| Barbara
was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio on the
12th of February and was eight years old when
the family removed to Naples in Scott County,
Illinois. She was enumerated in her
mother's household in the 1870 Scott County, Illinois
Census as the oldest daughter - her father
having passed three years earlier when she
was ten. She moved to Woodson County,
Kansas with her mother and family in 1876 and
when she was twenty two years old began
teaching school, first in Woodson County for
two years, and then Kiowa County for another
thirteen years.
Referring to
her own self in her many letters as an old
maid, Barbara married Nathan Moore at the age
of 38, a minister of the First M.E. church
who held the parish at Yates Center and later
at Oswego. Her marriage to the reverend
gave her great social status and she was
included among those who sent and received
engraved invitations.
Nattie, as
Barbara referred to her husband, resigned
from the ministry due to poor health that
they had both suffered, and had traveled
extensively tring to find a suitable climate
for Barbara's lung congestion, but eventually
took a post in Moran, Kansas where Barbara
died at the age of 41, only three months
after their arrival. She is laid to
rest in the family plot at Yates Center.
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