Ideas for Further Research

Susan Moore, Pete's daughter, contributes ideas for further research:

 

you know that we are related to the evans of colorado

john evans family were quakers from around greensboro

they sold off their possessions and moved to indiana or illnois because they were anti slavery

when he was 16 john left home to put himself through medical school because he parents didn't want him to become a doctor

he practiced in southern indiana or illinois

he started northwestern university

moved to denver and became the second territorial governor of colorado

appointed by President Lincoln whom he had met when he was working on the underground railroad and Lincoln was campaigning for president

unfortunately while he was on a trip out of colorado the infamous sand creek massacre happened (a militia action not a government military action)

so he was removed as governor

he also was a gambler

and a banker

interesting

his daughter (i think) married Hudson Moore

who i think was the nephew of granddad's uncle

i'm fuzzy on the last few 'facts'

interesting huh

there also was a famous Bob or Bill Moore in Oklahoma territory who was an outlaw

maybe Hudson"s relative?

just a few thoughts

Memories of the Danville Home on North Main Street

Grandfather James Sims, Cora's husband, died when Pete was still a toddler. Inez remained in the home  with Cora and Pete after her husband Ernest Moore left, moving back to Charlottesville. I asked Pete about his memories of living in the home as a young child. He responded in an email.

 

 After Mom (Inez) remarried, I was transferred to Nannie's bed. I was about four years old. Before long I was moved to the finished attic, which I shared with old trunks containing my grandfathers's books and stuff, a dressmaker's dummy, odds and ends typical of an attic in those days A bit unusual to have a pretty decently completed room as the attic, at least in a working-class neighborhood. Hot in summer, cold in winter. Didn't have a pot----no need at that age. I remember that I could crawl out on the roof through the rear dormer window and go directly into the cherry tree, and thence to the ground.

There was no basement ( not having a boiler we didn't need one ), just a crawl space about four feet high. There was a combination coalhouse/storage behind and near the house. It was near enough to the street that coal could be shoveled in through a special small door. There was a concrete floor, as I recall. When I was big enough it was my job to fill and bring in the coal scuttle, as well as chop the kindling. Many memories of that backyard: eating cherries and grapes, getting stung by stepping on bees under the grape arbor (discarded grape skins), trekking though the grape arbor to the johnny-house, learning at least three ways to kill a chicken.

Email memory from Pete: the train wreck of Ole 97

Pete sent an email with a link to YouTube song of Roy Acuff or Johhny Cash singing the folk song about the famous wreck. This has a family link, as Pete explains below. He says:

"This is full of memories, besides having heard th song a hundred times, I was told that my grandfather (James Sims ? ) took my mother (Inez) and uncle  (which uncle?) as children to see the wreckage (it was in easy walking distance from their house) a day or so after the wreck on a Sunday. his first day off from work-----the work week was six days a week, ten hours a day back then, in the good old days."

If you are interested,  and the link no longer works, you can Google the link to:  youtube ole 97 train wreck. (For you neophytes, rightclick on the link below!)

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTBF6gj_K9M

From: Pete Moore

Back into the Past.....

At the bottom of this page are family photos supplied mostly by Pete Moore to daughter Barbara Moore Bowling. In the interest of avoiding further confusion I will upload the older family pics onto a new site dubbed Aldersons of North Carolina and Virginia, although I also have information on Cheneys, Whites, and more. Check the link for the older pix....

Of the below, I personally remember "Grandma" Inez very clearly. After a stay in the hospital in Danville, where I was allowed to visit with Daddy, she died of heart disease, having also suffered from adult-onset diabetes. She died in 1966 and is buried in Danville in Mt. View Cemetery.  Nannie Cora died in 1947, also in Danville. It would be interesting to check cemetery records there....

Photos of Harold Sims Moore

I would like to get any additional information about these photos as possible. Please note questions at photos. It is a nuisance that posted photos enter in an "update" form with last entered showing up at the top. Also, if any more computer-literate person would like to suggest a more organized or accessible way of posting/publishing these, I would like to know......thanks!  Photos show up at the bottom of this page, just scroll down. For now, moving on to the older photos......Barbara Moore Bowling

Kermit Lee Mayberry contributes Family Files and Photos

Thanks to Uncle Lee we now have many new family photos and genealogical information on the Aldersons, Chaneys, Whites, Sheltons, Donelsons, and Morrises who all seemed to live in the Laurel Grove area northeast of Danville, Virginia from the 1750's onward. These families lived and intermarried in the area for generations. The files include land grants, wills, census reports, and pedigrees. Lee was given much of the genealogical material by Fay and Albert Taylor (?), perhaps from the Mayberry side of the family. Fay has sadly died. She reported to Uncle Lee that the library (?) has a lot of info. Visitors can see more genealogical information which is kept in a locked  genealogy room there. Among other information, the record of where Jerri (Jeremiah?) White, Abraham White's (born 1794) son, is buried on the old plantation land, marked by a stone. Jeremiah Sr's will bequeathing slaves ( a horrifying discovery) and property complete with a list of all  properties down to the silverware, is included in the material Lee sent me. Some of the land deeds also mention Birch Creek and Sweeting Fork, also in the area. This is an introduction; much more to follow!
If anyone can add information to the above, there is room for comments below. For a start, how old is Daddy in the wonderful portrait on this page?

Grandaddy Ernest Moore Journals Found

J has scanned Grandaddy's journals, five notebooks full of recollections and hopefully we can get them online asap! He has found several photos in them as well. I will type them up also so they will be easy to read.

Family, we need old black and white photos too. Wouldn't it be cool to post them online so we can all make copies? I have some great ones of Daddy, Grandma Mayberry and her parents, and some old guy I can't identify. Once I get them scanned I will post them and hopefully someone will know who he is.

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