MONROE COUNTY, GA - BIOGRAPHIES   E.M. Moore

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'MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA", Historical and Biographical Sketches, by S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., PUBLISHED IN 1896.

Typed by Donna Wall

E. M. MOORE, planter, Forsyth, Monroe C., Ga., son of John
and Nancy (Curry) Moore, was born in Monroe county, June 15,
1827.  His grandfather, Elijah Moore, migrated from Maryland
to Georgia in the latter part of the last century, and
settled in Baldwin county, where he died.  His father was
born in Maryland in January 1792, came to Baldwin county
with his father, where he grew to manhood.  was married in
Hancock county in 1813 to Miss Nancy Curry (of Irish
descent), who was born and raised there.  Ten children were
born to them, of which eight were raised to maturity:  James
C., deceased; Narcissus, widow of David Davis, Stewart Co.,
GA.; Mary, widow of D. M. Davison, Pike county, Ala; E. R.,
planter, Bossier Parish, La.,;  B. F.,, deceased; E. M., the
subject of this sketch;  Jemima, deceased wife of Robert
McGinty; John C., enlisted in Confederate service in 1862,
and was killed in the battle of Fredericksburg.  Mr. Moore's
parents lived in Baldwin county until 1826, when they
removed to Monroe county and settled eight miles south of
Forsyth, where they lived until their death--that of the
father occurring in 1870, and that of the mother in 1871.
Both were members of the Primitive Baptist church.  Mr.
Moore was of quiet and retiring disposition, caring nothing
for politics except voting for his democratic friends; had
no use for courts, and was so good a manger as to accumulate
a handsome estate. He is reputed to have seen some service
in the war of 1812.  E. M. Moore, the subject of this
sketch, has passed his life in Monroe, at the homestead
where he was born, and lived the life of a farmer.  In
November, 1855, he was married to Miss Ann, daughter of
Duncan and Mary(Holmes) MCGowen, Monroe county, by whom he
has had ten children: Dodie, wife of J. R. Worsham, Monroe
county; John t., cotton factor, Macon, Ga.,:  B. M.,
planter, Monroe county; James M., at home; Lelia, at home:
Annie, deceased wife of J. A. Smith, Houston county, Ga.,;
Alice, wife of D. M. Owen, Athens, Tenn.; Gussie, at home.
During the war he was in the state militia, for home
defence, and was detailed to help on the farm.  Mr. Moore
has a fine 1,250-acre plantation---reduced to that by giving
off tracts from time to time to his children.  He is a
quiet, sociable and sensible country gentleman, looks
carefully after his farm interest, and is complanionable
around his own hearthstone.  His stock is sleek, his barns
and corn cribs are never empty ---"he lives at home." He is
a democrat and a Primitive Baptist.