Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Moore, John H. 1930
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Friday, March 14, 1930
Funeral services for John H. Moore will be held from the home, 665 North 
Jackson street, Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock and from the Methodist Episcopal 
church at 2:30.  Interment will take place in Highland Park cemetery.  Mr. 
Moore, a pioneer of this section, died Thursday evening after several days’ 
illness following a stroke.

He was born August 9, 1854, at Farmington.  His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob 
Moore, came to Ionia when John was a lad of 20.  They lived in the village for 
a time and while constructing a little log house on the farm they purchased 
shortly after their arrival in this locality.  John frequently accompanied his 
father to the farm, a densely wooded area, untouched by ax or saw.  Frequently 
both would climb up on a fallen tree on a slight knoll near the road where the 
father would discuss with his son the site of the new home they were planning 
to build.  One day the father said, “Well, Johnnie, I think we will clear a 
spot right here for our home.”

The house eventually was built and stood until this winter as a monument to 
the efforts of the pioneer and his son.  This winter it was town down.  It 
served after the passing of Uncle Jacob, as the father was familiarly called, 
as the home of John Moore for many years and as the birthplace for the 
latter’s three sons, Jacob and Ralph, of Ionia, and L. Winters Moore, of 
Pewamo.  After living on the farm 46 years, John Moore in turn sold it to his 
son, Jacob, and bought the old Rich farm on the Steele road, a half mile away, 
where he resided until he sold the place to another son, Ralph, and moved to 
his home on Jackson street in August, 1927.

He lived in the era when oxen were used for motive power and many acres in the 
vicinity of his rural home were cleared by him with the assistance of these 
faithful beasts.

For several years he became engaged with his father in the manufacture and 
installation of chain pumps, the firm being known as J. Moore & Son.  Some of 
the pumps they installed still are in use.  As a side line to farming, he 
maintained an apiary, and one year obtained six tons of honey.  After his 
retirement he continued to keep bees and every fall took a great pride in the 
neat cases of white clover honey he delivered to his patrons about the city.

He was an ardent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, a kind and 
considerate husband, a companionable father, and a friend to all in need of 
his services.

He leaves his widow, to whom he was married 43 years ago March 23; three sons, 
a sister, Mrs. Hannah Haight, of Detroit, the sole survivor of the four 
children of Jacob Moore, and eight grandchildren.


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