Coffee County AlArchives Biographies.....Moore, William H. 1846 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    WILLIAM H. MOORE, planter of Elba, was born in Pike county Ga., in 1846. He
is the son of Joel and Martha (Miller) Moore, also natives of Pike county, Ga.,
where Mr. Moore lived most of his life, dying, however, at Chattanooga, Tenn,
during the war. Five of his sons also served in the Confederate army, doing
honorable service. Both he and wife were Primitive Baptists. In 1865 after the
war Mrs. Moore and the children removed to Coffee county, Ala., where she died
in 1876. John Moore, the paternal grandfather of William H., was a native of
South Carolina, married there and then came to Pike county, Ga., where he reared
a large family and died. He was a hard working and honest man and accumulated
quite a fortune. William H. Moore is the sixth of eleven children, eight sons
and three daughters, viz. ; Milton Oliver, who belonged to the Barnesville Blues
of Georgia and was killed at Seven Pines; John, who served all through the war
in the Virginia army, was once wounded and was killed at Ozark, Ala., in 1891;
James, who was in the Twenty-seventh Georgia, was captured at Chickamauga, and
confined at Point Lookout, Md., and is now deceased; Lewis Thomas, who was in
the Twenty-seventh Georgia, and was also at Point Lookout as a prisoner and now
lives in Chambers county; William H.; Mary J.. wife M. C. Crocker; Perry
Franklin of Florida; Boss; Sam Houston of Texas; Pellie, wife of Jesse Kemp, and
Mary J., who died young. William H. Moore was reared on a farm and received but
limited education. In 1864 he joined the Twenty-seventh Georgia infantry, and
after a short service in that command served in Wheeler's cavalry till the close
of the war, surrendering, at Macon, Ga. In 1865 he came with the rest of the
family to Coffee county, Ala., and in 1871 married Martha A., daughter of Thomas
and Leonora Cleghorn, who were reared in Alabama. Mr. Cleghorn, is now a
resident of Coffee county, where his wife died. He was in the late war. He had
been justice of the peace and was once sheriff of Coffee county. Mrs. Moore is
the mother of twelve children; Minnie Lee, Martha Elizabeth, John Milton Oliver,
William Joel, Perry Franklin, James Horace, Amanda Lavinia, Phenie May, Ernest,
Thomas Grover Cleveland, Lillie Belle, and Carrie Lenora. Mr. Moore lived some
miles above Elba until 1891, when he removed to his present farm one end a half
miles southwest of Elba, where he has three hundred and eighty-three acres of
good land, about one hundred of which are under cultivation. He began life with
nothing, settling in the woods when first married. He is a hard-working and
industrious, honest man and both he and wife are members of the Primitive
Baptist church.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 677-678

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