Lauderdale County AlArchives Biographies.....Moore, H. McVay 1835 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 January 6, 2012, 12:25 pm Source: See below Author: Smith & De Land, publishers H. McVAY MOORE, the subject of this sketch, was born in Lauderdale County, Ala., May 15, 1835. He was the eldest of five children (all boys). His parents were Lewis C. and Attie P. (McVay) Moore, both now deceased. All of the five sons served in the Southern Army until the close of the war. John M. was killed near Pulaski, Tenn., under General Forrest. Samuel H. was killed at second Manassas. J. Polk died January 10, 1887. Lewis C., the only surviving brother; was a member of the Fourth Alabama Cavalry, is now engaged in farming near his old homestead. H. McVay Moore was educated at the schools of Florence, and followed farming until the outbreak of the war. April 28, 1861, he enlisted in Company H, Fourth Alabama Infantry, as a private, and served under General Lee in the Virginia army to the close of the war. He participated in all of the battles of that army. He was also with General Longstreet in Tennessee. He was wounded at Gaines' Farm, Chickamauga, Gettysburg and Cold Harbor. At the latter place he was so severely wounded that he has never fully recovered. At the close of the war he returned to his old home and engaged in farming, ginning and milling. His father was killed by a Tory in 1863. Mr. Moore was appointed Sheriff of Lauderdale County in July, 1887, to fill out the unexpired term of J. W. White, deceased. He was married near where he now lives, four and a half miles north of Florence, April 4, 1866, to Miss Fannie E. Rice. Mr. Moore's grandfather, the late Hon. Hugh McVay, represented Lauderdale County in the legislature from 1821 to 1824, inclusive, as Senator, and again in 1828 and 1829; also from 1832 to 1836, inclusive; and 1838 to 1848, inclusive; and was in the lower house in 1820. 1826, 1830, 1831. He was a member of the Convention at Huntsville, in 1819, which framed the first Constitution of Alabama, and, as president of the Senate in 1836, became ex-offirio Governor on the resignation of Governor Clay, who was elected to the United States Senate. Another writer has said of him in this connection. "His messages were unpretending, plain, frank and honest, in keeping with his whole character from the time he entered public life, in the zenith of his manhood, to an advanced age when he voluntarily retired." He died in 1850, at about 85 years of age. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land 1888 PART IV. MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA, TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lauderdale/bios/moore977gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb