Boyle County KyArchives Biographies.....Moore, James Wesley ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandi Gorin http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00002.html#0000404 July 14, 2008, 9:09 am Author: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume 5 Battle-Perrin-Kniffin, 4th ed. Boyle Co. JAMES WESLEY MOORE (deceased) was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, and, while yet a young man, removed to Danville, Ky. He entered in Capt. Grave’s company, Sixteenth Kentucky Infantry, in the Mexican war, and died at Camp Mier on the Rio Grande during his term of service. He was the son of William Moore, a native of Ireland, who married Elizabeth Banford. Their union was favored by the birth of John B., James W., Elizabeth (Stanley and Ellsworth), Hannah (Davis), Samuel A. and Mrs. White. In 1833 James W. married Eliza A., daughter of James and Mary (McMullen) Trumbull, of Danville, Ky. (born in 1816, died December 14, 1875), and to them were born James W. (deceased), John B. (deceased), Mary J. (Bedford), William H., Elizabeth S., Martha E. (deceased), Irvin W., Samuel F. and Nancy D. (deceased). Mary J. Redford’s [sic ] shown both spellings] children are Kate (Threlkeld), Joseph F., William A. and James W. William H. Moore’s children are Robert E. and James W. Irvin W. and Samuel F. are in active partnership in farming and stock dealing, having 200 acres of productive land. They are members of the Presbyterian Church, and in politics Democrats and prohibitionists. Miss Elizabeth S. Moore is a Methodist. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/boyle/bios/moore477gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/