George Henry Moore, 1888-1965

Daily Iowegian - 4 October 1965

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  George Henry Moore, long-time resident of Mystic, Iowa, passed away Friday, October 1, 1965, at the Veterans Hospital in Des Moines at the age of 77 years, eight months and 18 days.

  Born in Rooks County, Kansas, January 13, 1888, he was the son of Albert and Millie Hibbs Moore. He is a retired farmer, Veteran of World War I, member of the American Legion, V.F.W. and World War I Veterans.

  He is survived by two brothers and two sisters, Mrs. Bessie Blair of Cincinnati, Ia., Mrs. Elsie Wakefield of Mystic, Chas. Moore of Harrisburg, Penn., Frank Moore of Carlisle, Ia.

  He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers and a sister.

  Funeral services were held Sunday at 1:30 p.m. October 3, 1965, from the Johnson Funeral Home with Rev. George A. Sheils officiating and burial in the Jerome Cemetery.

Sarah Louisiana McCann Moore, 1855-1937

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  Sarah Louisiana Moore, oldest daughter of John and Abigail McCann, was born near Moravia, Iowa, July 16, 1855 and passed away at her home in Miltonvale, Kansas, Feb. 12, 1937, at the age of 81 years, 6 months and 25 days.

  She grew to womanhood near Moravia, Iowa and on Sept. 18, 1875 was married to Elijah Moore of Jerome, Iowa, where they lived the first three years.
 They, having a desire to acquire a home, emigrated west settling in Cloud County, Kansas, 10 miles west of Miltonvale, Mr. Moore coming in the spring of 1878 and Mrs. Moore and two small children the following November to share the humble little home prepared for them by the husband and father. It was there they lived and toiled together, rearing a family of nine children, seven of whom survive her, Mrs. Esther A. Fuller of Ames, Kansas, Mrs. Mina B. Roll of Glasco, Kansas, Mrs. Minnie M. Briggs and Mrs. Mary E. Farrington of Miltonvale, Kansas, John and Roy of Elkhart, Kansas and Jesse D. of Baker, Oregon, all of whom were with her at the end except Jesse D. who was unable to be present. Two children and her husband preceded her in death, Mr. Moore passing away June 5, 1934, Mattie Jane Criddlebaugh June 21, 1935 and Martin E. July 22, 1936.

  Soon after coming to Kansas, Mrs. Moore was converted and became a member of the Meredith Christian Church. In the spring of 1916 they moved to Miltonvale, Kansas, where they transferred their membership to the Wesleyan Methodist church remaining a faithful member til her death. She found comfort and consolation in reading her Bible and often spoke of going home to join her loved ones there.

  She leaves to mourn her passing seven children, 34 grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren, a sister Mrs. Ella Foster of Centerville, Iowa, besides many other relatives and friends. 

  After the death of her husband she made her home with her daughter, Mrs. C. R. Fuller, at Ames, until last October when she returned to her old home in Miltonvale, where she tenderly cared for her daughter, Mrs. G. A. Farrington.

  Funeral services were held at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel with Rev. Earl Corry in charge, assisted by Rev. Henry Williams and Rev. Archie Harris. Singing by the male quartet. Pallbearers were six grandsons and flower girls were four granddaughters. The body was laid to rest in the Oakland Cemetery beside her husband.

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No one knows the silent heartaches;

Only those who've lost can tell

Of the grief that borne in silence

For the mother loved so well

But I feel that thou, dear mother,

Art more happier by far

In the home prepared by Jesus

Where your troubles are all o'er.

You are gone but not forgotten;

Never will your memory fade

Kindest thoughts shall ever linger

Round the grave where you are laid.

Mother, just how much I miss you

I would never tell

But I feel you are at rest

With Jesus who makes all things well.

Now I hope that I will meet you

When I leave this world of care

I know it would be the answer

To your many, many prayers.

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Card of Thanks

  We desire to express our appreciation to those who so kindly assisted us in the sickness and after the death of our beloved mother and grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Moore. We assure you your kindness will ever be a sweet memory to us.

  --The Children and Grandchildren

Elijah Moore, 1851-1934

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  Elijah Moore, oldest son of John and Mary Moore, was born near Jerome, Iowa, September 27, 1851 and departed this life at his home at Miltonvale, Kansas, June 5, 1934, at the age of 82 years, 8 months and 8 days, after an illness of six months.

 He spent the early part of his life on the farm where he was born. September 18, 1875, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah McCann at Centerville, Iowa, where they lived for three years. Mr. Moore, having a desire to obtain a home, immigrated west by wagon train and settled on a homestead in Meredith Township, Cloud County, Kansas, where he toiled building a home for his wife and two children, who arrived in December of the same year.

  Four sons and five daughters were born to them, all of who are living except the oldest son, Martin, who passed away July 22, 1916. Those surviving are his widow, Mrs. Sarah Moore, Mattie J. Criddlebaugh, Mary E. Farmington, John R. and E. Leroy, all of Elkart, Kansas; Minnie M. Briggs of Miltonvale, Kans.; Mina B. Roll of Glasco, Kans.; Esther A. Fuller of Ames, Kans.; and Jesse D. of Ogden, Kans., also 26 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.

  He is also survived by the following brothers and sisters, John A. of Jeromeville, Ohio; Geo. R. of Centerville, Iowa, Edd. E. of Cincinnati, Iowa; Alfred H. of Edmond, Kans.; Mrs. Francis Wailes of Centerville, Iowa and Mrs. Lizzie Cozad of Wheatland, Wyoming.

  Mr. Moore was converted to Christ in the year 1887 and became a member of the Meredith Christian Church. Mr. Moore and wife retired from the farm in 1915 taking up their residence in Miltonvale, Kansas, at which time they transferred their church membership to the Wesleyan Methodist Church.

  Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Cooper of Lamar, Kansas at the College Chapel in Miltonvale, Kans., June 7 and burial was made at the Oakland Cemetery west of town. The pall bearers were six grandsons and the flower girls four granddaughters.

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Card of Thanks

  We wish to express our thanks to the many friends and neighbors, who so kindly assisted us during the illness and death of our loved one. The many deeds of kindness, the beautiful songs sung and the floral offerings will ever be cherished in our memory.

  Mrs. E. Moore, Children and Grandchildren

George Elmer Moore, 1879-1955

  George Elmer Moore was born 10 July 1879 in Jerome, Appanoose County, Iowa, son of Joel E. Moore (1853-1899) and Mary Vandorn (1855-1928), and died 3 February 1955 at his home, 419 East 6th Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah.  He married Bertha Ellen Murphy who survived him. He was a retired coal miner.  He was buried in Rock Springs, Wyoming.

George Elmer Moore's Utah Death Certificate

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Lincoln Township, Appanoose County

Past and Present of Appanoose County, Iowa

Edited by L. L. Taylor

Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913

Page 406-407

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Lincoln township is bounded on the west by Wayne county, on the north by Johns township, on the east by Bellair and Pleasant townships, and on the south by Franklin township. It was organized in the '50s. Jerome postoffice was established a number of years ago but has been discontinued.

Lincoln has many good farms, the soil being arable and well drained by Cooper and Shoal creeks. Its people are industrious and progressive, as the well-tilled fields, good roads and fences, modern homes and farm buildings well attest. There are no better supported district schools in the county and the churches testify to the religious character of the men and women. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroads enter the township.

Among the early settlers were John Moore, who came here in 1848. He is said to have killed thirty deer in one week, they were so plentiful. Mr. Moore was wont to tell of his experiences. Wolves were so numerous that the farmers' live stock were in constant danger from their ravages. He told of killing a buck, a fine, large fellow. After skinning and dressing it, he took a hind quarter to town and traded it for the family's first set of cups and saucers. No mill, at the time of his settlement here, was closer than Des Moines, so the family subsisted for a while on grated boiled corn. Their buckwheat flour was made by a coffee mill.

S. C. Van Ness left the Keystone state in 1857 and arrived in this county. He became one of the prosperous men of this township.

Peter Sidles, born in Ohio, became a resident of this county in 1859. He located on section 3 in this township, and soon had one of the finest farms in the community. He was a veteran of the Civil War and very prominent both in church and lodge circles.

A. S. Van Dorn, after four years' experience in the gold mines of California, settled down to farm life in this township in 1855. He prospered and attained a place in the estimation of his neighbors that was enviable.

John Maning [Manning], an Ohioan, settled here in 1854 and became prosperous and influential. His son Harvey was a member of the Eighth Iowa Volunteer Cavalry.

Jonathan Rinker, a Kentuckian by birth, came to this state from Indiana in 1845, bring with him his wife, Elizabeth. They first settled in Van Buren county, removing from there to Appanoose in 1851 and entering a tract of land. The family, consisting of eleven members, traveled to their new home in a wagon drawn by oxen, and when he arrived at his destination Mr. Rinker had but eleven dollars remaining. The boys of the family were Robert F., Oliver C., Franklin, Leander, Walter and George W.

C. R. Jackson located in this township in 1854, coming from Indiana.

Robert S. Lowry was born in Indiana. The year 1847 found him in Illinois and from that state he removed to Appanoose county in 1853, locating on section 20, this township. He became one of the largest landholders in the county, owning at one time over a thousand acres. Mr. Lowry dealth largely in live stock and reaped a generous profit from his operations, part of which he invested in bank stock.

M. Darrah and his father, Henry Darrah, were early in the county, coming here in 1856. In 1858 the son married Susannah Lawrer, daughter of William and Catherine Lawrer, early settlers in the county.

Addison Pendergast was born in Ripley county, Indiana, in 1848. In 1858 he settled in this township with his parents. He was a veteran of the Civil war.

Henry Moreland [Morlan], who married Belinda C. Jones, daughter of an Appanoose pioneer, settled in this town in 1852. In the following spring they removed to Independence township.

Memories of Jerome, Iowa - Part V - Cemetery

  At the same time the school site was purchased, a plot of ground, three-fourths of an acre, near the school property and owned by Jacob Stoner was set aside for a grave yard.  There was no deed recorded of this property until 1900 when Harve Andrews, G. B. Van Dorn and E. L. Shontz trustees of Lincoln township, deeded the property to the Jerome Cemetery Association which had been founded in 1898.

  In the interim a larger tract adjoining the original cemetery plot had been purchased from B. F. Sedgwick.  First officers of the Cemetery Association were D. D. Wilson, president; Peter Wilson, secretary; and Wm. Hagan, treasurer; Lincoln Moore, James Barton and George Sidles, Se. were the first trustees.  Each of these officers took an active part in the Association until his death.

  The first grave in the cemetery plot was that of Willie Moore, eldest son of John and Mary Moore, buried in 1850.  This child was a brother of Mrs. George Wailes. 
  [From Memories of Jerome, Iowa, 1989 published for the 1989 Jerome Reunion.]

Memories of Jerome, Iowa - Part I

  The village of Jerome is located in Lincoln township, Appanoose County, Iowa.

  The names of the scattered settlers who came into the Jerome vicinity during the territorial days of Iowa have been for the most part long since forgot, but by the time Iowa became a state families establishing homes here had handed down names familiar to many residents of the area today.  Among the settlers who came in the late 40s and the early 50s to make this their home were John Moore, William Becknal, David Hawkins, John Criswell, Noah Stoner, C. R. Jackson, Henry Wilson, John F. Fuqua, S. C. Vanness, Peter Sidles and James Hagan.

  At this time much of the land was still government-owned and came into the hands of the early settlers by government patent.  Others bought from previous individual owners, even at this early date.  Parts of the farm owned by Peter Sidles is recorded as having been transferred from Robert C. Thorn to Joseph Delay to Peter Sidles, grandfather of the present owner.  Similar early transfers of property are recorded on land now owned by Kenneth Owen, earlier known as the Moore farm. This is true in other instances.

  One interesting case in Lincoln township shows land came into ownership by purchase at Chariton of soldier's grants, called bounty land, areas given by the government to the soldiers engaged in the military service of the United States.  Documents still available show sales of land from Mary Fisher, widow of Thomas Fisher, private in the War of 1812, Conrad Pinckard, private in the War of 1812, Henry Whitehead, private in the Seminole War, and David Cooney, private in a Florida War, all to Noah Stoner.  The purchase amounted to 320 acres, bought in 1856 through papers signed by Franklin Pierce, President of the United States.

  Men who came in the 60s were James Moore, Samuel Pendergast, D. S. Larimer, Henry Entzinger, Thomas Owen, Jacob Kinney, John Pendergast, Wm. D. McElvain, Wm. G. Crow, L. D. Dudley, James L. Buck and W. W. Bollman.  In 1870 Jesse G. Kinney established his home here. Ora, his son, now living in Seymour, recalls early memories of the time when there were only four homes in Jerome, those of Henry Wilson, Daniel Larimer, Calvin Jackson and James Hagan.

  As soon as the early settlers constructed their houses they began to establish a school and a church, thus starting a small village.  Horace W. Lyon was an early merchant, his place of business being in the home later occupied by the Larimers, a building that sat east of the present Carl Hamm home.  Mr. Lyon was said not be have been popular in the community for many objected because he sold liquor.  However, he had a blind son named Jerome who was very popular.  The town was named for this son.

  [From Memories of Jerome, Iowa, 1989 published for the 1989 Jerome Reunion.]