| 1802 |
John Mayfield Moore is born in Abbeville District, South Carolina, March 15, 1802, the son of Lewellen Moore and Priscilla Thornton. |
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| 1813 |
Lewellen Moore and his wife Priscilla Thornton Moore attended church across the Savannah River at the Vann's Creek Baptist Church, Elbert County, Georgia. On March 13, 1813 Lewellen "applied for liberty to exercise the gift we hope God has given him, and liberty was given him to exercise in the boundary of the church." |
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| 1818 |
In 1818 Lewellen Moore and his wife Priscilla Thornton Moore along with their children joined other relatives and moved to Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. |
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| 1821 |
Lewellen Moore moves his family again to Fayette County several miles north of the Fayette Courthouse. Lewellen, who was often called Uncle Lewis or Father Moore, was a Primitive Baptist preacher serving the Hopewell Baptist Church. |
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| 1829 |
John Mayfield Moore, son of Lewellen and Priscilla Moore, marries Marinda White Paden. |
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| 1830 |
Biddie Thornton Moore is born in October of 1830 to John Mayfield Moore and his wife Marinda, the first of what will be thirteen children. |
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| 1840 |
In the early 1840s, the family moved to Bellefountaine, Mississippi, located in Choctaw County (now Webster County), where the family lived until after the Civil War. |
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| 1851 |
Lewellen Moore, a Primitive Baptist preacher serving the Hopewell Baptist Church, dies. E. A. Powell said of him: "He was a man without any education, yet his influence was very great with his people. He raised a large family, all of whom were men and women of high respectability." |
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| 1857 |
Samuel Henry Moore is born on October 4, 1857, the last of thirteen children, born to John Mayfield Moore and his wife Marinda Paden Moore. |
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| 1861 |
John Thomas and Lewellen Moore, fight with the Confederates in the Civil War. During the war, John Mayfield makes boots for the soldiers. |
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| 1863 |
In the spring of 1863, Lewellen Moore, brother of Samuel Henry Moore, joined Company G, Seventeenth Texas Infantry, in the Confederate Army. As a private Lewellen took part in the battle of Mansfield and was taken prisoner at the battle of Pleasant Hill, but soon afterward exchanged. |
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| 1867 |
In November 1867, John Mayfield Moore and all of his children except Mary McVey left Mississippi for Williamson County, Texas, to join his oldest son James Paden Moore and his brother Lewellen Moore II, who had moved there before the war. They traveled in covered wagons with four oxen and four horses, arriving in Florence, Texas on Christmas Day after forty-two days of travel. |
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| 1872 |
Mary Elizabeth Rutledge moved with her family, the Rutledges, to Texas from Tennessee at the age of 10 years. |
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| 1891 |
Eudora Adeline Beauchamp is born on August 7, 1891 to Thomas Mariam Beauchamp and Julia Katherine Witcher Beauchamp in Newnan, Georgia. |
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| 1892 |
Joel Marvin Moore is born on August 7, 1892 to Samuel Henry Moore and Mary Elizabeth Rutledge Moore in Texas. |
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