Lincoln County TN Archives Biographies.....Moores, W. L. 1842 - 
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Author: Goodspeed

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MOORES, SUGG, FOX, McCOLLUM, BUTLER



Dr. W. L. MOORES, a physician of the Thirteenth District, was born in

Lincoln County, Tenn., in 1842, and was one of two children born to William

H. and Elizabeth (SUGG) MOORES.  The father was of Welsh origin and was

born in Lincoln County, Tenn., about 1820.  He was a tiller of the soil,

and died in 1845.  The mother of our subject was of English origin, born in

Robertson County, Tenn., in 1801, and died in 1874.  Our subject received a

good literary education in the counties of Lincoln and Giles.  In 1862, he

enlisted in Freeman's battery, and took part in the battle of Parker's

Cross-roads, and other minor engagements.  He was captured while sick at

home, July, 1863, and taken to Camp Chase, where he remained seven months,

after which he was conveyed to Fort Delaware and remained there a year. In

June, 1865, he began the study of medicine and at the end of a year and a

half entered the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, where it

required three years to complete the course, but owing to his rapid

progress was allowed by the faculty to take all his examinations at the end

of the second year, and received his diploma in 1867.  In the same year he

married Sarah J., daughter of Mill and Lucretia (FOX) McCOLLUM, her mother

being a cousin of Gen. B. F. BUTLER.  Mrs. MOORES was born in Giles County,

July 5, 1844, and by her marriage became the mother of six children: Cyrus

L., James A., Ira, Edna, Matt W., and William C.  Dr. MOORES has always

been an active energetic man, and has a large and increasing practice.  He

has met with commendable success and is continually laboring for the good

of the people.  He is postmaster at Cyruston, and this office has been in

the hands of the family for fifty years.  He is a Mason, a K. of H., and a

member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is secretary of the same.

Mrs. MOORES is a member of the Presbyterian Church.  Dr. MOORES has a small

farm where he resides, and has a fine young orchard.  He is making a

specialty of the study of horticulture, and he also has on his place a

fish-pond and is a pisciculturist to some extent.





Additional Comments:
From Goodspeed's "History of Tennessee"





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