Jefferson Davis Moore (1861 - 1948)

Born 3 Aug 1861 in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, United States of America

Ancestors

Husband of Winnie Lena (Jones) Moore — married 3 Aug 1902 in Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, United States of America

Descendants

Died 2 Apr 1948 at age 86 in Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, United States of America

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Biography

Jefferson Davis Moore, called Jeff, was born 03 Aug 1861^[1] in Louisiana to Peter Moore^[2]and his first wife Rebecca Elizabeth Parker.^[3]

Crippled from illness with yellow fever as a child, he was the only member of his family to survive, the entire family taken in two epidemics after the Civil War. Dad remembers his mother, Jeff's daughter Maggie talking about visiting the family burial site as a child and being scolded for picking flowers near the graves due to a fear of contracting the disease as people still did not know, or believe the cause of yellow fever.^[4]

He married Winnie Jones.^[5]

They had the following known children:

1. Robert Moore was born about 1905 in Louisiana and died 2e Sep 1916 in Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana.^[5]

In 1940 Jeff and Winnie are living on East Haig Street in precinct 28, Plateau, Mobile County, Alabama and their daughter Izzie is with them.^[6] East Haig is the next Street North of and parrallel to Petain Street.

Jeff died 02 Apr 1948^[1] in Bastrop, Louisiana.^[3] He is buried in Causey Cemetery in Bastrop.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Tombstone, Causey Cemetery, Bastrop, LA
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M877-QFM : 17 October 2014), Jefferson Moore in household of Peter Moore, Louisiana, United States; citing p. 72, family 565, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,016.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} "Louisiana Deaths Index, 1850-1875, 1894-1956," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSBX-P2R : 12 December 2014), Jeff D Moore, 02 Apr 1948; citing Bastrop, Morehouse, Louisiana, certificate number 5 332, State Archives, Baton Rouge; FHL microfilm 1,409,132.
4. ↑ Recollections of Ira C. Franklin, grandson.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} "Louisiana Deaths Index, 1850-1875, 1894-1956," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F337-JHN : 12 December 2014), Jeff Moore in entry for Robert Moore, 23 Sep 1916; citing Monroe, Ouachita, Louisiana, certificate number 478, State Archives, Baton Rouge; FHL microfilm 2,364,188.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1PN-DXV : accessed 31 October 2016), Jefferson Moore, Election Precinct 28, Mobile, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 49-42, sheet 26B, family 521, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 63.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #17384788 accessed on 14 Nov 2019
• Family Record of Bob & Mary Ann Jones.
• Letter from RD Fillingame to Ira C. Franklin, his cousin, 05 Jan 1991.
• LA Death Certificate.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD6B-VD8 : 13 July 2016), Jefferson B Moore in household of George F Hill, 2nd Ward, Morehouse, Louisiana, United States; citing enumeration district ED 52, sheet 353C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0456; FHL microfilm 1,254,456.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPYH-M6Q : 29 October 2015), J D Moore, Police Jury Ward 2, Morehouse, Louisiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 89, sheet 8B, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,374,531.
• "United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMYP-T9J : 8 December 2015), Jeff More, 1930.
• Marriage license of daughter Margaret Mae (Maggie) Moore to C. Trevor Coleman
• NARA Homestead Packet Application #15148, Certificate #8393
• LA Marriage record

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Lisa Franklin for creating Moore-14094 on 16 Oct 13.