CHOWAN COUNTY, NC - Obituary - Hon. Augustus Minton Moore, 1902.

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                          DEATH OF HON. A. M. MOORE

(Handwritten notation - died 24th April 1902)

"It is our sad duty to chronicle the death of Hon. Augustus Minton Moore, 
which occurred in this town (Edenton) at 10 o'clock this orning, carrying 
sorrow to every home and heart in our community, where he was known only to 
be loved and honored for hs many noble traits of head and heart.

Judge Moore was in the 61st year of his age, and was a son of Hon. Augustus 
Moore, of Chowan county, who was one of the Superor Court Judges of our 
State anddied several years before the civil war.

In 1861, having just graduated with distinction at the University of North 
Carolina, he entered the Confederate army whose flag he followed faithfully 
to the end of the struggle, being most of the time a member of Badham's 
Battery of artillery.

After thoroughly preparing himself for the bar, he began the practice of 
the law in Edenton, his native town, in 1866, from whence he removed to 
Greenville in 1882.  His great ability and learning in his profession and 
his fidelity to duty won for him a large clientage.

In 1889, he was appointed to a land agency under the administration of 
President Harrison, when he removed to the west, first settling in South 
Dakota and soon afterward in the State of Washington.  Here he pursued the 
practice of the profession, winning the confidence and love and esteem of 
the people, as he had done in his old home.  In the latter State he was 
elected from the county of his residence to the legislature in which he 
served with distincion.

About seven years ago Judge Moore obeyed the yearning of his heart for his 
old associations, and, quitting the west he returned to live the remainder 
of his days in our town where he and his excellent wife had made and 
retained so many warm friendships.  In 1890 he was appointed by Gov. 
Russell as Judge of the Criminal Courts in the Eastern Criminal Circuit of 
North Carolina, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the lamented 
Judge Battle.  In this position his legal learning, his ripe and accurate 
judgement and his fairness and impartiality won for him the respect and 
esteem of the bar and the people, and gave him deservedly a high reputation 
as a judicial officer throughout the State.  To the regret of his host of 
friends of all shades of political creed and of all classes, he was from 
serious (torn) health compelled to resign his (torn)---ship in the spring 
of 1901.

Judge Moore was three times married.  He leaves a son and  married (word 
married crossed out).  His last wife, who was Mrs. Mary A. Roberts, nee 
Bond, survives him.  Tenderly and with ever watchful,ever loving care, this 
devoted wife has been his guardian angel through his declining strength 
which began about five years ago, and their union, through all the eighteen 
years of their married life, has been (to use his own language) "one long 
honeymoon." In his last illness this devotion was touchngly and beautifully 
manifest.

Judge Moore was a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and had a firm 
and abding faith in the teaching and promises of the scriptures, and his 
life was exceptionally pure, upright and honorable.  He held an unshaken 
hope that a blessed immortality awaited him, and we have every reason to 
feel and believe that this hope was well grounded.  "Mark the perfect man 
and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace."


[Note: It is in my grandfather's bible, no doubt sent to my gr-grandmother 
who was sister to the wife of Augustus Moore.--  Dixie]