Montgomery County AlArchives Biographies.....Moses McLemore 1857 - 
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Author: Memorial Record of Alabama (a book) published in 1893.
MOSES McLEMORE, a prominent planter of Montgomery county, was born in this
county in 1857. He is a son of Andrew J. and Sarah C. (Smith) McLemore, the
former native of Jones county, Ga., the latter of Orangeburgh district, S. C
 Andrew J. McLemore came with his parents to Alabama about 1820, received a
common school education, and married Margaret Caffey, who died leaving three
daughters. In 1854 Mr. Mclemore married again, and spent the rest of his
life in the vicinity of Moses McLemore's present home. He owned a fine
plantation, and negroes, was never in public life nor performed any military
service. He was well read and had a large fund of information. ,He was for
many years a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and died in 1870, aged
fifty-five. His father was the Rev. James McLemore, a Missionary Baptist
Minister, who came from Georgia to Alabama about 1820, and followed the
ministry in this state for many years., He is said to have built the first
church in Montgomery county. He was a Virginian by birth, and died before
Moses McLemore was born, greatly loved by his people. His wife survived him
by a number of years. She was an energetic woman, and attended the
plantation affairs very successfully. They raised a large family of sons and
daughters, only two of the daughters now surviving.(in1893). The mother of
Moses McLemore is still living. She is a daughter of Jacob and Mary Smith,
natives of South Carolina, where they lived all their lives. Mrs. McLemore
came to Alabama with an uncle, Daniel Rast, who settled in Lowndes. She is
the mother of four Children, viz.: Mary, Moses, Laura A. and Sterling Price.
Moses was educated at the county schools and at Montgomery, and at the age
of seventeen began life for himself as a farmer. He married, in 1890, Annie
Benom Tanner, daughter of L. H. and Ophelia A. Tanner, who came from Georgia
to Alabama. Mr. Tanner died at Union Springs, and Mrs. Tanner is still
living. Mrs. McLemore was born in Tuskegee, Ala. Mr. McLemore is one of the
leading farmers in the county, owning 2,900 acres of fine farming land. He
has followed farming all his life, and for some years he also carried on
merchandising, and ran a cotton gin. When he started in life he had but a
few hundred dollars, inherited from his father's estate; now he is worth
many thousands of dollars, all of which, with the exception just mentioned,
he has acquired by his own industry and economy.

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