore – daughter of William Moore and Drusilla Weatherford – died when he was returning after participating in that Battle, War of 1812 Pension Application Files Index, 1812-1815, roll 57, M 313, pension 12120, at Ancestry.com

27 Johnson, Paul United States. The History, J. Vergara, 2001, p.276

28 Idem above

29 Wilcox, Pearl Jackson County Pioneers, Jackson County Historical Society, Missouri, 1975, p. 63-67.

30 William Moore trunk cabin by the Ess Road is close to his tomb East of Walnut Hill, a house that belonged to the Kemper family, by the Little Blue River”, Jackson, David W. “Portals to the Past: Little Blue Valley holds vistas and history, in The Kansas City Star, 26 and 29 Jul 2006 and “Historical Perspectives: Natural Gems need to be kept” in The Examiner 7-8 Jun 2008, A 5, Jackson County Historical Society

31 Lacour-Gayet, R., op. cit. P. 36-37

32 Idem note 29

33 Idem note 19; A Memorial and biographical record of Kansas City and Jackson County, Mo., Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1896, p.509, at Ancestry.com.

34 Moore Family Papers 1790-1862. Travis Samuel Moore by the time the letter was written lived in Jackson, Monroe County, Missouri; between 1840 and 1860 the hemp industry was successful in Kentucky, Missouri and Illinois due to the strong demand of the fibers for knitting hard canvas and ropes; David Gimlin was married to Mary Polly Moore, one of the daughters of Thomas Guthrie Moore, to whom the letter was addressed.

35 Bordieu, Pierre, Razones Prácticas. Sobre la teoría de la acción, Barcelona, Anagrama, 1997, p. 135-145.

36 Moore Cemetery, Section 12, Township 48 N, range 32, Little Blue Road; currently, there are no visible remains of the tombs except for the two plaques honoring William Moore as a soldier of the War of Revolution and then, corporal in the War of 1812 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/mojackso/moore.htm

37 Jackson County Records, Missouri, Will Book FF, p. 38.

The continuous journey towards the WestWilliam Henry Moore & Mary Moore

William Henry Moore – son of William Moore and Drusilla Weatherford- was born on May 13th, 1797, at Green County, Kentucky and there he married Mary Polly Moore on March 14th, 1818.38

Polly was a very usual nickname for Mary, even though some sources mention her as Mary Elizabeth that comes from the assumption that William T. Moore’s eldest daughter was called after her when she was actually Mary Ellen.39

William Henry Moore

William Henry as well as Mary’s last name was Moore but there was no relationship between them, they both came from different families with the same last name.

Tandy Moore -Mary’s father- was also a farmer and owned some slaves, he had fought as a soldier in the war for Independence and came from an old family from Virginia. His wife, Sally Bridgwater, came from an English family from the same colony.40

Most of the children of William Henry Moore and Mary Moore were born in Kentucky: James Francis, Anderson Weatherford, Mary Adeline, Louisa Winaford, William Tandy, Thomas Henry and Robert M. except the twins John Washington and Sarah Elizabeth, who may have been born in Tennessee, perhaps in Greene County.41

James Francis Moore

Robert M. Moore

Anderson W. Moore

John Washington Moore

Joseph Henry Moore

Sarah Elizabeth Moore

Probably in their way to Missouri they went by Tennessee and Mary could have died there in 1829 when their last sons were born or little later, because in those times the birth usually took place at the home or directly where the parturient was at the moment, even during the journey; the hygiene and asepsis conditions were absent and the attention was limited to a midwife; these deficiencies made the birth and post birth risky for the mother and the child with high rates of morbidity.

Once arrived in Missouri William Henry Moore settled at Pleasant Hill in Cass County, where he bought some 80 acres not very far from where his parents and siblings lived, taking care of the need to provide for him and his numerous offspring, whose mother had not survived.42

38 Dodd, Jordan, op. cit. Tandy Moore & Sally Bridgwater Bible, Fort Concho Museum Archives, San Angelo, Texas, B1, Box1; “Bible of Tandy Moore & Sally Bridgwater (1724-1827)”, Bible Records, Texas DAR Genealogical Records Committee Report, series 2, volume 282, Pocahontas Chapter, 1999, San Angelo, Texas, p. 103-9; William Moore Will.

39 Hudspeth Conrad, Eleanor Annie Laurie The Moores, The Conrad Publishing Co., New Orleans, 1990.

40Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, Genealogical Reference Co., P.O. Box 1554, Owensboro, Kentucky 42301, 1975, p.214 and Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume I, Battle-Perrin-Kniffin, Vol V, 4th ed., 1886. Adair Co.; “Marriage Bonds and Other Marriage Records of Amherst County, Virginia 1763-1800” at Marriage Records of Amherst County 1815-1821 and Subscription for Building St. Mark’s Church Amherst County, VA, Clearfield Company, Inc. By Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD 1999, p.53; Tandy Moore Will, Adair County, KY, Will Book C, Vol I & II, p.763.

41 Tandy Moore & Sally Bridgwater’s Bible; Crabtree, Anita J., op. cit.

42 Certificates 26.519 and 26.770 U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907 at Ancestry.com; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes. http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/. Springfield, Virginia: Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States, 2007.

In search of the promised landWillian Henry Moore & Nancy Logan

On October 5th, 1829, William Henry Moore married again, to Nancy Logan43, that used to turn imperative for the time standards, because it was considered that only a woman could take care of children, and he was a still very young widower and with nine children under the age of ten.

After this new marriage new children came to their home: Benjamin Logan, Susanna D., Missouri Ann, Louis D., Travis Jefferson, America Jane, Joseph Henry and Elijah Sharp.44

America Jane Moore

Nancy Celia Moore

It is very likely that William Henry Moore in Missouri, like the rest of the family, worked as a farmer, but he soon was prey to the thirst of adventure and started another journey farther west still.

Several circumstances made him decide to depart, and even though the possibility to obtain an improvement in his economy was very important it was not the only incentive. It is true that the unattractive life conditions at the place of origin played their part, but also the spell of the unknown region influenced in them as in many other thousands and thousands of Americans.

The expansion to the west is the history of an incessant renewal of the society, of a reiterative starting all over again and on advancing; what was known as the conquest of the west, where numerous typical characters forged at the impulse of that adventure. Despite their original condition as farmers the Moores fulfilled different tasks in their random lives, since the specialized trades were left aside in a place where individualism or group labor, without work division, was the most secure way to achieve success.45

Of course, the territory whose conquest they fought was not at all inhabited and we cannot forget that before that alluvion diverse indigenous communities peopled the area. That encounter of different cultures was not always such but unfortunately most of the times a shock in which the original cultures were the ones to lose. In many of the pioneers grew a bitter feeling against the Indians as a result of the killings suffered in their hands, even though they also expressed their rage against the fur hunters, who supplied the natives with hard liquors and fire guns. The hope of the colonists was to attract as many friends and families as possible, because a bigger number would offer greater security and would help increase the value of their possessions.

Those were lives full of adventures but very tough. The farmers were one of the first groups to arrive in each new area, alone or in groups, going into mountains and woods, preparing the land openings and trails, building their humble and rustic dwellings and working, trying to get fruits from the land.

The Moores had been regarded as having certain marks identifying the typical American: pragmatism, optimism, individualism, creativity and curiosity, as a result of the continuous expansion towards the west.

William Henry Moore together with his family and many friends and neighbors undertook the trip encouraged by the news received on abundant fields, big rivers and richness that could be found and the hospitality of the old Spanish settlers from California to the Yankee immigrants.

Each spring usually by late May the immigrants arrived in Missouri, camped their tents and organized their wagons, waiting for the grass to grow enough so that their well-fed oxen could bear the passage. It was not a trip for very poor people, since only the wagon cost was a hundred dollars, a fortune at that time, and the total cost of the journey was around a thousand dollars.

“The departure of the caravan, usually with the first rays of dawn, was very attractive. The noise and the disorder mixed very picturesque […] The column extended over a mile. The wagons were in groups of four or five […]. Men almost always followed on foot […]. All wearing the same kind of clothes: red shirt with adhered collar, coarse wool jacket with big pockets almost to their knees, trousers tight with boots, leather belt, big felt hat and, most important, a loaded gun, a hunting knife and a dagger.”46

Each member of the party guided his pack mule, his blanket and other travel accessories and as per testimonies men were more tough, rough, brave and active than their mules and were in better conditions than the animals at the end of the long run.

“At sunset […] the tents were unfolded, men went to find firewood and water, and women started the cooking. If they had no salt or pepper, they did not need to worry, they just had to take mule meat, spice it up with gun powder and burn it a bit: men would find the preparation perfect. At night, the pleasant hour of the day, some meditated and read the Bible, around the fire they talked, joked, laughed; some wrote letters that they trusted to deliver at the first post; idylls were initiated, there were dances and above all, singing.”47

The trip usually took three to six months and each wave of pioneers found remains of the previous expeditions, possessions discarded for being too heavy for the oxen to drag them, bones of animals dead by dehydration or exhaustion and tombs, many tombs.

They had some encounters with the Indians, but none particularly too violent. At the middle of the trip an Indian chief came close to the caravan and offered William H. Moore buffalo skins and horses in exchange for his little daughter Missouri Ann, offer he turned down politely.48

After near 1,250 miles from the start, they arrived in Fort Hall by the margins of the Snake River, farther on opened another path towards California. Up to that point the route was very well marked, but from there on it was only a trace. The group of William Henry Moore and his family decided to go to California while the others took the path towards Oregon. There are several versions on when and how they reached their destination.49

If we have into account that Elijah Sharp Moore was born in October 1844 when the family still lived in Missouri and that the caravans usually departed in spring, we may well deduce that they left around the boreal spring 1845 and end of 1847 – because Martha Rebecca Moore was born in California by the end of that year – thus it is likely that they arrived in 1846 as most of the liable sources indicate.50

“Comparing with previous years, 1846 may be named as the year of the great migration to California and Oregon, from May to July probably at least two thousand persons took the way to the Forts Laramie and Bridger and it is likely that five hundred men, women and children crossed the Sierra Nevada through the Truckee towards California (thus) it is totally impossible to track the movement of numerous groups of 1846 immigrants or even mention the names of all the most prominent pioneers.”51

Missouri Ann Moore used to tell that in the journey to California even though she was very small, they let her mount a horse under the condition that she had to collaborate with the men in keeping the cattle close to the caravan, and she almost died drowned in the Sweetwater River, and she saved her life because her shirt inflated as a lifeguard. She also told that in crossing the Yuma river she found a piece of brilliant rock big as a finger and she kept it, but her father threw it again to the water to avoid carrying too much weight. Long time after that, when they thought that it might have been gold, long before the rush for the metal unleashed, her father compensated her with a hundred-dollar bill.52

“At that time California was almost unknown: barely a detailed map had been drawn. Some tales from travelers, a book or two had attracted attention to her from the people, but it did not have the same attraction as Oregon at that time. Be that as it may, before the discovery of gold had spread as the thunder roar, not too many had gone in that direction” among them our Moores.53

California was still part of Mexico but due to the distance the area known as Alta California had no significant Mexican authorities, on the contrary, the power was in the hands of a group of local families of Spanish origin, who sensed themselves different to the Mexicans and who had their power and welfare were based on the huge properties they possessed.

By 1845 there were already some eight hundred Americans in Alta California whose ambitious presence began causing concern to those families and in autumn that year rumors spread that the Mexican authorities planned to expulse the new colonists. The news put into alert a group of Americans and the following year some of them went armed to the small fort in Sonoma and demanded the surrender of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and proclaimed the Independence of the ephemeral Republic of California and hoisted the Bear’s flag. Soon the US naval troops arrived at the coast of California and that banner was replaced by the US flag, putting thus an end to the short existence of an independent California.

After these episodes William Henry Moore settled in Sonoma, acquired some land and dedicated to agriculture and livestock. Sonoma was then scarcely populated, most of the population was rural and was not even recognized as a city; mining, the main activity of the state, was there practically unknown but the agriculture was not only to subsist but together with the farmers and ranchers of neighboring counties supplied these things to San Francisco, Sacramento and the mining areas. Most of the properties were family farms, while the cattle breeding was in the hands of some few producers who used native labor, and with exception of the potato cultivation, the farmers diverted their activities to a great variety of crops and sheep, goat, pig, lamb and other farm animals like ducks, hens and geese.54

One of the most memorable judicial cases in which the first Alcalde of Sonoma Lilburn Boggs tried was one filed May 15, 1849, by William Henry Moore against Frederick G. Blume claiming 700 dollars for the sale of 100 heads of cattle, it was a long case that finally Moore won, he ended up by collecting a total of 1,704.50 dollars.55

William Henry Moore was a regular customer at the Blue Wing Inn, known then as Sonoma House, a building made around 1840 by General Vallejo, used as a hotel, general store and tavern where neighbors and passengers met.

In California Martha Rebecca and Nancy Celia were born, the last children of William Henry Moore and his second wife Nancy Logan, who died in November 1851 after the birth of her last daughter.56

Shortly after, William Henry Moore – following the Biblical mandate it is not good that man stay alone, re-married for the third time to the widow Jane C. (Melson) Parker, what was not surprising then because a widower usually would not take care of his youngest children.

In 1853 a great party was celebrated at the ranch of the family Moore in Sonoma for the double wedding of America Jane Moore – daughter of William Henry- and Henrietta Parker –daughter of his wife with the brothers Commodore Cornelius Fulton Elliot and Alberon Elliot.57

The migration of Americans to California was massive and William Henry Moore saw many of his old neighbors, friends and acquaintances from Missouri settle there as well, like James Lawrence, William H. Taylor, Andrew Wilson, the Cookes, the Lewis, Hopper, Bryant, English and Farmer.58

William Henry Moore signature in a letter to his son James F. Moore, 1856

In the following year William H. Moore moved to Santa Rosa and there he was an active member of the Masonic Lodge No. 57, one of the first in being organized when the Grand Lodge had barely started in California and arose parallelly with the growth and transformation of Santa Rosa in the county seat. The organization of lodges in Sonoma during pioneer days widened the social field and added interest to early life in the beautiful valley.59

In his free time William Henry Moore enjoyed hunting in the mountains with his son Benjamin Logan, chasing bears, deer and moose. In 1857 Anderson paid him a visit – another of his sons, who lived in Oregon- who stayed longer than expected due to a sickness, but he promised to return in the spring of the next year, with the idea to settle there because he had liked the place and had even bought some land.60

America Jane, Sarah Elizabeth, Missouri Ann and Mary Adeline Moore

In the autumn of 1858 William sold his properties in Santa Rosa and moved north, near Clearlake –Napa County then- and lived there by the end of that decade with his wife Jane, two sons of her previous marriage and his younger son Elijah Sharp Moore.61

In 1861 William H. Moore and his wife made a Declaration of Homestead regarding the titles of the piece of land they occupied in Scotts Creek, being their neighbors G. W. Warden, W.T. Moore and Benjamin L. Moore.62

There he spent the last ten years of his life, he had a small farm and cultivated maize, potatoes and apples with remarkable success, and some cattle.63

Little after his voting registration in 1867 he got sick and died. He was visited by a doctor almost every day since May 18th till his death.

“Death of an old Pioneer: an old resident of Lake County died in his place in Scotts Valley at 6 o’clock in the morning last Monday, July 8th at the age of 70 […] he was born in the State of Kentucky, still very young moved to Missouri, from where he migrated to California facing the huge dangers of settling there by 1846. He first settled at Sonoma where he resided permanently until he moved to Lake County […], he was a strict and ordered member of the Baptist Church, and an honorable mason, members of whose order rendered tribute at his tomb.”64

By will he left his scarce possessions –his 160 acres lot, some furniture and cattle valued in 1,800 dollars– to his youngest son Elijah S. Moore. There were some discrepancies with his widow that were finally solved by means of a payment of a sum of money and the delivery of some movables to Jane.65

43 Hudspeth Conrad, op. cit. Mentions that this marriage took place in Jackson County, Missouri, but it was not possible to find documental evidence, maybe the marriage was celebrated in Tennessee, because that’s where Nancy Logan and the last two children from W. H. Moore’s first wife were born.

44 Crabtree, Anita J., op. cit.

45 Billington, Ray Allen Westward Expansion, Vols I and II, The Mac Millan Co., New York, 1967.

46 Lacourt-Gayet, Robert, op. cit. P. 124-125.

47 Idem previous note.

48 Jarvis Tooby, op.cit.

49 Heald, William Thomas “The Heald Family thus settled Healdsburg”, Chapter XX, at The Heldburg Enterprise, June 1918; Nobles, Isabelle C. “Cloverdale then and now: Being a History of Cloverdale, Its Environs, and Families”, Cloverdale Historical Society, 1982, p.219; Jarvis Tooby, op. cit.

50 “The Early American Pioneers” at The Old Settlers of Sonoma Valley, Daily Alta California, No. 275, 4 Oct 1859; Bancroft, Hubert Howe California Pioneer Register and Index, 1542-1848, including inhabitants of California 1769-1800 and List of Pioneers, Reg. Pub. Co., Baltimore, 1964; Bancroft, Hubert Howe The Works Vol. XXI, History of California, vol. 4, 1840-1845, San Francisco, 1886, A.L. Bancroft & Publishers, p. 744; Parmalee, Robert D. “Pioneer Sonoma” at The Sonoma Index Tribune, Sonoma, 1972, p. 73; Hittell, John S. “Notes of California Pioneers” at Hatching’s California Magazine, November 1860, vo. 5, p. 209-210.

51 Hunt, Rockwell, D. (ed.) California and Californians, Vol. 2, The Lewis Publishing Co., New York, 1926, p. 56-7

52 Heald, op. cit. These memories have no documental proof; The Record Union, Nov 3, 1889, and The Sunday Union, Nov 3, 1889, have the same version from William Boggs, who mentioned that the Moores might have been the first discoverers of gold in California.

53 Lacour Gayet, op. cit., p. 122.

54 On Apr 13 1849 he bought two parcels in the city of Sonoma of 80 m2 each and in 1850 some 40 acres in the outskirts, Sonoma County, Grant Book A, Lots 32 and 153, p. 132 and 95, Grant Book 2, p. 58, Lot 535; he had 42 cultivated acres and 34 uncultivated with a value of U$S 5,000, 4 horses, 4 milky cows, 6 oxen, 6 various animals, 11 sheep and 55 pigs for a total value of U$S 2,570, 1850 Federal Non-Population Census, Sonoma, California; 96: 17; Roll: 17; Page: 51; Line: 03; Agriculture.Ancestry.com; Parmalee, op. cit. p. 84-5; Harris, Dennis (d) Redwood Empire. Social History Project. California State Census-1852, Department of History, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, 1983, p. 97-104.

55 “Justice dispensed at the Sonoma Pueblo” at Finley, Ernest Latimer History of Sonoma County, California, Santa Rosa, Press Democrat Pub. Co., 1937, p. 234.

56 Crabtree, Anita J., op. cit.

57 Daily Alta California, Dec 24, 1852.

58 According to the 1840 General Census, Charles English, Elijah and Richard Elliot, James Lawrence, W. H. Taylor, Andrew Wilson and Bryant, Hopper, Cooke, Farmer and Lewis lived in Van Buren County (Cass) and William Bill Turner, William Elliot, Lewis and a Bryant in Clay County, both counties bordering with Jackson County; letter of William Henry Moore to his son James Francis Moore, Nov 25, 1857.

59 William Moore joined the Lodge Dec 1, 1854, asked to be released on Sep 18, 1858. Before that was member of the Temple Lodge n. 14 F.& A.M. known as Sonoma Lodge created Apr 26, 1851, he was in the first meeting, Minetti, Charles History of Santa Rosa Lodge No. 57 F. & A.M. instituted June 16, 1854, 1854-1965, p. 1-3 and 85; Finley, op. cit. p. 310-312.

60 Letters of William Henry Moore to his son James Francis Moore, Jan 25, 1856, Jul 12, 1857, and Nov 1857.

61 1860 Federal Census, California, County of Napa, Clearlake Township, all his children go to school, he possesses movable property for some US $ 500 and estates for US $ 298; 160 acres, 32 cultivated for US $ 500, 8 horses, 4 milky cows, other 2 animals and 15 hogs for a total value of US $ 290 and he had produced 150 corn bushels, 1860 Federal Non-Population Census, Clearlake, Napa, California, Archive Collection Number: 96:18; Roll: 18; Page: 5; Line: 21; Schedule Agriculture at Ancestry.com.

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