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MOORE - Descendants of Eli Moore & Deborah (Updegraph)
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Family notes state that sometime during the latter part of 1700, four stalwart Scotch-Irish emigrated to America landing in Philadelphia from north of Ireland.  Their names were believed to be Eli, Jessie (who settled in Allegheny City and was a bell and carriage manufacturer), Thomas, and James - the two latter of which were said to have gone south and were slave holders.

Eli Moore, who was born about 1783, settled finally in what was then known as Beaver Dam, Pennsylvania and married there a Deborah Updegraph or Updegraff who had been born about 1787.  Not much has been learned about them except that Eli died 5 Sep 1828 in Beaver Dam, PA the same year their son Eli was born; and that about four years after the death of her husband, Deborah and other family members appear in Ohio where Deborah married William Griffith on the 22nd of May 1832 in Harrison County and were listed in the 1850 Tuscarawas County, OH census living in Mill Township.

William Griffith was born in PA in about 1772 and on 01 March 1852, made his last will and testament which was filed for probate on 3 April 1852 - final disposition of the estate filed in Tuscarawas Co. Probate Court on 24 May 1854 by Eli Moore (step-son).

 
CHILDREN OF
ELI MOORE & DEBORAH (UPDEGRAPH)
According to a letter written by son James U. Moore
  1. JOHN MOORE - born in Pennsylvania.
  1. JOSEPH MOORE - born about 1811 in PA.  He married Jane S. Grubs.
  1. JAMES UPDEGRAFF MOORE - born 13 Sep 1816 in Beaver Dam, PA; died Apr 1887 in Cothranville, Lamar, TX.  He married (1) Rebecca Cook; married (2) S. A. (first & last name not known).
  1. ISAAC MOORE - born in Pennsylvania in about 1810.  According to a note written by his nephew Thomas, Isaac had sold his place in Canal Dover (Dover) to his brother James.  He married Elizabeth Cook, daughter of Martin and Elizabeth (Firebaugh) on 03 Jul 1834 in Harrison Co., Ohio.
  1. THOMAS J. MOORE - born about 1819 in Pennsylvania; married Susan Cook on 06 Jun 1840 in Harrison Co., OH. Susan was the sister of Elizabeth who married Tom's brother Isaac.
  1. CINTHIA or CYNTHIA MOORE - born 1825 in PA; died 5 Jun 1889 in Yates Center, Woodson, KS.  She married John W. Harris and moved from Ohio to Scott Co., Illinois. After her husband's death in 1867, she removed to Kansas in 1876 where her son was living.
  1. ELI MOORE - born 27 Jul 1828 in Beaver, PA; died 20 Apr 1914 in Chicago, Cook, IL; buried 24 Apr 1914 in Greenlawn Cemetery, Rich Hill, MO.  He married Maranda Hooker.
 
 
Generation II
 
JOSEPH MOORE - the son of Eli and Deborah, was at one time considered the black sheep of the family because he played the fiddle and danced at parties.  He married "a dancing girl", Jane S. Grubs, who it is believed was born in Tennessee in about 1814. - Because the family who have nothing to do with them, they left Ohio and by 1843 were living on a farm four miles northeast of Collinsville (Madison Co., IL) on the National Trail.  Like his father, Joseph was a blacksmith and built a shop.  After a year he moved to Collinsville and took charge of the blacksmithing department of the extensive portable saw mills owned by Clark and Bickford.

By 1847, Joseph (who was now a converted Methodist) leased the shops from his former employers and sent for his brother James who arrived this year, after which the two began to manufacture cow bells and was by 1870 conceded to be the largest of its kind in the United States.

Joseph's family was enumerated in the 1850 Madison County, IL census which listed his wife and children Isaac C., Mary Ann, and Sarah.  There was living with them at this time a  blacksmith named Charles Treadway of Massachusetts. - Joseph Moore died on 17 July 1852.

 
CHILDREN OF
JOSEPH MOORE & JANE S. (GRUBS)
  1. ISAAC COOK MOORE - born 1833 in Pennsylvania.  He married Julia Caroline Slayback and became a prominent citizen of Collinsville where he took over his father and uncle's business of making cow bells.
  1. MARY ANN MOORE - born 1836 in Pennsylvania. 
  1. SARAH E. MOORE - born 1842 in Pennsylvania. 
 
JAMES UPDEGRAFF MOORE - was born 13 Sep 1816 in Beaver Dam, Pennsylvania and was the son of Eli Moore & Deborah Updegraff.  He removed to Ohio where at least his mother's family was supposed to have lived; and married Rebecca Cook on 07 Sep 1836 in Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio. Rebecca had been born in Tuscarawas Co., Ohio and was the daughter of Martin Cook and his wife Elizabeth.  Her mother's surname is speculated to have been Firebaugh and she apparently died when Rebecca and her sister Catherine (who married James Arbaugh) were quite young.

James and Rebecca lived in the Scio and Uhrichsville area until 1847 when James went to Collinsville, Illinois to work with his brother Joseph who was a blacksmith and were enumerated in the 1850 Madison Co., IL census.  By 1860 it appears that James and Rebecca had parted company and were listed separately in the 1860 St. Louis, MO census although James may have been listed as a blacksmith residing at the rear of 411 near Main Street (but had already left the area). Rebecca was listed in the 1860 household of policeman Gabriel Darlington with her sons Thomas and Joseph.

It is believed that sometime prior to the onset of the Civil War, James may have gone south. One family note indicates he was a tutor at Brewer's Plantation located on Moon Lake in Mississippi, but by 1864 he was in Texas and married to "S.A." and father of another son, John Ashley.  He was listed in the 1870 and the 1880 Lamar County, TX census with his wife S.A., (also of Irish heritage) his son John, and an adopted daughter Ada Cherry.  He lived the remainder of his life in Lamar County, worked as a blacksmith, farmer, and a school teacher as he had done in Ohio and possibly in Illinois.  He died sometime in April of 1887 in a place once known as Cothranville, in Lamar County, Texas and was said to have been buried in the village church yard.

His first wife Rebecca (Cook) remained in St. Louis and never remarried. She was listed in the 1870 census with her three youngest children: Isaac, Amanda & Joseph. Her son Thomas had married in 1862 shortly before enlisting with the 33rd MO Volunteers and he, his wife Clarissa and their two year old son Thomas, were living outside the city limits.

 In 1880 Rebecca was listed in her son Thomas' household and in 1881 was listed as a widow in the St. Louis City Directory residing at 814 Mound Street which was also the address of her son Joseph. Rebecca died on 18 Nov 1891 and was at that time residing at 811 Mound Street. She was laid to rest at Bellefontaine Cemetery.
 
CHILDREN OF
JAMES U. MOORE & REBECCA (COOK)
According to a letter written to son Tom by James
  1. THOMAS ANDERSON MOORE - born 31 Oct 1838 in Scio, Harrison, OH; died 16 Jun 1915 in St. Louis, MO; married Clarissa Van Bergen Pilcher, daughter of Ezekiel and Louisa (Ballard).
  1. ISAAC MOORE - born 22 Jun 1842 in Harrison County, Ohio; listed in the 1860 St. Louis City Directory as a tinner; father of Orville and Lulu; died in Oakland, CA.
  1. CINTHIA "AMANDA" MOORE - born 03 Mar 1845 in Harrison County, Ohio; married Henry Henze. Indexed in 1880 St. Louis, MO as Heuze.
  1. JOSEPH MOORE - born 03 Aug 1853 in Illinois and enumerated in the 1860 St. Louis Missouri Census as age seven, living with his mother and brother Tom.  In 1870 he was listed as a 17 year-old railroad clerk, and in 1880 he was residing in his sister Amanda Henze's household as was their mother Rebecca, and was listed as a stewart on a boat. According to a note written by T.A., Joseph E. Moore died @ 3:30 p.m. at 811 Mounds Street on March 12th, 1886 and was buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery on Wednesday, the 17th in Grave 811, Lot No. 24. (Confirmed by death notice)
 

CHILDREN OF
JAMES UPDEGRAPH MOORE & S.A.

  1. JOHN ASHLEY MOORE - born 1864 in Lamar County, Texas; letter states he married a neighboring girl also by the name of Moore. She was Mary Jane Moore (1866-1939), daughter of William Newton Moore & Loucinda (Brown).
  1. ADA M. CHERRY - born about 1872  in Texas - Adopted Daughter.  Census states her parents were born in Texas.
 
ISAAC MOORE - was born in Pennsylvania in about 1810 but removed to Ohio with his family and once owned a home in Canal Dover. He married Elizabeth Cook who was the daughter of Martin and Elizabeth (Firebaugh) on 03 Jul 1834 in Harrison Co., Ohio. Her sister Susan married Isaac's brother Thomas.

A search for Isaac in the records seems to indicate that he died before 1850. Elizabeth, if she is the correct person followed through the census records, is living in North Twp., Harrison Co., OH in 1850 and age 34, head of household with Clemson, Catherine, Mary E., and William H. Moore. In 1860 Elizabeth and the children are living in Goshen Twp., Tuscarawas Co., Ohio and in 1870 in New Philadelphia Township.

There is an Elizabeth in 1880 residing in the Village of Dover and listed as the grandmother of William, and she is listed as age 65 with both parents listd with births in Pennsylvania. This information is consistent with Elizabeth, but is not confirmed.

Any information on this family would be greatly appreciated!
 
CHILDREN OF
ISAAC MOORE & ELIZABETH (COOK)
  1. Clempson Moore - born about 1838 in Harrison Co., OH. Speculated to be the same which enlisted at New Philadelphia in the 51st OH Volunteer on 26 Sep 1861 as a musician and was discharged in 1862.
    [Discharge papers on file, courtesey of Katherine Jones]
  1. Catharine Moore - born 29 Jan 1842 in Harrison Co., OH; married William F. Crites; died in Dover, Ohio on 08 Jan 1919.
  1. Mary Ellen Moore - born about 1844 in Tuscarawas Co., OH; listed in the census records from 1850-1870 with her mother.
  1. William H. Moore - born about 1849 in Tuscarawas Co., OH; listed in the census records from 1850-1870 with his mother.
 
THOMAS J. MOORE - born about 1819 in Harrison Co., Ohio. He married Susan Cook on 06 Jun 1840 in Harrison Co., OH. Susan was the sister of Elizabeth who married Tom's brother Isaac. Although the children and this family are not confirmed with other documentation to be the same family, the census records match closely with their ages and the first child listed with them is born one year after the date of marriage.

In 1850 and 1860 the family of Thomas and Susan are residing in Goshen Twp., Tuscarawas Co., OH and not located in the census records hereafter.

Any information on this family to confirm whether this is the correct Thomas and Susan family would be appreciated!
 
CHILDREN OF
THOMAS J. MOORE & SUSAN (COOK)
Note: May have had more children - the following taken from the 1850-1860 census records.
  1. Elizabeth Moore - born 1841 in Ohio; listed with her parents in the 1850-1860 census records.
  1. Catharine Moore - born 1846 in Ohio; listed with her parents in the 1850-1860 census records.
  1. William Franklin - born 1848 in Ohio; listed with her parents in the 1850-1860 census records.
  1. Mary M. Moore - born 1849 in Ohio; listed with her parents in the 1850-1860 census records.
  1. John Moore - born 1853 in Ohio; listed with her parents in the 1860 census record.
  1. Anne E. Moore - born 1854 in Ohio; listed with her parents in the 1860 census record.
  1. Sarah Moore - born 1856 in Ohio; listed with her parents in the 1860 census record.
  1. Ellen Moore - born 1859 in in Ohio; listed with her parents in the 1860 census record.
 
CINTHIA MOORE -  her name usually appearing with an "i" rather than Cynthia, was the only daughter of Eli and Deborah, was born 1825 in PA and came with her parents as a child to Ohio. She married on 23 Nov 1843 in Tuscarawas Co., OH John W. Harris who was born 1817 in Tuscarawas Co., Ohio.  She was enumerated in the 1850 Warwick, Tuscarawas Co., OH census with her husband and children Mary, James and Eli, and emigrated to Illinois in 1865 where her husband died on 12 Jun 1867. 

Cynthia was also listed in the 1870 Census of Scott County, IL living in Naples with children Isaac, Oliver, Barbara, Ida, Cora, and John.  She left Illinois and came to Yates Center in Woodson County, Kansas in 1876 and died there on 5 Jun 1889.  Her obituary is on file, courtesy of Carol Hodges.

 
CHILDREN OF
CYNTHIA (MOORE) & JOHN W. HARRIS
  1. MARY E. HARRIS - born 1847 in New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, OH; died 19 Jun 1871 in Naples, Scott, Illinois.  She married Levi Smith.
  2. JAMES ALLEN HARRIS - born 15 Jan 1849; died 28 Jun 1911 in Lynd, Lyon, Minnesota.  He married Mary Ada Foster.
  3. ELI HENRY HARRIS - born 29 Apr 1850 in Tuscarawas, OH; died 8 Dec 1932 in Troy, Idaho.  He married Elizabeth Ann Green.
  4. SABYLLA HARRIS - born 13 Aug 1852 in New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, OH; died 29 Sep 1929 in Highland Twp, Apache, OK; buried  in Navina, OK.  She married Oliver Jasper West.
  5. ISAAC NEWTON HARRIS - born 18 Mar 1854 in Tuscarawas Co., OH; died 8 Jan 1939 in Grangeville, ID.  He married (1) Emily Hilburn; (2) Jennie Black.
  6. BARBARA ELLEN HARRIS - born in Tuscarawas, Ohio on 12 Feb 1857; died 20 Aug 1898 in Moran, Woodson, KS; buried  in Yates Center, Woodson, KS.  She married Nathan V. Moore (Rev.) on 23 May 1895 in Yates Center, Woodson, KS but had no children. [Photo ]
  7. OLIVER CLEMPSON HARRIS - born 11 Jan 1859 in Tuscarawas, Ohio; died 22 Oct 1951 in Sedgewick, Alta.  He married Alice Josephine Green.
  8. IDA LUCINDA HARRIS - born 13 Jun 1861 in Tuscarawas, Ohio; died 24 Jan 1932 in Yates Center, Woodson, KS.  She married Thaddeus H. Horton.
  9. CORA HARRIS -  born 11 Feb 1864 in Ohio; died 15 Apr 1898 in Apache, Oklahoma.  She married (1) Victor Horton; (2) John A. Vincent; (3) (---) Pierson.
  10. JOHN EMMET HARRIS - born 12 Sep 1866 in Naples, Scott, IL; died 8 Sep 1942 in Troy, Idaho; buried  in Moscow, Idaho.  He married Myrtle (Mryta) Belle Bayhan.
 
ELI MOORE - son of Eli and Deborah, he was born 27 Jul 1828 in Beaver, PA. He was married to Maranda Hooker by Rev. Greenewalt on 25 Jul 1851 in New Philadelphia, OH.  Miranda was born 23 May 1835 in Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas, OH and was the daughter of John Hooker and Mary Watson who were living in Mill Township just three homes away from the Moores where she was enumerated in the 1850 Tuscarawas census as age fifteen.

Eli was enumerated in the 1850 Tuscarawas Co., Ohio Census living in  Mill Township with step-father William Griffith and mother Deborah; and listed in the 1860 Knox Co., MO Census, in the Township of Fabius with his wife and children John D. and Mary L Moore.

He served in Company K, 11th Regiment of the MO Cavalry and was listed in the 1870 Scott Co., IL Federal Census living near Winchester as head of household with wife Miranda and children John, Lucy, Lyman, Della and Emma.  They were then listed in the 1880 census for Vernon Co., MO - Bacon Township with wife Amand, and children Lyman, Della, Emma, Effa, and Guy.

Miranda died 4 Apr 1902 in Rich Hill, Bates Co., Missouri and was buried 6 Apr 1902 in Greenlawn Cemetery, Rich Hill, MO.  Eli died 20 Apr 1914 in Chicago, Cook, IL and was buried 24 Apr 1914 in Greenlawn Cemetery, Rich Hill, Missouri.

( Photo of Eli Moore, Jr. )
 
CHILDREN OF
ELI MOORE & MARANDA (HOOKER)
  1. JOSEPH MOORE - born 21 Nov 1852 in Tuscarawas Co., OH; died 8 Jan 1855 in Tuscarawas Co., Ohio.
  2. JOHN DEMUTH MOORE - born 21 Feb 1855 in Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas, OH; died 17 Aug 1940 in Rich Hill, Bates, MO.  He married (1) Josephine Sally Brown; (2) Susie B. Ratekin; (3) Lulie Badgett.
  3. LUCY M. MOORE - born 30 Aug 1858 in Tuscarawas co., OH; died 16 Aug 1924 in Kansas.  She married (1) on 4 May 1873 Alfred Maus; (2)  (---) Gettz.
  4. LYMAN WATSON MOORE - born 28 Dec 1861 in Knox County, MO; died 16 Jul 1892.  Employed as a school teacher in Rich Hill, Bates County, MO in 1890.  A note of Shirleyn J. Jones of Douglas City, CA indicates he died by drowning in the Mississippi River.
  5. DELLA S. MOORE - born 13 Apr 1865 in Scott County, IL.  She married  Ambrose Wilson.
  6. EMMA ALVIRA MOORE - born 11 Dec 1867 in Scott County, IL.  She married on 13 Oct 1887 Thomas E. Hackett. 
  7. EFFIE LOUISE S. MOORE - born 15 Mar 1871 in Harwood, Vernon, MO; buried 1903 in CA.  She married on 27 May 1888 Elijah E. Myers.
  8. IRA CLEMSON MOORE - born 15 Jun 1874 in Vernon Co., MO; died 21 May 1876.
  9. GUY Z. MOORE - born 28 Dec 1878 in Harwood, Vernon, MO; died 13 Aug 1939 in Monmouth, Warren, IL.  He married Alice Maude Rhodes.
 
 
 
Part II of the Descendants of Eli Moore
 
 


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