Goodspeed's Biography of J. Fletcher Moore, Grant Co, AR

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        Date: 27 Jul 2003

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J. Fletcher Moore, of whom honorable mention should be made, was
born in Guilford County, N. C., November 29, 1825, and is the son of
Alpha P. and Anna D. (Guinn) Moore, both natives of North Carolina. 
The senior Moore was a teacher and planter, residing in Guilford
County up to 1834, when he located in Henry County, Tenn., and moved
to Mississippi in 1843, settling in Chickasaw County, and afterward
in Calhoun County.  He died in the Confederate service, at Columbus,
Ky., and his wife survived him until 1885, dying at Grant County,
Ark.  Fletcher Moore grew to maturity in Tennessee, remaining with
his father until about twenty-four years old.  In 1853 he moved to
Arkansas, locating in what is now Grant County, and on the same
section of land where he now resides.  That he has made a success of
farming, is clearly demonstrated by the fine condition his place is
now in.  He has 300 acres in one tract, and about seventy-five under
a high state of cultivation.  Good stables, sheds, etc., and a nice
comfortable  house, are among the conveniences.  An excellent
orchard of peaches and apples have shown by their returns what care
and cultivation can do.  Mr. Moore was first married, in
Mississippi, January 30, 1850, to Martha C. Clements, a native of
Alabama, and a daughter of John Clements.  In 1876 she died, leaving
five children to the care of their father.  Two years later Mr.
Moore again married, this time Mrs. McElroy (nee Holland), of
Independence County, Ark.  Five children have blessed this union.
Mr. and Mrs. Moore are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, in which he is steward.  He has served four consecutive terms
as justice of his township, and is also an influential member of the
school board.  Although Mr. Moore has a large family of his own, he
has reared and educated six orphans, giving them all the advantages
that his own children received, and while he fain would hide his
good acts under a bushel, it would be impossible to do so, as there
are many acts of charity and benevolence that may never reach the
ears of the outside world:  howbeit they are thoroughly appreciated
by those on whom they are conferred.