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Rebecca Jane (Becky) Moore formerly Cook aka McCraw

Born 7 Jul 1892 in Surry County, NC

Ancestors

Daughter of Henry Martin Cook

and Martha Elizabeth (Brinkley) Cook

Sister of Mattie (Cook) Ramey, Hattie Cook, Ella Mae (Cook) Council, William Cook, Samuel D. Cook and Emma Cook

Wife of Cornelius Warren McCraw — married 1 Jan 1911 in Stewarts Creek, Surry County, NC

Wife of Houston Byrd Moore — married 21 Nov 1949 in Surry County, NC

Descendants

Mother of [private daughter (1910s - 1990s)] and CW McCraw

Died 18 Apr 1980 at age 87 in Surry County, NC

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Biography

She was named after her paternal grandmother, Rebecca Jane Jessup, and she went by the nickname, "Becky". She had a twin brother, Willie. She said that he died after a fall from a tree during an epileptic seizure. She married her first husband, Neil, at 18 years of age. It was a difficult life for them, especially being during the Great Depression. Her first husband died when her youngest child was 16. Their children were Warren, Josephine, Ossie, and Dub. Ossie died in infancy.

Becky married Houston Byrd Moore seven years later after Neil’s death. She and Houston lived in a cinder block house with a barn in the back. The barn had a hayloft to which grandchildren were, much to their dismay, not allowed to climb. There was also a grape arbor in the back with delicious grapes. Houston preceded her in death. Becky's final years were spent in a Mt. Airy nursing home where she died from cancer at the age of 88. She was buried in Laurel Springs Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Surry County, North Carolina.

Sources

Firsthand knowledge of McCraw-22: Census records. Marriage records. Death certificate. Gravestone.
1910 United States Federal Census: Stewarts Creek Township, Surry County, North Carolina, SD 8, ED 143, Sheet 4, Line 83.
Paternal and Maternal relationships are both confirmed by an autosomal 23andMe test match between E. McCraw and Claude Council, her 2nd cousin 1x removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are Henry Cook and Martha Brinkley, the great grandparents of E. McCraw and great great grandparents of Claude Council. Predicted relationship from 23andMe: 2nd Cousin, based on sharing 98 cM (1.32% DNA shared) across 21 segments.
Paternal relationship is confirmed with a ________ test match between McCraw-22 and Jessup-528, fourth cousins, once removed.

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E. McCraw

She loved to sing the "old hymns". Her son would tell of a trick he liked to play on her when he was a boy. She would be singing one song as she worked in the kitchen and he would start singing a different song and she would just slide right into the song he was singing. He thought that was hilarious.

When we were kids, she never let us play in her barn and we ALWAYS wanted to play in that barn! I was afraid of the ticking clock in her house. I don't know why. It ended up in my mother's house where its ability to frighten me was greatly diminished. It now resides in the home of my niece where I am certain no one fears it at all.

Grandma Becky lived in our home briefly before she moved to a nursing facility. I was fairly young, so I don't remember much. I do recall playing a trick on her by showing her a smashed gumball and telling her it was a button and then eating it. She was doing some ironing at the time. She got very upset about it and I got into trouble.

I think I recall that strawberry pies were considered one of her culinary specialties.

posted 24 Feb 2015 by E. McCraw [thank E.]

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Rebecca Jane (Cook) Moore (1892 - 1980)

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