Bright Gilstrap Moore (1853 - 1934)

Born 28 Dec 1853 in Gilmer County, Georgia, USA

Ancestors

Son of Hugh Moore and Margaret (Gilstrap) Moore

Husband of Sarah Elizabeth (Gravely) Moore — married about 1885 in Pickens, South Carolina, United States [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 30 Sep 1934 at age 80 in Alpharetta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA

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Biography

Bright Gilstrap Moore was born 28 Dec 1858 ^[1] to Hugh and Margaret Gilstrap Moore. He was born in Gilmer County, Georgia, the second son in the family of seven. The 1860 census ^[2] shows Bright, age 7, living near his grandmother Mary Glenn Moore and Uncle William Moore, who was a farmer. Within a couple of years the Civil War had come to Georgia, and many men from Gilmer County enlisted in the Confederacy, including Bright's father, Hugh Moore.

According to the 1860 census, Bright's parents were farmers, but did not own any land. His father was one of the first to go off to war so Margaret returned to Pickens County, South Carolina where her family lived. She lived on the 50 acre farm her father had given her on Little Eastatoe Creek. Margaret raised her seven children by herself because Hugh never returned from the war. He was killed in action on 7 May 1864 at the Wilderness Campaign in Virginia. ^[3]

Bright can be found in his mother's household on the 1870 ^[4] and 1880 ^[5] census. They are living in Nine Times, Eastatoe, Pickens County, South Carolina. It 1885 it is here where he met and married Sarah Elizabeth Gravelly. They lived only a few miles from each other, and her father had also died in the war. ^[6] Shortly after their marriage they moved to Alpharetta, Milton County, Georgia ^[7]along with his mother and four sisters.

On the 1900 census ^[8] Bright and Sarah have six living children and are renting a farm. They likely lived at the end of what was then Kimball Bridge Road, later Rockmill Rd. ^[9]

Bright's oldest sons can be found on the WWI Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, ^[10] but thankfully none of them had to go to war. Instead they married local girls, became farmers, and started their own families. My father, Hughey, was the youngest of their seven children, born 16 December 1906. He and his brother, Grady, lived with his parents until after their death's

Bright G. Moore died on September 30, 1934^[11] while living at the farm on Kimball Bridge Road in Alpharetta, Georgia. He was buried in the family cemetery plot at Rest Haven Cemetery. ^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ Alpharetta, Fulton Co., Georgia, "Death Certificate 23704, Sep 30, 1934. Bright Gilstrap Moore; Georgia Department of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia
2. ↑ 1860 U. S. Census, Gilmer County, Georgia, page 41, (handwritten) Dwelling Number: 303, 290, online, Ancestry.com, (https://www.ancestry.com: accessed 17 Feb 2022) ,Roll: M653_124; Page: 41; Image: 42.
3. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 11 March 2022), memorial page for Pvt Hugh “Hughy” Moore (6 Jan 1822–7 May 1864), Find A Grave: Memorial #11419666, citing Confederate Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg City, Virginia, USA.
4. ↑ http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1870usfedcen&h=4315631&ti=0&indiv=try
5. ↑ http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1880usfedcen&h=42530695&ti=0&indiv=try
6. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 11 March 2022), memorial page for PVT John Gravely Jr. (24 Dec 1823–24 Dec 1862), Find A Grave: Memorial #72176062, citing Gravely Family Cemetery, Sunset, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA.
7. ↑ https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/TestApps/id/183929
8. ↑ 1900 U.S. census, Milton County, Georgia, population schedule, Alpharetta, Enumeration District 107, p. 3 (penned), dwelling 57, family 57, Moore, Bright G: digital images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed28 Feb 2022); from National Archives microfilm publication T623 212; Page: 3B;
9. ↑ Bright's youngest son told me they lived there three different times during his life and they farmed the fertile land that near Big Creek that ran behind their house.
10. ↑ http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=ww1draft&h=15501929&ti=0&indiv=try
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1} Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 28 February 2022), memorial page for Bright Gilstrap “B. G.” Moore (9 Dec 1853–30 Sep 1934), Find A Grave: Memorial #37800471, citing Rest Haven Cemetery, Alpharetta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA.

• Paternal relationship is confirmed through Y-chromosome DNA test results on Family Tree DNA. Tommy Moore, FTDNA kit # 130051, and half his 3rd cousin 2x removed, Robert N. Moore, FTDNA kit # 311553, match at a Genetic Distance of 2 on 111 markers, thereby confirming their direct paternal lines back to their most-recent common ancestor who is Burt Moore, the 2x great grandfather of Tommy Moore and 4x great grandfather of Robert N. Moore.

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed May 10, 2015), "Record of Burt Moore", Ancestor # A079288.