Muscogee County GaArchives Biographies.....Montague M. Moore October 14 1837 - Unknown
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Author: Memoirs of Ga., Vol. II, 1895

Memoirs of Ga., Vol. II
Published by the Atlanta Historical Society in 1895
Page 624-626

Montague M. Moore


Montague M. Moore, Clerk of the City Council of Columbus, Ga., was born in that 
city Oct. 14, 1837, the son of James S. and Martha M.A. (Tarver) Moore.  He is 
the eldest of three surviving sons, the other two of whom, James B. and George 
T., reside in the state of Texas, four sisters and four brothers being dead.  
The gentleman whose name heads this article had four brothers who saw service 
in the Confederate army during the civil war, viz.: Tiffany T. Moore, a member 
of the Columbus Volunteers, and afterward in the Confederate service on the 
Chattahoochee river, James B. Moore, who was a member of the Seventeenth 
Georgia Regiment, and was made a Major of Infantry and served throughout the 
war; Douglas C. Moore, who enlisted in January, 1861, served three months at 
Pensacola, Fla., and then enlisted in the Columbus Volunteers, was made an 
Orderly Sergeant, and was killed in a railroad accident when the company left 
Columbus, Aug. 14, 1861; and George T. Moore, who enlisted in Gen. John H. 
Morgan’s command and served under that renowned cavalryman to the close of 
hostilities.  Montague M. Moore received a good education in the schools of 
Columbus, but before finishing his studies accepted a position in the Columbus 
Post Office under Col. Robert C. Forsyth, where he remained from 1855 to 1863.  
In 1861 he enlisted in the Columbus Volunteers and was assigned to the 
Seventeenth Georgia Regiment, but, owing to ill health, he saw no service.  
Later he was a lieutenant in a company of the militia reserve of Georgia and 
did service at Macon and Atlanta.  In July 1863, he was elected Clerk of the 
City Council of Columbus, and retained that position while in the military 
service of his state, and since then to the present he has been re-elected by 
the people or by the city council to the same position.  He married, June 16, 
1869, Miss Sarah E., daughter of John and Elizabeth (Jordan) Peabody, of 
Columbus, and this union has been blessed by the birth of five children, viz.: 
James M., Mary P., Lulu D., John P., and Ethel T.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Moore are 
members of St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal Church South.  Mr. Moore is a Knight 
Templar Mason and was recorder of St. Aldemar commandery for many years, and 
until it ceased to exist was master of Adoniram Lodge of Perfection.  He is 
also a member of these fraternal orders: Knights of Honor, K. of L. of Honor, 
Ancient Order of United Workmen, Royal Arcanum, National Union, and the 
Improved Order of Red Men.  Of the ancestors of Mr. Moore, Killian Hogeboom 
came to this country from Holland about the year 1712 and settled in the state 
of New York, in what is now Columbia County, where the original manor house is 
still standing and in the possession of his descendants, the present owner 
being the uncle of the gentleman whose name heads this article.  Jeremiah, the 
eldest son of Killian, was born in Holland, April 5, 1712.  He married Janita 
Van Allen, Nov. 11, 1741, and to them were born six children, the second of 
whom, Stephen, was born Aug. 16, 1744, and married Nov. 24, 1763, Hellitje 
Muller.  He was for several terms a member of the assembly and senate of the 
State of New York, and of its constitutional convention in 1801; he died April 
2, 1814, and his wife died March 10, 1812.  To them were born six children, one 
of whom was the mother of Gen. James Watson Webb, and one, Nancy, born July 22, 
1774, married Benjamin Moore, and was the mother of nine children.  She died 
April 14, 1844, and he, born Jan. 28, 1766, died Nov. 29, 1829.  James S. 
Moore, the father of Montague M. Moore, was the sixth child of Benjamin and 
Nancy (Hogeboom) Moore, and born May 6, 1800, in Coxsackie, Greene Co., N.Y.; 
came to New Orleans in 1831 and to Columbus, Ga., in 1832; married March 1, 
1835, and died in Lee County, Ala., near Columbus, Ga., on March 24, 1879, a 
consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He followed merchandising 
in Columbus, Ga. and Girard, Ala., until 1858, when he removed to Auburn, Ala., 
and kept a public hotel eight years, thence removing to Lee County, Ala., where 
he followed the business of agriculture until the year of his death.  Prior to 
the civil war he was postmaster at Girard, Ala. for many years.  Mrs. Martha 
M.A. Moore, wife of James S. Moore, was born in Clinton, Jones Co., Ga., Nov. 
3, 1815, and was a daughter of Elisha and Maria L. (Sanders) Tarver.  Her 
father, Elisha, son of Billison and Selah Tarver, was born Dec. 25, 1787, and 
died March 18, 1860.  Her mother, Maria L. Tarver, was born Aug. 6, 1793, and 
died Sept. 9, 1851.  Of the ancestors of Mrs. M.M. Moore, Francis Peabody, of 
St. Albans, England, born 1614, came to New England in 1635.  He married Mary 
Foster, daughter of Reginald Foster, whose family is honorably mentioned in the 
Lay of the Last Minstrel and in Marmion by Sir Walter Scott.  She died April 9, 
1705.  He died Feb. 19, 1697.  They were the parents of fourteen children, of 
whom the eldest, John, was born in 1642; married, first, Hannah Andrews, Nov. 
23, 1665; she died Dec. 4, 1702, and he married Sarah Moseley, Nov. 26, 1703.  
To his first wife were born ten children, of whom David was born July 12, 1678, 
and married Sarah Pope, of Dartmouth, Mass.  He died April 1, 1726, and his 
widow died Sept. 29, 1756.  They had eleven children, the first, Thomas, being 
the direct ancestor of Mrs. Moore, while the tenth, David, was the grandfather 
of George Peabody, Esq., of London.  Thomas was born Sept. 22, 1705, and 
married Ruth Osgood, of Andover, Mass., Nov. 2, 1738.  He died in April 1758.  
His widow married Isaac Osgood, and died in February 1803.  Thomas was the 
father of nine children, the last, Nathan, born Aug. 31, 1756, married Polly 
Baker, July 30, 1786.  Nathan was the father of John, the father of Mrs. Moore, 
who was born in Boston, Dec. 13, 1790, married in Washington County, Ga., 
Elizabeth Coles Jordan (afterward Hodges), June 7, 1826, and died in Columbus, 
Ga., Sept. 17, 1842.  His wife, daughter of Jesse and Jane Jordan, was born in 
Washington County, Ga., June 25, 1809, and died Nov. 5, 1878, in Columbus, Ga.



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