OBIT:  JAMES C. MOORE  The Daily Courier, Thursday, February 20, 1919
Connellsville, PA, Fayette Co.

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The Daily courier, Thursday, February 20 1919, 
Connellsville Pa, Fayette Co.

JAMES C. MOORE DIES

James C. Moore 69 years old, a prominent coal operator and a resident of
Vanderbilt for many years died this morning at 5:20 o’clock at his home
following a brief illness.  Mr. Moore had been ailing for the past
month.  However, he was able to be about as usual and his condition did
not become alarming until about 11 o’clock last night just after he had
gone into the kitchen for a drink of water.  Heart trouble was the
immediate cause of his death.  Mr. Moore was born on a farm in Dunbar
township, October 30, 1849, a son of James and Sarah Herbert Moore.  His
paternal grandfather, James Moore, was a native of Massachusetts, coming
at an early age to Fayette county where he died.  James C. Moore was
reared on a farm and educated in the common schools of Dunbar township.
At the age of 21 years he commenced work on his own account in the coal
mines, for some years as a common laborer, and for 12 years was a mining
boss.  He held a certificate of service granted November 1885 which
constituted him mining boss for James Cochran’s Sons & Company,
Vanderbilt.  He also held a certificate of competency as a mining boss
for any draft bituminous coal mine in the state of Pennsylvania, granted
him a short time afterwards.  Mr. Moore was owner of the New Geneva Coal
& Fuel company of New Geneva, was interested in the Hecia Coke company,
Pittsburg and had extensive coal holdings in West Virginia.  Of late
years he had lived retired and his coal works at New Geneva were
operated by his sons, Robert E. and Nelson Moore.  December 26, 1872,
Mr. Moore was married to Sarah A. Strickler, a daughter of Mr. & Mrs.
Henry Strickler of Lower Tyrone township.  In addition to his widow, he
is survived by four sons.  George Moore, who recently was honorably
discharged from the Army; Phillip C. Moore of Pittsburg; Robert E. and
Nelson Moore of New Geneva; and two daughters, Miss Grace Moore at home,
and Miss Marie Moore, who with her aunt, Mrs. Sarah B. Cochran of St.
James Park, and a party of tourists is in route to California, and will
not be able to arrive home in time for the funeral.  The deceased is
also survived by three sisters, Mrs. Sarah B. Cochran, St. James Park;
Mrs. N. A. Rist, Tucson, Ariz; Mrs. W. J. Lowstutter, Norfolk, Mass, and
two brothers, W. H. Moore of Dawson, and H. B. Moore of St. James Park.
Mr. Moore was a member of the Christian church at Vanderbilt and for a
number of years was a deacon in the church.  He was also a member of the
Royal Arcanum, the Knights of Pythias, the Junior Order, United American
Mechanics, and had passed all of the chairs of the Mystic Chain and
Knights of Pythias.  Mr. Moore was highly esteemed by all who knew him
and in his death Vanderbilt has lost one of its most widely known
citizens.

Friday, February 21, 1919, The Daily Courier, 
Connellsville Pa, Fayette Co.

JAMES C. MOORE FUNERAL

The funeral of James C. Moore will be held from his family residence at
Vanderbilt tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock.  The services and interment
in Cochran cemetery at Dawson will be private.