BIO: CHARLES MOORE - b., 1814 - Woodford County, Ky Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 13:22:00 -0700 From: "Linda Katherine Jenkins-Wensel" ************************************************************************ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ I am typing and posting Biographies for the Monroe County, IN, home page located at: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/In/MonroeBios . Some of the subjects of the Bio's or their parents or spouses were from KY. I will slowly go through them and post them here. In the meantime, if you go to the above listed address, you can search for the ones already posted. Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. Monroe County Biographical Sketches, Richland Township, p. 634-635 Charles MOORE, stock-raiser and farmer, was born in Woodford County, Ky., April 10, 1814, and is a son of Charles and Nancy (JAMES) MOORE, natives of Virginia, and of English extraction, who moved to Kentucky, where Mr. MOORE died, and whence Mrs. MOORE returned to Virginia, and there married Joseph COPENHAVER, after which they removed to this County, in 1832, where Mrs. COPENHAVER died in 1835. Our subject was reared to industry, and began to make his own way when seventeen years old by clearing and chopping. June 3, 1835, he married Miss Elizabeth COPENHAVER, a union honored by eighteen children, of which number are living - Tillman H., Taylor S., William, James M., Charles L., Clara L., Lizzie and Carrie. After marriage, Mr. MOORE farmed on rented land, and afterward procured eighty acres of his own, which he improved. He was diligent, economical, and made sure headway, adding to his possession until he owned 600 acres, which he sold in 1852, and purchased his present place of 240 acres, now one of the best farms in the township. Mr. MOORE is one of the most substantial farmers and citizens of these parts, and is in politics an active Republican. He and wife are members of honor of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Data Entry Volunteer - Linda Jenkins Wensel