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1900 The Thomas Beauchamp family, along with their daughter, Eudora Adeline, travel by covered-wagon and four horses from Rocky, Oklahoma to Kenna, New Mexico. They become homesteaders in New Mexico and will return to Oklahoma less than four years later in about 1907.
1905 When he was just twelve years old, Joel Marvin Moore, along with his younger brother George William Moore, drive cattle over a 100 miles from west Texas to Hobbs, New Mexico.
1914 Joel Marvin Moore marries Eudora Adeline Beauchamp on May 15, 1914 in Quitaque, Texas.
1915 Joel William Moore, the first of ten children, is born to Joel and Addie Moore in the west Texas town of Quitaque on February 9, 1915.
1916 Thelma Marie Moore is born to Joel and Addie Moore on November 8, 1916.
1918 Lois Elizabeth Moore is born to Joel and Addie Moore on March 17 1918.
1919 Alden (Buster) Beauchamp Moore is born to Joel and Addie Moore on September 24, 1919.
1921 Ola Mae Moore is born to Joel and Addie Moore on June 11, 1921.
1923 Curtis Dalford Moore is born to Joel and Addie Moore on October 8, 1923.
1926 James (Jim) Horace Moore is born to Joel and Addie Moore on July 2, 1926.
1929 Clara Belle Moore is born to Joel and Addie Moore in west Texas January of 1929, but dies eight months later in Turkey, Texas due to sickness.
1930 Helen Catherine Moore is born to Joel and Addie Moore in west Texas in January of 1930, but later dies by drowning on the family farm in Beck, Texas when she is just two years old.
1935 Bobbie Dick Moore, the last of ten children, is born to Joel and Addie Moore in Sudan, Texas on January 20, 1935.
1937 After two years of devastating hail storms, Joel Marvin Moore moves his family from Sudan, Texas to Glendora, California.
1945 Buster Moore and Curtis Moore meet by chance in the South Pacific during World War II.
1949 Joel and Addie Moore move to what will be their last residence on Cherokee Drive in Downey, California.
1969 Joel and Addie Moore along with their children and their families, meet at an old resort outside of Chico, California, for a Moore family reunion.
1980 During his recovery in a hospital in Downey, California, Joel Marvin Moore dies at the age of 88.
1985 After a few years in a Glendora Convalescent home, Addie Moore dies at the age of 93.
1993 In the summer of 1993, the descendants of Joel and Addie Moore, along with Beauchamp family members, gather in Sonora, California for a Moore Family Reunion.
1994 In 1994, all eight children of Joel and Addie Moore come together in Redding, California to share family history and memories.
Contributing Source: Mary Love Berryman