Caldwell-Daviess County MO Archives History .....MOSES ORR FAMILY  
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THE MOSES ORR FAMILY IN DAVIESS COUNTY AND 
	LATER IN CALDWELL COUNTY, HAMILTON TWP.
	Narrators:  Mrs. Emma Cox and Walter Orr

     This turned out to be a very choice narration, for Moses Orr was born 
March 12 1833 in Daviess county, a rare date for a birth in Daviess or 
Caldwell county.  His parent's names have been lost by the years but we know 
that they were among the earliest settlers in Daviess county, very near the 
Caldwell co. line.  Moses lived there till five years after his marriage to 
Eliza Brunk daughter of Jake Brunk also a pioneer family of Daviess county, 
near the Breckenridge township line.  For a while, Moses rented a farm, and he 
lived on what was then the Stubbs farm but which now is incorporated into what 
is known as the Foley farm.
     Walter Orr says that while there the mother of Moses lived with them and 
died there and was buried in a burial plot on the place in which others had 
been buried also, perhaps a dozen, without stones.  Other old old people also 
speak of this small graveyard at the Foley place, which is now under the 
foundation of a barn.  No one knows who are buried there, except that this old 
pioneer, mother of Moses Orr lies there.
     Other old country cemeteries in south Daviess county are full of Orrs, 
for they were a numerous family.  There is surely one of them buried in the 
old Morton (Charlie) burial ground which has since been plowed under.  When 
Mr. Morton sold out, he moved his own dead.  Moses Orr moved to Caldwell 
county about the Civil War in which he served on the Union side.  He bought 
land 40 acres at first from the railroad three miles S.W. of Hamilton and 
later bought another 40.  He lived there 65 years and the place is still Orr 
land.  The first house was three rooms - two on floor and one above, sort of a 
garret, where the children slept.  It was made of boards put up and down and 
narrow boards nailed over the cracks.
     They had no chimney for years, but the stove pipe went up thru the roof, 
as did many houses.
     They had no church advantages and rarely went to church.  Rev. Bitner 
held revival meetings in the school house and many were converted and baptized 
in the Mapes Crossing (Ford) creek.
     The older Orr boys went to Dodge school for none was nearer, but as time 
went on, Mill Creek was divided from Dodge and they went to Mill Creek 
school.  Mill Creek in earlier time was a little frame on the same road of the 
present Mill Creek school but a half mile east.  Some of the earlier teachers 
at Mill Creek were Charlie Dosset, Cora Netsher, a Mr. Theilman, Miss Harris, 
now of Cowgill.
     The children of Mose Orr and Eliza Brunk were:
Jane Orr married James            Ed married Carry
Will married Blakely              Emma married Cox
Charles married McDaniels         Fred unmarried
Harriet married Shaw              Tom married Misenhelter
Alice married Blades              Walter married Guffey
Florence unmarried.
     Interview  1935.


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