Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Moore, Henry Dannelly October 13 1838 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   HENRY DANNELLY MOORE, D. D., was born at Abbeville, S. C., October 13, 1838.
His father was Rev. James Moore, who was born at Charleston, S. C., and who was
a son of James Moore, a native of north Ireland who came to Charleston in the
early portion of his life and died there. Rev. James Moore was born December 24,
1799, and died in Abbeville, September 2, 1863. He grew to manhood in
Charleston, and was educated there. He married Miss Ann Fisher, a native of
Liverpool, England, who came to the United States with her parents, who first
settled in Norfolk, Va., but later removed to Charleston, S. C., where they
died. She was born in 1800, came to this country in 1812, and became the mother
of thirteen children. One daughter and four sons lived to maturity, viz.:
Joseph, Anna, William, Edwin and Henry Dannelly. The parents of these children
removed to Abbeville, S. C., where the mother died, August 29, 1862. In 1830
Rev. James Moore was ordained a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church, and
when that church was divided, in 1844, adhered to that part of it now known as
the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and remained in its ministry until his
death. He and his wife were people of marked characteristics. He was
whole-souled, large hearted and hospitable, and his memory is revered in the
history of Methodism in South Carolina. His wife was a pure and devout woman,
and both she and her husband were for many years highly useful and highly
esteemed citizens of Abbeville, and they may be said to have been the founders
of the Methodist church in Abbeville. Dr. Moore grew to manhood at Abbeville,
and after taking a preparatory course of study, he was sent to the South
Carolina Military academy at Columbia in 1853, and later to the Military academy
at Charleston. In December, 1857, he was admitted to membership in the South
Carolina annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He was at
first assigned to the Union circuit, and in 1861 he was at the town of Manning,
S. C., where his military education was brought into use in drilling soldiers,
who entered the Confederate army. In July, 1863, he went into the army from
Sumter station, of which he was then in charge, as chaplain of the Twelfth
Alabama infantry, in which position he remained until the close of the war. In
1865, he was transferred from the South Carolina to the Florida conference, and
while a member of this conference served as preacher in charge of the Albany,
Ga., station until 1869. While at Albany he became a member of the south Georgia
conference. In 1869, he was elected president of Levert Female college at
Talbotton, Ga., remaining there until July, 1872, when he was elected president
of the Alabama Conference Female college, at Tuskegee, Ala. His membership was
then transferred to the Alabama conference, in which he was presiding elder
during 1876, 1877 and 1878. From 1879 to 1882, he was in charge of the First
Methodist Episcopal church, south, of Mobile, Ala., and while in this charge the
degree of D. D., was conferred upon him by the state university at Tuscaloosa,
Ala. From 1883 to 1887, he was in charge of the Methodist Episcopal church,
south, at Prattville, Ala., and from January, 1887, to January, 1890, he had
charge of the First Methodist Episcopal church, of Montgomery, Ala., the only
Methodist church in that city. In January, 1891, he took charge of the Selma
Methodist Episcopal church, south, where he has since remained. He has been
married twice, first, in 1859, to Miss Carrie B. Thomason of Orangeburg
district, S. C., by whom he had two daughters and two sons. He married for the
second wife, in July, 1874, Miss Caroline Tait, of Wilcox county, Ala., a
daughter of Hon. Felix Tait, by whom he has four children. He is a royal arch
Mason, and also an Odd Fellow. In 1878 he was delegate from the Alabama
conference to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south.
He has been a regular correspondent of the press of his church, and is now in
charge of the Epworth league department, of the Alabama Christian Advocate. To
whatever work he has been called by his church, whether as educator or pastor,
he has faithfully and successfully performed the duties imposed upon him. He is
one of the ablest men in the church in Alabama, and has had charge of the most
important churches in the state.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 891-892
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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