Pike-Bibb County GaArchives Obituaries.....Moore, Kingman Porter January 8, 1922
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Macon Weekly Telegraph,  January 10, 1922

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. Interment 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 Fellows 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 arthur of a number of credible 
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 medical 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, lending 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 1848 [?]. 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 in [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 Mabel 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. Brittian, 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.


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