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Author: Goodspeed

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MOORES, SMITH, WILSON, RUTH



J. K. MOORES, farmer, was born in the Thirteenth District, where he now

resides, and is one of nine children born to his parents, Daniel and

Elizabeth MOORES.  The father was born in New Jersey in 1789, and came to

Lincoln County with his parents when but nineteen years of age.  He

followed agricultural pursuits and was married in 1816.  He was a soldier

in the war of 1812, and died in 1849.  The mother of our subject was born

in the southern part of Pennsylvania in 1796, and died in October, 1876.

Our subject was reared at home, received his early education in the country

schools and afterward completed at Viny Grove Academy.  In 1856 he wedded

Louisa SMITH, a native of Lincoln County, born in 1839, and a daughter of

the well known Constant and Margaret SMITH.  By this union our subject

became the father of four sons:  John, now living in Obion County, Tenn.;

Knox and Cyrus, in Texas; and Ross, who still remains with his father.  Mr.

MOORES taught school for some time, and after marriage located on the old

homeplace, where he has since resided.  In 1868 his wife died, and in 1872

he wedded Mrs. D. J. WILSON, who was born in Lincoln County in 1837, and

who is the daughter of Maj. and Elizabeth RUTH.  The result of our

subject's marriage was the birth of two children:  Astor and Bessie.  He is

a Democrat in politics, a Mason, and he and wife are members of the

Cumberland Presbyterian Church.



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From Goodspeed's "History of Tennessee"





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