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.

Note: on the bottom of the blog page (or on some pages, the tool bar at the top) I see there is a button where you can subscribe to emails from this blog  or follow this blog as an option to keep up with updates.

HS Moore Ancestry Blog Up and Running

So far, so good. The blog thing seems to be a good start for gathering, posting info on the ancestry of the HS Moore clan. Got a tidbit from Daddy Pete today confirming that yes, Grandma Inez Sims Moore Mayberry was indeed a local union organizer at the Danville textile mills during the early decades of the 20th century. She worked with regional organizers to recruit locals, meeting them at her home.
Pete reported to me in his usual taciturn, crusty style: "Two of the union guys came to our house for, I assume, consultation and planning-------what did I know?. I was a kid. I remember they got me a pair of moleskin "riding pants" to go with my hightop boots.


I will attempt to attach links I found online that follow some of the union activites in those days of unfair employment practices, pay, working conditions, and harsh treatment.  For you young'uns who want to know more about unions and working conditions in the mills and factories that brought our country out of the rural past, I recently saw a  fascinating movie called Harlan County Kentucky about the violence often sparked by union protests. It was set during the 1970's and is a trip back in time, a powerful and realistic depiction of mountain folk back in the day.....Beddow/Breeden/Lawson folk! Wow.


As with the Beddow-Breeden blog, family members and friends can come online to add or correct  information or just find out stuff about their family.