[or-roots] Is this your family?

[Harguess, Dale]

Once again I have to comment on the interesting names that people gave their children back in those days.  My James Ellison Howell who was born in Tennessee had a brother names Squire Howell.  He also named one of his sons (a twin) Doctor Carswell Howell.  When I was doing the genealogy I couldn’t help think that these people had delusions of grandeur but now I think they must have just been fad names at the time.  Lafayette was another common name at this time in history.  I must have at least six Lafayette’s.

Dale

P.S.  I have friend named Zilpha that is a pretty unusual name.

 

Anthony Moore married Zilphia Haines (daughter of Bethanah/Bethany Haines) in Frederick, Virginia. They were Quakers. They moved to Tennessee. Their son David Moore married "out of unity" to Margaret Sherman in Tennessee. This was in the Lone Mountain area of NE Tennessee - near Grainger, Hawkins, Greene, and Claiborne counties, TN. Of many kids, David Moore had two sons I know a lot about : Squire Moore and Alfred Moore. Squire Moore's first wife was Rebecca Capps. They are the parents of my great great grandmother Lucinda Jane Moore Sumner b. About 1831 in TN. She married Samuel Sumner Jr. (b. Abt. 1829 Clark Co., IN) in Linn County, Missouri. After Rebecca died, Squire married again to Celia Catherine Anderson Curtis and had about 5 more kids; his second wife already had many kids so there were about 15 altogether. 

Many of David Moore's children married  the children of Fielding Lewis of the Lone Mt. area of TN. For example, Lucinda Moore, the youngest sister of Squire and Alfred Moore married Fielding Lewis Jr. They had moved to MO and then left for Oregon in 1852. On the Oregon Trail, Lucinda and three of her children died. Fielding Jr. and the other children settled in Oregon. I have more details if you want them.

Lucinda Jane Moore Sumner's favorite cousin was Margaret Melissa Moore, daughter of Alfred Moore and Mahulda Bullard. They are buried near each other in Etna Cemetery, Polk County. Lucinda's half brother James Robinson Moore married Nancy Ellen McClintock and they came to Oregon as well and lived near the Etna Church in Polk County. Nancy Ellen's sister Eliza Frances McClintock married James Edgar, and they are buried in Etna Cemetery as well. Samuel and Lucinda Jane Moore Sumner's son James Clark Sumner married Lucinda Frances Tremain in Linn Co., MO; she was the daughter of John Hardy Tremain and Mary Ann McClintock - a sister of Nancy Ellen and Eliza. These sisters were the daughters of Findley McClintock and his wife Nancy Sumner. "We are all related."

Paulette



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