Notes from Occupation event: homemaker
Buried in Moore Family Cemetery, Lower Blue Springs Rd, Hamilton, Ga.
William Makepeace Thackery MOORE
Notes from Occupation event: farmer and cotton mill worker
Notes from Residence event: fairfax, AL
Thacker, as most all the Moore men, had a big mustache. He was a farmer in Harris County. In the 1900 census he still farmed in the Blue Spring District but by the 1910 census was farming in the Whitesville District of Harris County. He was at least 25 years older than his wife and according to the 1900 census married in 1896 making him about 41 when he finally married. His brother Bose (Alexander John) was living with Thacker and his family in 1900 and was shown as a widower although it was always passed down that Bose never married. In the 1910 census, Alsberry Carlisle was living with Thacker and his family and he was 14. This is Georgene Holeman's uncle. Bose was not living with Thacker in 1910.
Notes from Occupation event: farmer
Nothing much is known of Virgil except he found disfavor with his father Augustus and he was practically disowned in Augustus's will, being left only $5.00. I did find him on the 1900 and 1910 censuses living in the Blue Spring Distict in 1900 and the Lower 19th District 707 in the 1910 census. Found no record of him in the 1920 census.
Notes from Occupation event: farmer-justice of the peace
Notes from Occupation event: homemaker
Aunt Foundlan was a tiny woman who dipped snuff in her later years. She lived in her family home with her mother after she married E. L. Pearce. She never had children. She is buried in Blue Springs Cemetery.
Notes from Occupation event: horse trader
Thomas Huey Moore apparently found disfavor with his father Augustus, as in Augustus will he was only left $5.00 along with the son Virgil who also must have found disfavor.
According to his granddaughter, Minnie Sarah Dunbar Moore, he followed her grandmother up north from the south and married her. A most romantic story. According to her, he was drowned crossing the frozen Mississippi River in 1903. Later she clarified this, saying he tried to cross the river when it was frozen and the ice gave way. He died from exposure about three days later.
After Thomas Huey's wife died in 1893, he lived with Iva Jane and her husband, Bernie Dunbar until his death.