Martha (Hughes) Moore (1818 - 1843)

Born 1818 in North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Davis Moore — married 8 Jan 1839 in Clay County, MO

Descendants

Died 1843 at about age 25 in Platte, Missouri, United States

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Biography

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Birth

Date: 1818

Place: North Carolina

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Death

Date: 1843

Place: Platte, Missouri

Age: 24-25

Cause: Exposure

Burial

Burial:

Place: Platte City Cemetery, Platte City, MO

Sources

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• Sourthern California Historical Society, volume VI Text:

  Gen-

  eral Kearny told me yesterday that he was going to the United

  States next summer. * * * I told him that if it was prob-

  able that my company was to be stationed there (in California)

  that I would not stay; I would resign. I told him I would

  not be separated from my children longer than the war con-

  tinued; that they were a greater consideration to me than a

  commission of any grade in the army could be. * * * Record ID Number: MH:S3 Page: http://www.archive.org/stream/quarterlysouthca06histuoft/quarterlysouthca06histuoft_djvu.txt Quality or Certainty of Data: 0 Data: Text:

  BY M. J. MOORE.

  (Son of Capt. B. D. Moore.)

  My father was born at Paris, Kentucky, September 10,

  1810. I know little of his boyhood. A few years after his

  father's death, about 1820, his mother removed to Shelby ville,

  Illinois, where lived her two sons by a former husband, Captain

  Matthew Duncan and the Jpseph Duncan who was afterward

  Governor of the State. He received the best education to be

  had in those days, and at 18 was appointed midshipman in the

  navy and assigned to duty on board the U. S. ship Erie, David

  Connorcommander. The Erie was soon afterward ordered on

  a long cruise, touching at Mediterranean ports, spending some

  time in the West Indies and in the Caribbean Sea. He was at

  home on leave in 1832, when the news came of the rising and

  threatened invasion of Black Hawk. Captain Duncan's com-

  pany, of which my father was made First Lieutenant by ex-

  change from the navy, was among the first to respond to the

  call of the Governor, and was soon floundering through the

  mud and swollen streams of the all-but-submerged country.

  The campaignwas a short one, and the old chief was worsted

  at the battle of Bad Axe.

  In 1833, "The U. S. Regiment of Dragoons" of which

  Henry Dodge was Colonel, S. W. Kearny, Lieutenant Colonel,

  and R. B. Mason, Major was organized by Congress, with

  Jefferson Davis as Adjutant, my father being First Lieuten-

  ant of Co. C. The regiment became the First Dragoons in

  '36, when the Second Regiment was raised. In '33 the five

  companies were sent to Fort Gibson, and in '34 on the "Paw-

  nee Expedition," in which one-fourth of the command died of

  fever. From '36 to '45 there were numerous Indian expedi-

  tions, without serioius losses, but much severe service, being

  interchanges between Forts Leavenworth, Gibson, Wayne and

  Des Moines. In 1839 my father was married to Martha, a

  daughter of Judge Matthew Hughes of the then recently nego-

  tiated Platte Purchase. My mother died in '43 from exposure

  the previous winter on the march from Fort Gibson to Leaven-

  worth. In May, 1845, General Kearny, with Companies A,

   

  SKETCH Of CAPTAIN BENJAMIN DAVIESS MOORE. II

  C, F, G and K, left Leavenworth on an expedition to the

  South Pass, in the Rocky Mountains. They reached Laramie

  Jjune 1 4th and South Pass July 6th, returning by Laramie

  and Bent's Fort to Fort Leavenworth August 24th, having

  made a march of 2000 miles in 97 days. The officers and men

  were complimented on the length of the march, rapidity of

  the movements and small losses, with "pride and pleasure."

  June 30, 1846, Colonel Kearny was promloted Brigadier Gen-

  eral and placed in command of the "Army of the West." In-

  cluding five companiesof Dragoons, there were about 1800

  men under his immediate command. After conquering New

  Mexico, he started from Santa Fe, September 26th, with the

  five companies of Dragoons forCaifornia. I insert here some

  extracts from a letter dated Santa Fe, N. M., September i6th,

  addressed to Judge Hughes the last that was received :

  "My Dear Father: I am sorry I did not know the Ex-

  press left so soon, that I might have written you a longer let-

  ter, but it leaves for the United States in one hour, so you

  must excuse a short one. * * * Thepeople so far seem

  to be well pleased with their new government; how long it

  will continue, time will show. All the Dragoons leave here

  the 25th with General Kearny for California. It not being

  practicable for horses, the General has directed the Quarter-

  master to purchase mules to mount the whole command.

  * * * "We have a march before us of 1300 or 1400miles,

  and almost a desert from the beginning to the end of the

  journey. From all accounts it is a very severe trip on ac-

  count of the scarcity of water, grass and game. Some say we

  will never get through, but I know better. The trip has been

  performied (though not by so large a party) and we can go

  where Mexicans or Indians can, and can stand as much fa-

  tigue, cold, hunger and thirst as they can. * * * Gen-

  eral Kearny told me yesterday that he was going to the United

  States next summer. * * * I told him that if it was prob-

  able that my company was to be stationed there (in California)

  that I would not stay; I would resign. I told him I would

  not be separated from my children longer than the war con-

  tinued; that they were a greater consideration to me than a

  commission of any grade in the army could be. * * *

  Affectionately,

  B. D. MOORE."