THROUGH
MOUNTAIN MISTS
Early Settlers of Union
County, Georgia
Their
Descendants...Their Stories...Their Achievements
Lifting the
Mists of History on Their Way of Life
By: Ethelene Dyer Jones
Continuing
With the James and Albert Moore Families
of Early Union and Towns Counties (part 3)
Continuing with two of the
families cited
in the article published January 27, 2011 (Part 2) on Moore families in
early
Union County, we learn that when Towns County was formed in 1856, at
least two
of the Moore families living in Union in 1850—those of James and
Albert—were
within the bounds of the new county, Towns.
In 1850, the household the census
taker numbered 627 in Union had only
two
people in residence, James Moore, age 70 and his wife, June Moore, age
67. Six years later this couple at age 76
and 73
respectively found themselves within the new county of Towns,
living in the Woods Grove section. They
had not moved. The new geography had just absorbed them as citizens of
Towns.
James Moore was born July 10, 1779 in Rowan
(maybe Iredell) County, North
Carolina. His
mother and father had migrated to America from Ireland
prior
to the American Revolution. James Moore
married June Stevenson. She was born in
1783. They first made their home in Haywood County, North Carolina on a little farm
alongside Crabtree
Creek. The children born to them were
named Harriet who married Hiram McLean, Clarissa Ann who married David
Sellers,
Aveline who married Samuel Sellers, and Johial, Terzey and Marcella
whose
spouses (if any) are unknown, and then the seventh child, Albert Moore
who
married Sarah McClure (more about this family later).
Sometime prior to the 1850 Union County, Georgia
census, James and June
McClure left their Crabtree Creek home in Haywood County, North
Carolina
and moved to the new and burgeoning Union County
and settled in the
Woods Grove community. Perhaps it was
their youngest son, Albert, who convinced his elderly parents to move
when
Albert and Sarah decided to settle in Union. But James and June Moore did not have many
years remaining in their lives in Union/Towns.
June Moore died April 17, 1857 and James Moore died May 30, 1862.
Their bodies were interred in North Carolina soil at Ely in Clay County
in the Old
Union Cemetery
there.
Albert and Sarah Moore were registered
by the census taker as living in household numbered 234 in Union County
in 1850. Albert was born in Haywood County, NC
on August 7, 1819. He married Sarah McClure, born April 3, 1822, a
daughter of
John and Sarah Cathey McClure. We learned from Part 2 in this account
of this Moore
family that seven
of their nine children had been born prior to the 1850 census. Later, Albert and Sarah would have two more
children. Their children were:
(1)
Talitha
Caroline (July 19, 1839-May 30, 1930) married on May 15, 1856 to Jehu Parker
(2)
Nancy
Ann (b. 1842) married Andrew James (“Jim”) Burch on Nov. 4, 1875
(3)
Christopher
Columbus (May 2, 1843-Sept. 26, 1921) married Mary Elizabeth Swanson on
Dec. 14, 1865
(4)
Altha
(b. 1845) married George Tipton
(5)
Andrew
Americus (b. 1846) married Mary A. Green on March 3, 1867
(6)
Sarah
Jane (b. 1848) married a Parker
(7)
Mercilla
Arlene (b. 1850) married William L. Townsley on August 31, 1870
(8)
Tursey
M. (b. 1852) and
(9)
Clarissa
Melvina E. (b. 1854) married M. Henry Brown of Walker County
Albert and Sarah McClure Moore settled
into life in the new county
of Towns after
they were
absorbed into it by virtue of where they lived when that county was
laid out in
1856. Then the Civil War came, and
Albert Moore served with the Confederate forces during the war.
After the war, in early 1871, Albert
Moore added to his already-held property by purchasing 150 acres from
Marcus
Kimsey for $300. The property was in
Land Lot 50 of the 17th District along Long Bullet Creek. Records show that Albert Moore sold 80 acres
in 1887 to his brother-in-law George W. Tipton for $300, receiving as
much as
he had paid earlier for the entire tract of land.
In 1895, Albert Moore deeded to his
third child, Christopher Columbus Moore (known as “Lum”) the remainder
of his
land. The deed had a stipulation that
Lum Moore would take in and care for his parents, Albert and Sarah
McClure
Moore, for the remainder of their lives.
As was customary in that era, Lum Moore was true to his father’s
wishes
and provided a good home for his parents until their deaths.
Albert Moore died June 8, 1897 and his wife Sarah died
almost two years later on March 18, 1899. They
were interred
at the Woods
Grove Baptist
Church Cemetery,
Towns County, Georgia near where they had
made their
home since migrating from Haywood
County, North Carolina
to Union
County prior to
1850.
c2011 by
Ethelene Dyer
Jones; published Feb. 17, 2011 in The Union Sentinel, Blairsville,
GA.
Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
[Ethelene Dyer
Jones is a retired educator,
freelance writer, poet, and historian. She may be reached at
e-mail edj0513@windstream.net;
phone 478-453-8751; or mail 1708 Cedarwood Road, Milledgeville, GA
31061-2411.]
Updated February 21, 2011
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