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History Of Rush County, Indiana
1888
Brant & Fuller
Chicago
Joshua Moore, a native-born citizen of Ripley Township, and an
esteemed pioneer citizen of Rush County, was born in
the same house he at present occupies, December 2, 1826. He was the son
of Samuel and Rebecca T. (White) Moore,
both of whom were natives of Perquimans County, N.C., the former of English
and Irish, and the latter of English
descent. He was reared upon the old homestead where he was born, and at
the age of twenty-two he began to learn the
trade of blacksmith. He served as an apprentice in a shop on the present
site of the village of Mooresville, Hancock
County, for four years, by which time he had a good knowledge of the trade.
In the meantime he had become the partner
of the man with whom he served his apprenticeship, and finally, at the
end of the fourth year, he became the sole owner
of the shop and assumed the full responsibility of discharging the duties
of village blacksmith. He continued to devote his
whole attention to his trade for a period of twenty - five years, and
his labors in that connection were entirely performed
in the self-same little village of Mooresville, which had naturally taken
the name of its most conspicuous citizen, Mr.
Moore. In the meantime, on the 2nd of April 1857, he was married to Miss
Mary Bufkin, who is a native of Cadiz,
Henry County, this State, born June 5, 1837. She was the daughter of Samuel
and Catherine (Kinnick) Bufkin, who
were natives of Ohio, and Maryland, respectively. In August, 1837, Mr.
And Mrs. Moore settled upon the old Moore
homestead, in Ripley Township, which was the birth place and boyhood home
of the former. Since then the attention of
Mr. Moore has been given to farming. He and wife have had four children,
as follows: Lanora A., and a twin sister who
were born April 28, 1858, the latter died unnamed, and the former died
September 15, 1858. Their third child is Lindley
Murray, born June 30, 1861, and the fourth is Emma Annie born April 20,
1865. Mr. And Mrs. Moore and both son and
daughter, are members of the Friends Church. In politics Mr. Moore is
a Prohibitionist.
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