Carroll County GaArchives Biographies.....MOORE, JAMES D. 1814 - ************************************************ 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: Elizabeth Robertson lrober@plantationcable.net July 27, 2004, 6:31 pm Author: S. Emmett Lucas, Jr. JAMES D. MOORE, farmer, Whitesburg, Carroll Co., Ga., son of Abraham andAnn (Dismukes) Moore, was born near Raleigh, N. C, in 1814. His paternal grandfather was Abraham Moore, who was a soldier in the revolutionary army. His maternal grandparents, George and Elizabeth (Thompson) Dismukes, were North Carolinians, and his grandfather Dismukes served through the revolutionary war as a major in the patriot army. Mr. Moore's father was born and reared in North Carolina, but his father and mother died, and he was left an orphan when a very small child and was reared in Pittsboro, N. c., in the home of his grandfather Dismukes. He learned but little from his books but was taught to work, and thanks to his inborn will-power and energy has made a success. In 1834 when twenty years of age he came to Georgia and settled in Carroll county. The following fall he located where he now lives, where for many miles around the clearings were few and far between. He came to Georgia with a horse and a pair of saddle-bags; now he has 1,800 acres of good land lying on the Chattahoochee river, on which he has one of the most productive and best improved farms in all that section, and ranks as one of the most substantial and reliable citizens, as well as one of the best farmers in Carroll county. During the war a small battle was fought on his farm, during which shot and shell flew thick and fast all about. All the windows in his house were shattered, and there remains a hole in the wall of his house where one shell, coming into a window, passed out on the opposite side. Fortunately no one about the premises was hurt. Mr. Moore has owned a ferry across the Chattahoochee River at this place from the time he first settled there. On one occasion he was getting some parties across the river who were fleeing before the Federal army, among them Mr. William Amos, when the skirmish began. Before the boat reached the opposite shore the troops reached the river and fired upon the passengers. Mr. Amos fell by his side, but he stood by them and the boat, and at the risk of his own life saved them In 1837 Mr. Moore was married to Mrs. Caroline (nee Martin) Malone, daughter of Benjamin Martin, of Jones county, granddaughter of Mr. Lester, of the same county. Mr. and Mrs. Moore were the parents of seven children, five of whom are living: Mrs. W. A. Parks; Mrs. Robert Early; Mrs. W. W. Kelly; George W., deceased; James D., Jr.; Dr. John F., deceased, and Benjamin F., The two surviving sons, J. D. and B. F. Moore, are hardware merchants of the Moore & Handley Hardware company, Birmingham, Ala. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/carroll/bios/gbs85moore.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb