Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Moore, William W., 1936 

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WILLIAM WIRT MOORE

   William Wirt Moore died Wednesday morning, February 12, at the home of his 
brother, John E. Moore, in Jackson, N.C.  He was born November 17, 1852, at 
the old Moore homestead near Nottoway Chapel, Southampton County, the son of 
the late George E. and Mrs. Nancy Story Moore.

   In 1896 he married Mrs. Nannie Virginia Horne, who died in 1914.  He was 
preceded to the grave many years ago by two sisters, the Misses Kate and 
Pattie Moore.  His only brother, John E. Moore, with whom he had been making 
his home for the past four years because of ill health, is the sole surviving 
member of his immediate family.

   Mr. Moore was a promoter of the first telephone company in Southampton 
County and later installed the system.

   He was a faithful member of the Nottoway Chapel Methodist Church from his 
early youth.  He served as a steward of Nottoway Chapel and as superintendent 
of its Sunday school for more than fifty years.  His consistent religious life 
was ever an influence for good and an uplift to the community in which he 
lived.

   Although he lived alone at his ancestral home for many years, because of 
his deep literary taste, his love of nature and his scientific turn of mind, 
he never experienced the loneliness many would have known under similar 
circumstances.  Besides his brother, Mr. Moore is survived by three nieces; 
five nephews and a wide family connection.

   Funeral services for Mr. Moore were held from the Holland Funeral Home in 
Franklin Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, conducted by his Pastor, Rev. 
A.W. Roten of Courtland, assisted by Rev. Henry W. Davis of Franklin High 
Street Methodist Church.  Burial took place in Nottoway Chapel Cemetery.  The 
pallbearers were: Dr. Ashley Cutchins, Joe Bynum Gay, E.Whitfield, Lucius M. 
Manry, W.H. Lankford, G.C. Kirkland, Dr. W.T. McLemore and W.J. Sebrell.


William Wirt MOORE, installed the first telephone system in Southampton Co., 
b. 17 Nov 1852, near Nottoway Chapel, 
d. 12 Feb 1936, at bro's home, Jackson, NC, 
interred in Nottoway Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery*, 13 Feb 1936, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 14, 1936 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS}, Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 2 (II-58): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol2.txt 

His marriage record - 

William W. Moore, 44, s, So.Co., So.Co., s/o George and Nancy B. Moore, Farmer 
m. 04-15-1897 Residence of the husband by Rev. C.C. Wertenbaker 
Nancy "Nannie" V. Laine Horn, 33, w, So.Co., So.Co., 
   d/o Bushrod W. and Virginia A. Laine 
[Nannie 1m. 01-02-1889 Franklin T. Horne, s/o Archer & Mary (So.Co. MB6:160)] 
(Southampton Co. MB9:160; transcribed & annotated by Bruce Saunders: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/vitals/mb09pt.txt) 



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