Ed Moore

Ancestors

Son of Orlo Harry Moore and Elva Gertrude (Street) Moore

Descendants

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Ed Moore served in the United States Army in World War II
Service started: 16 Nov 1945
Unit(s): 1278th Engineer Supply Team
Service ended: 21 April 1947

Birth: 14 SEP 1927

Place: Palmyra, Orford Township, Kent County, Ontario, Canada^[1]

Marriage

Wife: Dorothy Jean Stanley

They married secretly on 24 Sept 1949 in Auburn, Nebraska. ^[2]

Then they had the "family marriage" on 29 JAN 1950 in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. This is the anniversary date they celebrated.^[3]

Divorce: JUL 1978

Place: Johnson County, Kansas

Until he was in the military, Edwin went by the nickname "Ted" , the common nickname used in New England and Canada, until 1947. Growing up in the Midwest United States, people would think his real name was Theodore. He disliked that, so when he started a new chapter in his life, he began to use "Ed". Dorothy had known him as "Ted" and it would confuse the heck out of people who only knew him as "Ed" when she would refer to "Ted".

Ed's father Orlo was as an auditor and bookkeeper and they moved about the Midwest United States, finally settling in Topeka, Kansas about 1937, age 10.. (See census records in images.) Every August from 1930-1945 was spent in Kent County, Ontario, Canada on the farms of his grandfathers: William T. Street and John Moore. His parents divorced in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, after 1940 and before 1945. Ed completed his education in Topeka. He took a job at Montgomery Wards 1942-1945, working in the large appliance and furniture stockroom.

Ed enlisted in the United States Army, Corps of Engineers during WWII, October 1945^[4], and was just completing basic training on V-E day. Ed was assigned to the reconstruction of Europe. He talked very little about it. The few things that I can recall him saying: the towns were just piles of rubble that you could smell before you could see. The residents were living in what amounted to caves dug into the rubble. Nearly every male was put into internment camps. They would release the "regular" prisoners to go home to their families, telling them that if the prisoner got caught, they would say he had "escaped". They were not concerned about the prisoners not returning, as they would have been a burden on their families as there were food shortages and in many places a lack of good drinking water. Building water reservoirs was one of his unit's jobs. They used the prisoners to help clean up the cities and rebuild infrastructure. They discovered the men would hoard food to take to their families, which made them weak. They started providing food care packages for them to take to their families, as this was healthier for all involved. He was discharged April 1947. In an unlikely coincidence, he spent most of his time in Wurzburg, Germany, where his son-in-law, Harold Roy Hodges, US Army, was stationed 1977-1980.

Ed graduated from Kansas State University in 1951 with a degree in Civil Engineering and went to work for Black and Veatch of Kansas City, Missouri. He and Dorothy lived in the Plaza area, until they found out they were going to be parents. They bought land and build a house across the state line in Merriam, Johnson County, Kansas, because they believed the citizens of Kansas City did not adequately support their schools. Time would support their decision as the Shawnee Mission school district in Kansas never voted down a school levee in the next 20 plus years, while levees in Kansas City, Missouri, were defeated and tax abatements were granted further robbing that school system of the financial support it needed.

After Ed and Dorothy divorced in 1978, he moved to Ft. Collins, Colorado. Ft. Collins remained his official residence until his death 14 Feb 2014. Ed remarried to Stella Juanita Bishop, widow of Charles M. Danbury.

Y-DNA testing at Family Tree DNA confirms matches to two direct male descendants of Richard Morgan Moore. Both of the matches are through Richard James Moore. The difference between Edwin Richard Moore and Richard John Moore is 1 at 67 markers. The difference for Rick Moore is 2at 67 markers. Rick is also atDNA match at Family Tree DNA and there is a documented paper trail which matches the Y-DNA and atDNA tests. See later paragraph about Y-DNA matches to other Moore and Moher families from Cork and atDNA matches to other families with ties to the Methodists of Southern Cork County, Ireland.

Ed is a match at GEDmatch with Sharon Danbrook their MRCA couple is John Solomon Teetzel and Rachel (Van Till or Tyle) Teetzel Edwin has atDNA matches at FTDNA to other descendant of this couple who are not entered into wikitree.

See Moore matches for Ed's daughter, Joyce (Moore) Hodges matches numerous descendants of John and Rachel Teetzel at AncestryDNA. See the profile of John Solomon Teetzel.

Ed matches two siblings at Family Tree DNA where the in common ancestor couple is Timothy Street and Susannah (Lockwood) Street. This person is not entered into wikitree.

The Moore Y-DNA test for 2 cousins has been upgrade to the Big & 700. They have Big Y STR differences of 1 0f 615. They have been assigned their own block R-BY69841. It is down- stream from R-L513. At the 67-marker level the Moore cousins match a family from southern Cork who were Wesleyan Methodists, the faith of the minister who married Edwin's second great grandparents Jeremiah Moore and Martha Morgan in Cavan, Canada West (now Ontario, Canada) in 1839. The difference between Edwin and the southern Cork Moore family is 4 at 37 markers. A second male, first cousin of the first, tested and has a Big-Y STR difference is 4 of 573. Edwin is also an atDNA match to that Moore family, but it could be from other than the Moore line.

There are also Y-DNA matches to two Moher families who are Roman Catholic and from County Cork, distance of 3 at 67 markers.

There are numerous atDNA matches to a group of Methodist families along the south coast of County Cork from Schull to Clonakilty which associated and intermarried in Ireland and later Canada. The links have yet to be match with a paper trail. There are likely multiple in common ancestors, such that specific segments will need to be matched to establish atDNA relationships.

Sources

Biography where not sourced is from the memories of daughter, Joyce (Moore) Hodges.

1. ↑ Birth Certificate, see images
2. ↑ name="Security" Security Investigation Data, in images
3. ↑ Marriage License, see images
4. ↑ name= "Security"

• Paternal relationship is confirmed through Y-chromosome DNA test results on Family Tree DNA. Ed Moore, FTDNA kit # 122446, and his 2nd cousin 1x removed whose grandfather is Ernest Moore, FTDNA kit # 114548, match at a Genetic Distance of 2 on 67 markers, thereby confirming their direct paternal lines back to their most-recent common ancestor who is Richard Morgan Moore, the great grandfather of Ed Moore and grandfather of Ernest Moore, last wikitree entry. The tester is “Rick” 2nd great grandson of Richard Morgan Moore
• Paternal relationship is confirmed through Y-chromosome DNA test results on Family Tree DNA. Ed Moore, FTDNA kit # 122446, and his 2nd cousin whose father is Morely Moore, FTDNA kit # 902853, match at a Genetic Distance of 1 on 67 markers, thereby confirming their direct paternal lines back to their most-recent common ancestor who is Richard Morgan Moore, the great grandfather of Ed Moore . The tester is “Tim” great grandson of Richard Morgan Moore.
• Maternal relationship is confirmed by a GEDmatch test match between Edwin R. Moore GEDmatch T35988 and his third cousin Stewart Stevenson GEDmatch RB421894. Their most-recent common ancestors are their 2nd great grandparents Archibald Stewart and Jean or Jane Baird. Estimated number of generations to MRCA = 6.6, based on sharing 8.7 cM on chr 7. However, Shared cM project shows that 3rd cousins may not share any atDNA.