Baldwin-Bibb County GaArchives Biographies.....Moore, Jere & Adrianne 1860 - 1952 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Kristina Simms ktina1@windstream.net January 2, 2008, 3:16 pm Author: Kristina Simms MOORE (Prepared by Kristina Moore Simms, 200 Bristol Street, Apt. 36, Perry GA 31069. June 2004) On February 2, 1860, Henrietta Micklejohn, age 21, daughter of Robert Micklejohn and Mary Jane Sewell Micklejohn, was married to Jeremiah Neuville Moore, age 24 in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia. They were my great-grandparents and your "ancestors." Both were town-dwellers at a time when the majority of Georgia’s population was still involved in agriculture. Henrietta’s father, Robert, was Justice of the Peace in Milledgeville. Jere Moore had been working at the printing trade since he was 12 years old. Henrietta probably had plenty of experience at cooking, sewing, and taking care of her younger siblings in sickness and in health. Nobody got to just sit back and rest very much in those days! A woman’s work was never done---or a man’s either! Both Henrietta and Jere were then, or would become, members of the Methodist Church. There is a memorial stained glass window in the First United Methodist Church in Milledgeville dedicated to the two of them. Henrietta would wear long dresses to church on Sunday--- and every other day as well. Clothing, including underwear, was made at home or by a local seamstress or tailor. Milledgeville, in 1860, was the capital of Georgia and its population was a little over 9,000 souls.# Baldwin County was founded in 1803 and on the same day -- May 11, 1803 -- legislation was passed in Louisville, GA, then the state capital, to survey and choose a suitable site for Milledgeville. On Dec. 12, 1804, Milledgeville became the capital, but it wasn’t until 1807 that a new capitol building was ready to be occupied. The treasury and public records of the state were then carried from Louisville to Milledgeville in 15 wagons.# Living in the state’s new capital city was the place to be, if you couldn’t be in Savannah or Augusta! The city of Milledgeville buzzed with political and social activity. Younger readers, bear in mind that all transportation was by steam locomotive or horse-drawn carriage or mule-drawn wagon. There was no electricity, and consequently no electric stoves, refrigerators, air-conditioning or other electrically-powered items that we consider to be necessities today. Cooking was done on wood stoves and heating was mostly from wood or coal burning fireplaces. Savannah might have some cobblestone streets or brick sidewalks, but in Georgia’s interior all the roads were just plain dirt, punctuated by the droppings of the animals that pulled the conveyances. They were muddy when it rained, dusty when it didn’t, and often heavily rutted from wagon wheels. People who lived in town often owned farm property outside the city limits. Having a garden in your back yard, or a henhouse, or even a cow or two was not unusual. You grew what you ate, or you bought it from someone nearby who had grown it. Grocery stores carried basic items like flour, rice, seasonings, and maybe some cheese and crackers. Often men did the shopping for supplies because their wives did not like the atmosphere in stores where whiskey was also being sold by the shot. Because there was no reliable refrigeration, hams were salted and hung in smoke houses as a means of preservation. Henrietta and Jere were married on the very eve of the Civil War, or War Between the States, as it would be called in the South. In less than a year Georgia would secede from the Union, and on April 12, 1861, the Civil War would begin with the shots fired on Fort Sumter, S.C. After secession, living in the state’s capital city took on a whole different tone. Henrietta’s antecedents have been covered pretty well in the MICKLEJOHN chapter. Let us now consider Jere Neuville Moore’s family history. His father was William Boling Moore, born in Georgia in 1812 (birth date derived from age at death). Earlier researchers stated that William Boling Moore was born in Virginia, but this assumption probably came from a misreading of the handwritten "GA" abbreviation on the 1840 census. In 1900, Jere Neuville Moore, listed then as a "publisher," told census takers that both of his parents were born in Georgia. The word "Georgia" is neatly spelled out, not abbreviated, leaving no doubt what was intended.# Trying to find parents for William Boling Moore and Mary Quinn or O’Quinn has proven a challenge to numerous researchers. Boling Moore, as he was called, was married to Mary Quinn (possibly O’Quinn) on Christmas Day, 1832, in Milledgeville, GA. They were described as "of this place," meaning they were living in the town.# Starting in 1841, Boling worked as manager or "steward" of the State Asylum and had a home there. Mary worked as "matron." I have searched long and hard and cannot find any records that tie her to any Quinn or O’Quinn family in Baldwin County. The only clue is that a Rebecca Quinn is shown living in the next residence to Boling and Mary Moore in the 1840 census. She is possibly mother to Mary. Sadly, Boling Moore died at the age of 32 on June 11, 1844.# No cause of death was given, but I suspect something sudden like a heart attack, because he had no time to prepare a will as he would have in the case of a lingering illness. Tomlinson F. Moore was appointed as the administrator of William Boling Moore’s estate.# Mary Quinn Moore was left with four young children: Jere Neuville (abt. 9), Parazaid Camilla (called "Parry," abt. 7), Thomas Boling (abt. 5), and Emma (abt. 3). She continued with her job at the asylum and, a couple of years later, was married to Willis Vaughn, who was also employed at that institution.# Mary and Willis Vaughn had three children of their own, which made hard-working Mary Quinn Moore Vaughn the mother of seven. In January 1850, Willis Vaughn was appointed to administer the estate of William Boling Moore, replacing Tomlinson F. Moore. This happened because the former administrator, Dr. Tomlinson Fort Moore, a young physician who had grown up in Milledgeville, had been shot and killed in Jacksonville, Telfair County, GA. Who was Dr. Tomlinson Fort Moore, and how did he die? In the 1850 census of Telfair County, his name is listed in the mortality report, cause of death "unknown," even though it was no secret that he had been murdered. I have been down to Telfair County to search the court records, hoping to find some record of a trial, but their books are in such disarray that I couldn’t find anything. I don’t think the man who shot Dr. Moore ever went to trial anyhow. Here is his obituary from the Southern Recorder, Milledgeville, September 18, 1849: "It becomes our painful duty to announce the death of Dr. T. F. Moore, formerly of this place, who was shot in Jacksonville, Telfair County, on the morning of the lst inst in the 26th year of his age. Struck down by a cruel hand in the fresh season of youth and promise he has left a void in the hearts of many…. Dr. Moore has left an aged mother and two devoted sisters in our midst, to mourn through a season of keen and bitter bereavement." Unfortunately the obituary does not provide us with the names of his mother and sisters. I cannot find any estate records. The Macon Telegraph reported that young Dr. Moore had been shot in the back as he was leaving the store of a merchant with whom he had a political disagreement. My guess is that Dr. Tomlinson Fort Moore was the younger brother of William Boling Moore as well as his closest living male relative. He would have been 20 or 21 years old at the time Boling Moore died, and there is no other cogent reason why he was appointed administrator of the estate when barely out of his teens except that he was brother to Boling Moore and uncle to the orphaned children. The best guess I can make about the parentage of William Boling Moore and Tomlinson Fort Moore is that they were both sons of Nubal Moore (Newbill, Neubil, etc) and his wife Mary Matthews Moore of Milledgeville. Nubal Moore appears on the 1828 Tax Digest of Baldwin County. The following legal notice appeared in a Milledgeville newspaper on Saturday, January 15, 1831: "Georgia, Baldwin County, Dr. Tomlinson Fort applies for letters of administration on the estate of Newbal Moore, late of said county, deceased."# "Newbal" apparently died without a will, as I have looked and can’t find one in the records. Who was Dr. Tomlinson Fort? Answer: he was a prominent physician in Milledgeville after whom Dr. Tomlinson Fort Moore was named, and likely a friend of the deceased "Newbal" Moore. It is likely that he was the mentor of the younger doctor. The actual name from which all these strange variations (Nubal, Newbill, Neubil, etc.) keep showing up in official records is Newbold. It is a common family name in the line of John Moore of Somerset County, Maryland, some of whose descendants migrated to Hancock County (now adjacent to Baldwin) in the 1790s.# Ephraim Moore (Maryland to Hancock County, GA) was married to Nancy_____. He and Nancy had five children: Newbold aka Nubal/Newbill etc. (b. ca 1790), William (b. ca 1792), Tabitha (b. ca. 1793), Levin, and Ephraim Jr. (both born sometime before 1800 or 1801. Ephraim was a Justice of the Peace in Hancock County and died ca 1801.# I am not going to include a whole family tree going back to John Moore of Somerset County, Maryland, here because the link I have made to this family is speculative. All of the children of Ephraim and Nancy migrated west from Georgia except Newbold, who married Mary Matthews on 10-4-1810 in Baldwin County.# Recall that William Boling Moore was born in 1812. The timing is right. Also William Boling Moore and his wife Mary Quinn Moore named their oldest son Jeremiah Neuville Moore. I think that "Neuville" is simply another variation on the theme. In the 1850 census, we find a Mrs. Mary Moore, age 59, born in North Carolina, living in Milledgeville with two daughters, Priscilla (29) and Sarah 21). I think this household probably consists of Mary Matthews Moore, widow of Newbold Moore, and her daughters, the "two devoted sisters" of the late Dr. Tomlinson Fort Moore.# The Milledgeville newspaper of Tuesday, June 20, 1854, has the following obituary: "Died, in this city, on Thursday morning, 18th instant, of apoplexy, Mrs. Mary Moore, widow of Neubil Moore, in the 61st year of her age." Her age as listed in the obituary is a little off from the Mary in the 1850 census, but I think the two are probably the same. In the 1857 will of Priscilla J. M. Moore, she leaves to her sister Sarah "now residing with me, all my worldly goods….And I hereby appoint and constitute my friend Dr. Tomlinson Fort…to settle my affairs according to law." # Priscilla would have been 36. I can’t find out what happened to the other daughter, Sarah. If I have reconstructed the history of this family properly, it’s a rather sad story, including several untimely deaths.# Now let’s turn back to back to Jere Neuville Moore. By 1847, at the age most children are in middle school, he was already working at the Federal Union, a newspaper in Milledgeville.# The 1850 census finds "Jerry N. Moore," age 16, printer, living in the home of William Barnes, 36, printer, along with William W. Barnes,16, printer; James Barnes, 14, printer; Martha Barnes, 11; and John Johnson, 19, printer.# Somewhere along the way, Jere got a few years of school, but I imagine that, like the young Benjamin Franklin, he was a precocious youth and gained most of his knowledge from on-the-job training. The Federal Union, coming out of the capital city, was the most influential newspaper in the state and did the printing for the state as well. Jere learned the newspaper business from the ground up. It is likely that he ran errands, delivered papers, collected from subscribers, and learned to hand-set type, letter by letter, early in his career. The linotype machine wasn’t invented until the 1880s. A digression into the history of typesetting will provide a picture of the skills that Jere learned as a teenager: "Each piece [of type] contained a raised image of a single letter, number, or other character. The block of metal that carried the raised image was called the body. The raised image that was inked for printing was called the face – from this we get the term ‘typeface.’ A distribution box was made up of many compartments. The box had enough compartments so that each letter, number, and character was assigned to a specific compartment of their own and lined up in what was called a composing stick until it was almost full. Then, by using pieces of type with no face on them, spaces between the words were adjusted to bring the line to the required length. Each line was placed by hand in a larger box made especially for housing the type. The individual lines were laid out exactly like the page of the newspaper was going to be – except the type was backwards as if looking at it in a mirror." When the ink was applied and the pages were printed, then the content would appear in reverse, i.e. left to right.# There was, of course, no electricity and the printing presses were large, noisy, and powered by steam. About the time the Civil War started, Jere was promoted to "foreman," which meant that he had managerial responsibilities for running the newspaper office and seeing that the newspaper got out on time. During the war years, when the legislature was in session, he was at the office night and day, typesetting crucial speeches that had been made by the governor and other leaders of the breakaway Confederate state of Georgia.# Later in his career, Jere N. Moore bought an interest in the Union-Recorder and became its publisher.# He chaired the county board of education for 15 years and was a trustee of Georgia Military College.# He was a staunch promoter of Milledgeville, and Milledgeville’s interests. Jere N. and Henrietta M. Moore had a large family, which included their own children and some that they adopted. It was a good thing they had a big house on South Jefferson Street in Milledgeville. Eleven children lived to maturity: Mary Virginia (Jenny), born April 18, 1861; Henrietta Lee (Nettie), born October 27, 1862: Effie Alberta, born July 10, 1864; Oconee Birdie, born July 23, 1866; Robert Boling, born February 3, 1869; JEREMIAH MICKLEJOHN (my grandfather, your ancestor) born November 22, 1871; Martha Elizabeth ("Mattie"), born March 4, 1873; Charles Leighton, born April 18, 1875; John Clark, born July 7, 1877; Maybelle, born February 8, 1881; and James Harrison, born May 22, 1882. The two adopted children were Nellie and Flora Underwood, orphaned nieces of Henrietta.# [They were daughters of Lizzie Micklejohn, who married an Underwood.] What a hard-working couple they must have been, and what a strain it had to be trying to provide for the children during the war and Reconstruction years. Henrietta pre-deceased Jere by four years. Her obituary appeared in the Union Recorder on February 8, 1898: "Mrs. Henrietta Micklejohn Moore, wife of J. N. Moore, died at her home in this city, Thursday, February 3rd. About six months ago she had a stroke of paralysis from which she had partially recovered, and her loved ones entertained hopes of her entire recovery. She bore her affliction with beautiful Christian resignation. Her death was sudden and a great shock to her family, relatives and friends. She was sitting at the dinner table as well as usual, when taken with a severe pain in the head and died…half an hour afterwards…She was the mother of eleven children, all of whom with their father and two sisters [Martha Micklejohn Richards Coombs and Mary Micklejohn Caraker] are left to mourn their loss.# In 1900, Jere N. Moore was living on Jackson Street. Living at home with him were: Nettie, age 37 Effie, age 35, teacher Mattie, age 27 [I remember Aunt Matt. She was witty and outspoken. She was still alive and we saw her at Aunt Maybelle’s house when Adrienne and I were at Mercer.] Maybelle, age 19 [Aunt Maybelle and her husband Tom Cater, lived in Macon near Mercer University.] James, age 18, in school Flora Underwood, niece, 27, saleslady# Jere Neuville Moore, a pioneer in Georgia journalism, died on October 21, 1902 in Milledgeville. He worked almost up to the moment of his death. He is listed in the Georgia Newspaper Hall of Fame sponsored by the Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia. My grandfather, Jeremiah Micklejohn Moore, son of Jere N. and Henrietta M. Moore, grew up in Milledgeville, Georgia, where he attended the local school. He also attended Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, but I do not know the length of the program he took or the year he completed his law studies. The late 1890s would be the likely time for him to have been engaged in his studies. In those days qualifications for lawyers, physicians, and other professionals were not as strict as they are today. It was possible for one to go directly from secondary school into a law or medical program rather than taking an undergraduate college degree first. My grandmother, Adrianne Harp, of rural Garden Valley (Macon County),Georgia, attended what was then Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville about the same time. It was here that she met Jere M. Moore, and they were married on December 2, 1901. [The HARP family will be treated in another chapter.] Jere and Adrianne’s Wedding Picture, 1901 Jere M. and Adrianne settled in Adrianne’s home area, Macon County, Georgia. He registered for the draft in WWI but was not called. A copy of the draft card is online at Ancestry.com, but it is too pale to read. They raised their family in a large frame house on North Dooly Street in Montezuma which is now owned by Sidney L. Moore, Jr. and his wife, Yvonne Sutherland. They have done a wonderful job of restoring the old family home. Jere Micklejohn Moore practiced law in Montezuma, Macon County Ga. He died of a heart attack on September 19, 1932. His obituary appeared in the Macon Telegraph: "Jere M. Moore, 59, prominent attorney, died of an acute heart attack early Thursday morning. He had been in failing health for several years. Mr. Moore was nominated for judge of the city court of Oglethorpe in the recent primary. He was a Mason and a lifelong member of the Methodist Church. Survivors include the widow, formerly Mrs. Adrian Harpe [sic]; daughter, Miss Mary Moore, Montezuma; two sons, C. H. and Sidney L. Moore, Chicago; brothers, R. B., C. L. and James H. Moore, of Milledgeville, and John C. Moore, Richmond, Va.; sisters, Mrs. Jennie Brooks, Misses Nettie and Mattie Moore, Milledgeville; Mrs. T. J. Cater, Macon; Mrs. J. B. Rhodes, Richmond, Va. Funeral arrangements have not been made." The children of Jere Micklejohn Moore and Adrianne Harp Moore were: Cleveland Harp Moore (1903-1949, married Alethea Adkins, 1935, in California); Mary McMillan Moore (1910-1980, married Thomas Barton Campbell, 1907-1969); and Sidney Leighton Moore (June 30, 1906-July 23,1952). Cleveland Harp Moore and Alethea Adkins Moore had one daughter, Jere Moore [Papworth], b. in California, 1939. Sidney Moore and Violet Soderquist Moore had four children, all born in Montezuma, Macon County, Georgia. Adrienne Harp Moore [Bond], b. Dec 12, 1933, d. April 23, 1996 Kristina Swanson Moore [Simms], b. Oct. 14, 1936 Charlotte Alexis Moore [Perkins], b. Jan. 10, 1939 Sidney Leighton Moore, Jr., b. July 6, 1940 Mary McMillan Moore and Thomas Campbell had four children: Barton Ray Campbell, b. Oct. 13, 1944 William Harp Campbell, b. June 2, 1946 Mary Ann Campbell [Stone], b. May 29, 1948 Martha Moore Campbell [Nicholson], b. Sept 27, 1949 Sidney L. Moore met Violet May Soderquist, of Waukegan Illinois, in the Chicago area. His attempts to attend college, first at Mercer University and then at the University of Georgia, were interrupted by the financial problems of the time, and he was trying to make a living selling insurance. The great financial depression that started with the 1929 stock market crash had dire effects on many people’s life plans. He and Violet were married at Crown Point, Indiana on May 31, 1931. Not long after they were married, Sidney had an attack of acute appendicitis. He was on the road in Indiana when he became ill. I believe this occurred near Evansville, Indiana. Unfortunately, the same day he became ill, there was also a train derailment nearby, and numerous injured people were being brought into the same hospital where he was taken. This caused his surgery to be delayed until his appendix had ruptured. He developed peritonitis and came close to death. He had to have several more surgeries later to correct the damage and stem the infection. Since this was in the days before antibiotics, his condition became very fragile and he was an invalid for several years at the house in Montezuma. Probably his strong physical condition was what enabled him to survive, rather than the doubtful medical care of the 1930s. He was an excellent golfer and swimmer and liked outdoor activities. He also sang well, played piano by ear, and was reputed to be a deadly bridge player and poker player. Sidney established a law practice in Montezuma by reading for the bar examination. In those days, it was possible to be admitted to the bar in that manner, and a lot of lawyers of his generation took that route. He had an extensive law library and a good practice. He was just beginning to get his law practice going well when World War II began. Because of his age, he was not in the first round of men drafted. He served in civil defense as an air-raid warden. I well remember the "black-outs" we used to have as practice for a possible air raid. During that time many common goods were rationed, including gas, tires, grocery items, and shoes. We were fortunate to have our own large garden and henhouse as well as relatives in Garden Valley who grew a variety of crops and slaughtered hogs in the fall. Sometimes my father was paid with produce or even sausage. On one occasion he was even paid with a can of fishing worms, by a convict he had represented. Sidney L. Moore, Sr. was drafted into World War II in December 1943, even though he was about 37 years old, had a dubious medical history, and was the father of four children. That’s how dire the situation was in 1943. He declined an opportunity to train as an officer because he felt that it might extend his stay in the army. He served in Hawaii and on Guam as a criminal investigator in the military police. He returned home in the fall of 1945: "Sidney Moore, former Montezuma attorney, who received an honorable discharge from the Army September 14th, re-opened his law office in Montezuma this week. Mr. Moore practiced law in Montezuma for eight years before entering the armed service in November 1943. After finishing 17 weeks basic training at the Military Police Replacement Training Center at Ft. Custer, Mr. Moore was selected by the army to attend the Provost Marshal General Criminal Investigation School. After graduating from Criminal Investigation School and doing practical work with the Michigan State Police, Mr. Moore was sent to the Hawaiian Islands where he was assigned to work with the Criminal Investigation Section in connection with the Provost Marshall of Oahu and the Honolulu detective division. During his last six months of service in the army, Mr. Moore was assigned as special investigator to the Provost Marshal of Guam."# He had a busy practice and served as county attorney in Macon County as well as mayor of Montezuma, Georgia, and was a member of numerous civic clubs. For recreation he loved fishing and golf, but after World War II, he said he didn’t like to handle guns any more. We all lived in the family home on North Dooly Street, along with my grandmother, Adrianne Harp Moore [who will be profiled in the HARP chapter]. Sidney L. Moore, Sr. was able to practice law only about seven more years before he died of a heart attack on July 23, 1952.# Before he left Ft. Custer for the Pacific he had experience an episode of what was probably angina or a mild heart attack. He was hospitalized briefly and given the 1943 version of a cardiogram. The military doctors decided he was well enough to ship out. Like many individuals of his generation, Hs life was negatively impacted by the Great Depression, poor medical care, and World War II, but he made every effort to live life to the fullest within the restrictions of his time. Violet Soderquist Moore will be profiled in the SODERQUIST & SWANSON chapter. FOOTNOTES; #1 Baldwin County Historic Population Profile, Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia (website). #2 Story of Georgia’s Capitols and Capital Cities, Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia (website) #3 Twelfth Census of the United States, Milledgeville, GA, p. 202A # 4 From Vol. III, Milledgeville GA clippings from the "Southern Recorder" #5 Huxford, Marriages and Obituaries from Early Georgia Newspapers, p 79. Abstracted from the "Southern Recorder" # 6 Letters of Administration, Baldwin County Book A (1845), p. 81 #7 They were married January 15, 1846. Her obituary appears in "The Union-Recorder" on June 4, 1873. Her pastor, who wrote the obituary, named her first husband as "William Barnes Moore," which is incorrect. #8 Baldwin County, Georgia, Newspaper Clippings, p. 36. # 9 Dan Moore, of Texas, has written an excellent genealogy book entitled The Descendants of John Moore of Somerset County, Maryland which traces the migration and spread of this Moore family. I am donating my copy of Dan’s book to the genealogy room at the Washington Memorial Library in Macon in case anyone wants to consult it. #10 Dan Moore, p. 58 #11 Dan Moore, p. 58 #12 LDS Copies of Census on Ancestry.com #13 Microfilm, Baldwin County records, Washington Memorial Library, Macon GA #14 A problem with Baldwin County research is that there are no land records earlier than 1861. They were either lost by fire or trashed when the Union troops came through. Land records could help resolve a lot of 19th century Baldwin County genealogical problems. #15 Moore Children, p 3.1. This is a privately printed genealogical collection collected and edited by Edwina Simpson. Some of the information originally appeared in Our Children’s Ancestry, by Sarah Cantey Allen, pp. 470-473. #16 Baldwin County, GA, LDS copies of census, on Ancestry.com #17 R. J. Brown, "A Capsule History of Typesetting." The complete article can be found on HistoryBuff.com on the internet. #18 Moore Children, p. 3.1 #19 A history of the Union Recorder can be found in the Feb. 15, 1979 "159th Anniversary Issue, p. 4 # 20 Moore Children, p. 3.1 #21 Moore Children, p. 3.2 #22 Moore Children, p. 3.3 #23 Twelfth Census of the United States, Baldwin County, GA., 1900, p. 292A #24 Citizen & Georgian, Montezuma GA, Sept. 20, 1945, p. 1 #25 Obituary appears in the Macon Telegraph, July 24, 1952, p. 5Am Photo: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/baldwin/photos/bios/moore944gbs.jpg File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/baldwin/bios/moore944gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 27.7 Kb