Bibb County  Georgia Obits  Kingman Moore

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The obituary to follow was published in the 
Macon Daily Telegraph, Tuesday, January 10, 1922.  

Kingman Moore

VETERAN MACON PHYSICIAN DIES

Dr. K. P. Moore Will Be Buried Here This Afternoon

END COMES IN FLORIDA

Widely Known As Surgeon and Was Confederate Soldier

Funeral services over the body of Dr. Kingman Porter
Moore will be held at the Cherokee Heights Baptist church
at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon, Rev. W. H. Sledge
officiating.  Internment will be in Riverside Cemetery.
The body arrived in Macon at 5 o'clock this morning from
Pompano, Fla., where Dr. Moore died Sunday night at the
home of a daughter and where he had gone two weeks ago in
quest of health.

Members of the Macon Medical Society will attend the
services, Dr. J. P. Holmes, president of the society,
having notified all members to be present.  Dr. Moore
practiced medicine and surgery in Macon for more than
thirty-five years, having in recent years conducted a
private sanitarium on Washington avenue.  He served as
secretary, vice president and president of the Georgia
Medical Society and was an honorary member of the Fellow
of the American College of Surgeons.  He was one of the
first surgeons of the South to resort to the knife in
appendicitis and was the author of a number of creditable
articles on medicine and surgery.  Dr. Moore was active
in the establishment of Macon Hospital, served on the
first medical board and for years on the visiting staff
of the institution.

Was Confederate Soldier

Dr. Moore was born May 5, 1844, the son of Rev. David H.
and Mrs. Susan Callaway Moore.  His father was a Baptist
minister who served in many Middle Georgia churches.  Dr.
Moore was reared in Pike and Monroe counties.  At 17 he
entered the Confederate army, serving throughout the
conflict between the States excepting a few months on
sick leave.  Dr. Moore emerged from the war with an old
grey horse and ten cents.  In a bitter struggle for
higher education he farmed and taught school, bending his
spare time to the study of medicine.  He graduated from
Atlanta Medical College and from Baltimore Medical
College in 1868.  Dr. Moore first practiced in Knoxville,
Crawford county, then in Forsyth, coming to Macon in
1888.  While in Knoxville, Dr. Moore served as worshipful
master of the Masonic lodge.

Dr. Moore, known to hundreds for his medical skill, was
known to hundreds as a Christian gentleman and an ardent
worker in the Baptist church.  While living in Forsyth he
was president of the trustees of the Monroe Female
College, now Bessie Tift College.  He successfully
solicited funds in New York and Boston for the rebuilding
of the school after a heavy fire loss.  He was
instrumental in the organization of Mable White church
and a charter member of the Cherokee Heights Baptist
church.

Members of His Family

Dr. Moore was married January 19, 1867, to Miss Sarah
Milner, who survives him.  To this union were born three
sons, Dr. J. M. Moore with whom the senior Dr. Moore made
his home here; Crawford Moore, also of Macon, and K.
Colquitt Moore of Ocala, Fla., and three daughters, Mrs
J. N. Jelks, of Pompano; Mrs. C. M. Brittain, of
Jacksonville, and Mrs. Carl W. Steed, now dead.  He is
also survived by two brothers and two sisters, Dr. A. S.
Moore and Attorney L. D. Moore of Macon; Mrs. Jennie
Jackson, of Thomaston, Ga., and Mrs. Laura Ellison, of
Dothan, Ala.

(Errata:  Dr. Moore had no son named Crawford Moore.) 

Kingman Moore was my greatgrandfather.  

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