The MOORE GENEALOGY

SPECIAL THANKS to:  BONNIE MUMFORD  mumfy@zoominternet.net  she knows how to research!.
NOTE  she is not a paid researcher. please don't ask. thanks.

1 she also may have found my greatgrandparents. at this time we are trying to confirm this.

with her  persistance search she found my great uncle!.  NOTE
she also located info on 3 of THOMAS's kids. IDA, HARLEY &
JACK.

thank you very much BONNIE!
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Heres a huge  MAYES page link.

Note the      LEWIS SURNAMES       list is from a book
" OLD  TIME  TAZEWELL " by MARY HANSARD.  the book is out of print.but lately its said it may be reprinted.

                               John Jack? or Jackson? James?  Moore? Mohr?  b.1830s?-40s?  Tx? Tn? Germany?

           Spouse     Nancy Ann Mayes,
...................... 4   Nancy Ann Mayes b: May 13, 1845 EXCELSIOR SPRING in RAY Co., MO d: Abt. 1883 in Claiborne Co., TN.

NOTE,the INFO on the  above NANCY MAYES,    i have no real proof this is my great grand mother.but all info points to her,as of now i'm 99% sure this is my great grand mother. her son said his mom was from  MISSOURI,  this 1 fits. also my gramp's lived & hung around the  BARREN CREEK & GOIN area.  thats what leads me to believe she is ours.

her mom & dad are Sterling Mayes b: February 22, 1819 in Barren Creek, Claiborne Co., Tennessee d: September 20, 1887.
Sarah C. Carr b: October 4, 1821 in Powell Valley, Claiborne Co., Tennessee d: February 9, 1901 in Fort Ridge, Claiborne Co., Tennessee m: 1837 in Claiborne Co., Tennessee.

My  great grandmother  it was found remarried a  J.W.  BOLIN in 1882,d.1883, she is buried with the  BOLIN name.
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it is known she had family in Missouri.she had a brother named  John Marion, born  in RAY county, Missouri. also another brother  RICHARD CANNON MAYES b.RAY Co.MO. returned and died there.   also it is thought her family ran a rock quarry in Claiborne county,Tn.new info here is this has not been found that the rock quarry was in the Mayes family.

STERLING's parents are  THOMAS & ELIZABETH BRIDGES MAYES.

Sterling Mayes was born in the Barren Creek section of Claiborne
County, Tennessee, on February 22, 1819. He was married about
1837 to Sally Carr in Claiborne County and they lived at the old
home site until 1840. They moved then to Ray County, Missouri,
where they resided for six years. At that time a disease, "the Plague",
swept through that area taking the lives of large numbers of the
pioneers.  For that reason they returned to Claiborne County and
farmed there for the rest of their lives.

Sterling and SARAH?. Sally Carr Mayes had eight children, six boys md two girls: The oldest was
(1) James Dickerson Mayes, born October 31, 1838, in Claiborne
County.
(2) William Houston (Huse) was born about 1840 in
Claiborne County. It is not known whether or not he was married,
but he was a Union soldier and was captured near Bull's Gap,
Tennessee, by the Confederates and confined in the Andersonville
Prison. He was so weak from starvation when released near the end of the war that he died without reaching home, about 1865.

(3) John Marion, born February 23, 1842, in Ray County, Missouri.
He married Lucretia Jones (born 1841) first and later Manila
Lewis, the date of these marriages being unknown, and died January 2, 1914.

(4) Nancy Ann, born May 13, 1845, Ray County, Missouri.  She
died about 1883 and was buried in the Mayes Family cemetery on
Barren Creek.

(5) Richard Cannon, born May 21, 1849, Ray County Missouri and
married Talitha Parker in June 1867. He died on a farm near
Excelsior Springs, Missouri, and is buiied near by at Salem County.

(6)Elizabeth Jane born about 1852 in Claiborne County. She was
married twice, first to Benjamin Parker and then to Charles Ross.
The date of her death is unknown but she is buried in the old Mayes cemetery on Barren Creek.

(7) Louis Johnson born August 26, 1854, in Claiborne County. He
married twice, first March 11, 1874, to Louisa Alice Shipley and
secondly on November 11, 1913, to Minnie Shipley, both
marriages taking place in Claiborne County. He died July 19, 1937,
and was buried in Shipley's cemetery about four miles from
Tazewell on Federal Highway 25 in an unmarked grave by the side
of his first wife who has a Marker.

(8) Thomas J. was born about
1857 in Claiborne County, Tennespee. Nothing more is known
about him.
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below the new info provided by BONNIE.
this may be my greatgrandparents:

1870 Knox Co. TN census
 District 5 part 1 on page 112
  line 16 HH 154:

  Moor, Jack; 28; M W; no occupation listed
 but the previous hh head was in
  Shoe and Boot manuf.; born TENNESSEE
 (1842-1843)
  Moor, Nancy; 26; F W; b. TN (1844-1845)
  Moor, Jefferson; 10; MW; b. TN (1860-1861)
  Moor, Huston; 9; MW; b. TN (1861-1862)
  Moor, Sallie; 5; FW; b. TN (1865-1866)
  Moor, Semantha; 1; FW; b. Tn (1869)
 

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recently Steve in Knoxville,says a story has it that our Nancy breast fed an indian baby on their way from TX to TN,as the indian lady had no milk,. we are more to believe this than my gramps.their dad did leave them and return,but no one but Lizzi would talk to him.he left never heard from again
 Here is a story  told by my grandfather,that his father John Jack Moore   abandoned his family,i assume around 1879-82. dates fit some of what this story says.)

my grandfather said native american indians help raise them some or at least helped them with food,my great grandmother would be gone to a miller to get flour & meal ground,and an indian family watched the kids while she was gone for several days.it was said she died giving birth to twins,by her 2nd husband,no name known.
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It seems that that John "Jack" Moore,(my great grandfather) was from
Texas,?  & may not have been from Germany, as has been stated in the family for years.

9/1/03  Recent info may have our
MOOREs roots in  KNOX Co.TN.

our      MOOREs have been a very secretive, or very quiet about  the past generation.

On Houston's death papers it has he was born in Texas.  I found him and
his family in the 1900 census for Knox county.  There it says he was born in Texas and his father was born in Texas.   They were NOT in Knox County in 1880.  I found Houston, Will, and Jeff in the 1880 census for Claiborne County . Houston did get married in Knox County in 1887. The only one I found that was born in Knox County was John Marion Moore.  That information came from a book at the McClung room at the library that was titlted Deaths in Claiborne County.

The above info by Steve Moore of Knoxville,Tn.
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John "Jack" Moore & Nancy Mays,..Mayes?,.
children are:
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new info on their sons in the 1880 claiborne county census:
Jeff was working for a Mays family ( maybe his
mother's family) . Houston
was working for a Goin family.  And William
was working for a Moyer family.
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Will:  PHOTO   was a gambler on riverboats,on the mississippi river. we had an old photo of him taken in HERRIN,ILLNOIS,he may have settled in the ST.LOUIS area. there was a tv show about 20 years ago about the west, on PBS, I think.  there was a photo popped up, saying the name of the man standing,but didn't know the one sitting,well that was my great uncle Will. my aunt has the original, we wish we knew who had that copy. we don't know will's birth date. was he older than Houston?. an uncle was said to have seen Will between 1912-1917,far as known that was the last ever heard of him.
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James Houston, his genealogy: by Steve Moore, Knoxvville.Houston's ggrandson,  PHOTO

James Houston Moore  born 2-27-1863  died 2-22-1937    married
7-27-1887 to
Rosa Ann Brown  born 11-10-1870   died 6-28-1954

their   Children are:
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       Edna   born 11-1888:
she married O.A.Cox they had one child who died at age 16.
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     Victoria   born 6-3-1891   died 1-16-1942:she married Ed Smith. They had 2 children Leon and Juanita.  Leon is dead. Juanita is still alive and married Paul Courtney. They had 3 children Victoria, Paula, and Edward.  Vicky has 3 children Brett, Dana (twins) and Shannon.  Paula has 1 child named Laura.  Eddie has 2 children and I can't remember their names.
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Maggie  born 7-31-1897    died  6-13-1911  of diptheria
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Clarence C.: Clarence C. he married Edith Davis. They had 2 children
Kenneth and Barbara Lee.  Barbara Lee is the one who let me copy the picture.Kenneth was married and has two boys.  Barbara Lee married Clift ?  They have 2 children David and Elizabeth.
Last there was Agnes
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Agnes    was the youngest: she married O.D. Myers. They had 2 children
Rosemary and William.  Rosemary married Tom Hayes and they had 3
children Dana, Doug and  Randy.  All 3 of their children are married but I don't know anything about their spouse and children. Bill married Kathy?.
They had 2 children a boy and a girl.  The girls name is something like
Elise.
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James Earl   born 7-24-1907   died 5-27-1967:
      My Grandparents are James Earl Moore  who married Myra Inez Mays on 9-26-1927  Inez was born 11-16-1911  and died
3-21-1992   James Earl Moore changed his name sometime to Earl James Moore, because of an outlaw called Early James.
James Earl and Inez divorced in 1938 and James Earl remarried  to Bess
McBee  they had no children.

  James Earl and Inez's children are:
Clarence Houston Moore born 11-9-1929
Victor Leon Moore  Born 1931
Virginia Ann Moore Born 1933

   My parents are Clarence Houston Moore who married Dorothy Naomi
Newman
born 3-20-1932 they were married 7-14-1953

  Their children are
Steven Clarence Moore born 4-9-1955
Debra Diane Moore  born 8-12-1956
Tim Allen Moore born 12-11-1961

I married Patricia Lynn Graves on 4-19-1974
our only child is James Randell Moore born 2-15-1979
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I contacted a J.T. Mayes who had some information on the internet.  He
thinks that our Nancy Mayes is the same Nancy Mayes in his family.  He
doesn't know anymore about her though.

(Thank you, Steve Moore!! Knoxville,Tn,  for the Houston genealogy.)
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Note heres the new info from  BONNIE MUMFORD.  mumfy@zoominternet.net

             THOMAS    JEFFERSON    MOORE.

 Descendants of Thomas Jefferson Moore

 Generation No. 1

 1. Thomas Jefferson1 Moore was born August
 1861 in Missouri according to
 census information, and died Bet. 1918 - 1920
 in Knox. Co. Tn. He married
He married ( 1st wife
 DELPHIA  C. GRUBBS,  April 13, 1890
 in Knox Co. Tn. She was born June 1867, and
 died Bef. 1905.

2nd wife
 ANNABELLE  POE or  (possibly Gray)
PHOTO
we assume this is her. THOMAS msrried her  in 1905.    Recently found funeral notice of their son sayes she was a  POE..  She was  born Abt. 1882, and died Bet.
 1920 - 1930 in Knox Co. Tn.   a son HARLEY has her as  POE in
his

 Census Info:

 Household Record 1880 United States
 Census  Search results | Download
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CLAIBORNE County, TN.
 Household: Name Relation Marital Status Gender
 Race Age Birthplace
 Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's
 Birthplace

 Richard MAYES Self M Male W 31 TN Farmer TN TN

 Litha MAYES Wife M Female W 25 KY Keeping
 House KY KY

 James E. MAYES Son S Male W 12 TN At Home TN
 KY

 Mary MAYES Dau S Female W 8 KY TN KY

 Louise MAYES Dau S Female W 7 KY TN KY

 Martha MAYES Dau S Female W 5 KY TN KY

 John MAYES Son S Male W 2 KY TN KY

 Jefferson MORE Other S Male W 18 MO Farm
 Laborer MO TN

 Source Information: Census Place District 11,
 Claiborne, Tennessee

 Family History Library Film 1255248

 NA Film Number T9-1248

 Page Number 221A
 
 

 1900 Knox Co. Tn census District 11 ED 80
 Sheet 16A HH276:

 More, Thomas J.; head; WM; August 1861; 38; M;
 10; Mo Tn Tn; farm laborer; R
 H

 ", Delphia; wife; WF; June 1867; M; 10; 2; 1;
 Tn Tn Tn

 ",FRANK,, ( Frances )  son; WM; April 1894; 6; S; Tn Mo
 Tn. FRANK m: DAISY GRUBBS. they are buried at the
KNOXVILLE,TN NATIONAL Cemetery. FRANK was a WW1 vet.

 Marriage record at Knox county website:

 MOORE, Thomas marr. GRUBBS, Delphia C on
 13-APR-1890
 
 

 1910 KNOX 8TH Civil District ED 117 SHEET 46B
 HH 900 ON BLACK OAK RIDGE:

 Moore, THOMAS, head, WM, 48; M2; married 5
 yrs; b. MO fa:MO mo: TN ; farmer

 ", ANNABELL, wife; WF; 21; M1; married 5 yrs;
 2 children; 2 living; b. TN

 ", FRANK; son; WM; 16; S.  FRANK m: DAISY GRUBBS. they are buried at the
KNOXVILLE,TN NATIONAL Cemetery. FRANK was a WW1 vet.

 ", CHARLES; SON; wm; 4; s.. its thought
I'm told    CHARLES m: a MOLES.
 

 HARLEY age 4 male,,,,,, died   1992,  ASHEVILLE,NC. married
a PENLEY. career army.   no kids named, if any.
HARLEY's   to see     obituary    NOTE:  HARLEY & RAMON JACK & sister  IDA MAE were in the    NATIONAL ORPHANAGE in  TIFFIN,OHIO. in the  late  1920s.

to early 1930s.  HARLEY & JACK ran away and stayed with theirs & my uncle CLIFFORD MOORE in CUMBERLAND GAP, TN.
 
 

 ", IDA; DAU; WF; 2; s
 IDA MAE MOORE HAUN
   Indianapolis, Marion, IN
  Born:     3 May 1907    TN
  Died:     18 May 1999

IDA worked 20 years at   TOM BLACK POTATO CHIP PLANT in
KNOXVILLE,TN.  she retired in  1972.  she has 2 daughters,
i assume in  INDIANAPOLIS.  JOYCE OGLESBY   &   CATHERINE A. LONG.
 

 Thomas Jefferson Moore married Annabell in
 1905.   a son HARLEY's obit states ANNABELL as a POE.
not  GRAY.... strange. other info says GRAY.

Frank has a birthdate of
 1894.  died 1955,      FRANK m: DAISY GRUBBS. they are buried at the
KNOXVILLE,TN NATIONAL Cemetery. FRANK was a WW1 vet.

 1920 census in Knoxville.There was a Anna
 Moore age 32 living in the
 household of Joseph Mock as a servant. She
 stated she was widowed. She had
 the following children:

 Charles age 14 male  we think he married a MOLES.

 Ida age 11 female,,,,,   DA MAE MOORE HAUN
   Indianapolis, Marion, IN
  Born:     3 May 1907    TN
  Died:     18 May 1999

 Mary age 9 female.

 HARLEY age 4 male,,,,,, died   1992,  ASHEVILLE,NC. married
a PENLEY. career army.   no kids named, if any.

 Ramon J. age 2 male,,, this is  JACK.. died   1990, KNOXVILLE,TN.

 The Ramon J. may be your Jack Moore since the
 ages seem to fit what you've
 posted. Since Ramon J. was two years old in
 1920, one can assume Thomas died
 between 1918 (year of conception) up to Jan.
 1920 (the census was taken Jan.
 1920)

 The household was found in the 8th civil
 district of Knoxville City ED 112
 Ward 21 sheet 26b The house was found on Oklahoma Avenue in Knoxville. however,

Harley Moore
 age 14 living at the National Orphans Home in
 Tiffin Ohio (b. in TN but   HARLEY died 1992, ASHEVILLE,NC.
married a   PENLEY.

Also in the 1900 Census Knox, sheet 15B was
 the following family which might
 be Annabelle's family:

 HH 270; Gray, Marshal M.l; head; WM; Aug.
 1839; 60; WD; Tn Ireland VA;
 farmer

 Gray, Beatrice; dau; WF; Jan. 1874; 26; S; Tn
 Tn Georgia; no occup

 cont. on same page as Thomas J. More:

 Gray, M. Annie; dau; WF; March 1879; 21; S; Tn
 Tn GA;

 ", An Belle; dau; WF; MARCH 1881; 19; S; Tn Tn
 GA; at school

 ", J. Sheridan; son; WM; June 1893; 16; S; Tn
 Tn GA; at school

 ", Marshall E.; son; WM; May 1895; 15; S; Tn
 Tn GA; at school

 More About Thomas Jefferson Moore:

 Census: 1910, Knox Co., Tn District 8 ED 117
 Sheet 46B Black Oak Ridge
 

 Child of Thomas Moore and Delphia Grubbs is:

 2 i. Frances2 Moore, born April 1894.

 Notes for Frances Moore:  This might be him:

 Moore, Frank

 Age: 25 Year: 1920

 Birthplace: Tennessee Roll: T625_1750

 Race: White Page: 14A

 State: Tennessee ED: 111

 County: Knox Image: 0199

 Township: Knoxville

 Frank was 25 and married to a Daisy Grubbs.
 His brother in law Lenard Grubbs
 lived with them. Daisy and Lenard were 17.
 Frank worked as a machnist at the
 railroad shop. Both Daisy and Lenard were from
 Alabama.
 
 

 1910 KNOX 8TH Civil District ED 117 SHEET 46B
 HH 900 ON BLACK OAK RIDGE:

 Moore, THOMAS, head, WM, 48; M2; married 5
 yrs; b. MO fa:MO mo: TN ; farmer
 ", ANNABELL, wife; WF; 21; M1; married 5 yrs;
 2 children; 2 living; b. TN
 ", FRANK; son; WM; 16; S.    FRANK m: DAISY GRUBBS. they are buried at the
KNOXVILLE,TN NATIONAL Cemetery. FRANK was a WW1 vet.

CHARLES; SON; wm; 4; s. its said he married a MOLES.

 IDA; DAU; WF; 2; s.    IDA MAE MOORE HAUN, died 1999.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

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AGNE'S,  b. 1874,?   not confirmed.      a death cetificate shows death May 20, 1932 in CLAKAMAS Co.OR. thie is not confirmed our AGNES.    we are not sure where she lived when she left for OREGON.
 She left Knoxville area around 1900, or possibly earlier in 1890s.
she left walking alone  with her 2 children, a boy & a girl,.their names are not known,  to Portland,Oregon?, it was rumored she gave them up for adoption on the way. as she would never tell what became of them.  an aunt here in Lafayette,In, says she remembers a town named FOSSIL,OREGON. . AGNES  remarried to a Hughes? or Hughs?. who was a farmer and raised i was told, barley for hops in beer making,he also was a barber, she passed away in the late 1930's?. of a long illness. ("she was never heard from after this time frame.")   (she said in a letter she was ill). that was the last ever heard from her. she did write her brother John "Daub" of Cumberland Gap,Tn.  she never returned to Tn.
 (dates are only guesses.)

NEW INFO, in an obit of the BORING,OR  AGNES,  it lists
3 sons. last name  JORDON.   i may delete this AGNES.

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ELIZABETH   " LIZZY"  b.1880.   Married Charlie Townsley in Tazewell,Tn . they had no children.
she was the youngest of all.                 PHOTO
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                       this is my grandparents, (my dad's side)

              John Marion "Daub" or "Dobb" (a nickname) Moore:  born Nov 1872,in Beverley,Tn,in Knoxville.      PHOTO

Spouse: Sarah Ellen Townsley,1879-1939 PHOTO
Tazewell,Tn.
birth:  5 Jun 1879, Tazewell, Claiborne Co., Tn.
Death:  25 Nov 1939, At Home In Cumberland Gap,Ky.(Note CUMBERLAND GAP town & post office are in TN.the KY is  right as my grandfather and his sons mined sand at the bottom of the path leading to the 3 states marker.also they lived beside the nine.it was on top of the ground,not underground.their house was near to the old SOVENIR stand.i have photos in the PHOTOS pages.
they lived on the Ky side of the mountain.the town of
 Cumberland Gap is in Tn & Va.

"Note their 1st 3 Kids died before age 10"
heres a page with OMA's photo.    PHOTO

Their children are:

Naomi? Oma 1894-1899.    PHOTO
Clell                no date.
Nellie "Nelly"? 1899-- no date,
uncle Jim i was told remembered Clell & Nellie.
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James" Jim" 1901-1964 Lafayette,In "Never married" S
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Clifford  1906-1971  Lafayette,In                               PHOTO

Spouse,  Laura Whitaker, 1912-,  Arthur,Tn,
Their children are:

Sidney,spouse Alice, Lafayette,In.4 children, Gary,JoAnn,Tommy,Jeff.
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Roy, spouse 1 Peggy.2nd wife? Charlotte,N.c. 5 kids,Dennis,Darlene,Brent,Brynt,Mark.
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Delores Schnarr, Lafayette,In.           2 children. Scott,Craig
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Vivian,      Chino Valley,Az.  5 ildren.Laura Lee,Billy,George,Phillip,Janie.
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Wayne,               Gastonia,Nc.          1 son David.
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Maryanne            Lafayette,In.           3 children. Charlotte,Rhonda,Denise.
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Clifford jr,            Lafayette,In.          2 children.Julie & Sarah.
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David                  Lafayette,In, 1950-1970

Laura has a sister, Ealon Whitaker, 1931--,  that lives with her,
also a  brother    ROBERT LUTHER WHITAKER
of  KLAMATH FALLS,OR.

1 of  their uncles name was, Frank Whitaker, Arthur,Tn. some cousins are, lates:  Wade, & Tad Whitaker.
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Mildred "Minnie"  1/10/1910- 09/30/1973 Lafayette,In.
"Never married."         PHOTO
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Gar  Lewis         11/28/1912- 05/01/1961 Lafayette,In.  (my dad.)      PHOTO
Spouse,  Florence Hundley,05/15/1922--08/13/1982,
Cumberland Gap,Tn,      PHOTO mom on right.
to more  HUNDLEY PHOTOS
to HUNDLEY GEN   PAGES
 

their children are:
Alton,           1945-1945 8 DAYS.
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Louis Ray,    Lafayette,IN, (me.)
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Hollis,          Harogate,Tn.
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Denton,    spouse Brenda Wheatley,1 son Steven.
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Mike ,           Bean Station,Tn, 1 son Zane.
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Robert,         Memphis,Tn.
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EDITH `MOORE "NORTH"  my dad's  sister.      1915-1980 Speedwell,Tn         PHOTOS PAGE

spouse: Dit  North,  08/20/1917-- 04/24/1989

2 Children they are

Velma Lee "Mrs.Fred Lipps",
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James,    he has  1 child   is dead.(sids)
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Vearl Mpore "Lambert" "Truax"  1921-12/26/1993 Lafayette,In.
Spouse 1, Buford Lambert, Monroe,Mi. Formally of Tazewell,Tn
1 son Lynn Lambert. Monroe,Mi.
Spouse 2, Dayton Truax, Lafayette,In.     PHOTOS
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Olan,1919- 12/09/1944  Phillipines, Burr Air Strip.   PHOTOS
he was in the 149th infantry devision  "cyclone"
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I've adden new photo additions. go to my home page,
click  "OLD MOORE PHOTOS".

Thank you Millie Cheatham of Knoxville.Tn for 2 pictures of Jim & Olan.
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