When Laura C. Culpepper-Moore was born on February 1, 1866, in McMinn, Tennessee, her father, Francis Culpepper, was 25 and her mother Polly Lemons was 20. She married James Knox Moore on December 24, 1891, in McMinn County, Tennessee. They had one child, Henry Vaughn Moore. She died on October 30, 1951, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, at the age of 85.
Laura's mother died during Laura's childbirth or shortly after. Her father remarried in 1867 at some point before 1870 left Laura and her older sister Mary in the care of their aunt, Harriet Lemons and move to Illinois where he died in 1897. It is unknown at this point if Harriet Lemons officially adopted them but she did raise them as her own. It is also unknown why Francis Culpepper did not raise his daughters and left them in Tennessee. He did go on to have other children with his second wife.
James and Laura Moore were listed as owning a farm in the 1900 census. Harriet Lemons Davis is living with them in this census. In the 1920 census it lists the street name as Dry Valley Road. Also on this census, next to them is James Moore's nephew John A Moore and his son George Rector Moore. John A Moore married Nancy Davis, who was Laura's cousin and Harriet's niece and step-daughter. Today in 2013 a living Moore descendant is living on the same family farm.
Moore, Mrs. Laura C., age 85, died at her residence, 619 West sixth St, Tuesday afternoon, on Dec 30th. She is survived by a son, Henry V Moore, of Hixson, TN.; one grandchild, Mrs Mary Longwith of Chattanooga, and three great-grand-children. Funeral services conducted by Rev. Herman Lovelace will be held in the chapel of the National Funeral Home at 12 o'clock noon Thursday. Interment will be in Moore Cemetery near Charleston, TN.
Records Found
1880 United States Federal Census: District 1, Polk, Tennessee, age 14.
Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002: McMinn, Tennessee, age 25.
1900 United States Federal Census: Civil District 8, Bradley, Tennessee, age 34.
1910 United States Federal Census: Civil District 3, Bradley, Tennessee, age 44.
1920 United States Federal Census: Civil District 3, Bradley, Tennessee, age 54.
1930 United States Federal Census: District 3, Bradley, Tennessee, age 64.
1940 United States Federal Census: Bradley, Tennessee, age 74.
Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002 Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002. Nashville, TN, USA: Tennessee State Library and Archives. Microfilm.
1900 United States Federal Census Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls. Paid Link.
1910 United States Federal Census Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Paid Link.
1920 United States Federal Census Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Paid Link.
1930 United States Federal Census Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls. Paid Link.
1940 United States Federal Census Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.
Tennessee, Death Records, 1908-1958 Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Tennessee Death Records, 1908-1958. Nashville, Tennessee: Tennessee State Library and Archives. Tennessee City Death Records Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Memphis 1848-1907. Nashville, Tennessee: Tennessee State Library and Archives.
Tennessee, Deaths and Burials Index, 1874-1955 Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: "Tennessee Deaths and Burials, 1874–1955." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records.
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Kari Lemons for creating WikiTree profile Culpepper-Moore-1 through the import of Francis Marion Culpepper Family_2013-11-01.ged on Nov 1, 2013.
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