Edgar Allen Moore (1873 - 1945)

Born 7 Jan 1873 in Skullyville, LeFlore Co., Oklahoma

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Died 7 Jan 1945 at age 72 in Spiro, LeFlore Co., Oklahoma

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Birth

Birth:

Date: 7 JAN 1873

Place: Skullyville, LeFlore Co., Oklahoma^[2]

Death

Death:

Date: 7 JAN 1945

Place: Spiro, LeFlore Co., Oklahoma^[3]

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Note: EDGAR ALLEN MOORE January 07, 1897, son of LYMAN MOORE and FRANCES MCCLAIN. He was born January 07, 1873 In Skullyville, LeFlore Co., Oklahoma and died January 07, 1945 In Spiro, LeFlore Co., Oklahoma More About EDGAR ALLEN MOORE: Burial: Skullyville Cemetery, Skullyville, LeFlore Co., OK Nickname: Tamp

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Ainsworth, Jessie

Birth : ABT 1878 Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory

Gender: Female

Family:

Marriage: ABT 1897 in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory

Spouse:

Moore, Edgar Allen

Birth : 7 JAN 1873 Skullyville, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory

Gender: Male

Parents:

Father: Moore, Lyman

Mother: McClain, Frances Eugenia

Children:

Moore, Pauline

Moore, Alvin Custer

Moore, Lyman Southard

Moore, Edgar Ainsworth

Biography of Edgar Moore - Grady County, Oklahoma

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MOORE, EDGAR, INTERVIEW #7073

Field Worker's name: Gomer Gower

July 22 1937

BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES OF

Edgar Moore, Spiro, Okla.

July 20, 1937

Mr. Moore, the subject of this sketch, was born at Scullyville on

January 7th 1873, of parent, who, when quite young, were brought from

Alabama to the Indian Territory in compliance with the terms of the

treaty made with the Federal Government at Dancing Rabbit Creek council

grounds on September 27th, 1830, on the part of the Choctaw Indians

and the treaty made on March 24, 1832, on the part of the Creek Indians

at Washington, D. C.

He attended the community school at Scullyville until he reached the age

of fourteen years. Afterwards he was a pupil at Spencer Academy, near

Goodland, and then he was selected as one of a group of fifteen young

men to attend Roanoke College at Salem, Virginia, where after one year,

he was transferred to the Kemper Military Academy at Booneville, Missouri,

and where Judge D. C.. McCurtain, now in legal department of the Indian

Service at Washington, D. C.; Reford Bond, now Chairman of the State

Corporation Commission, and J. B. McAlester, attended at the same time.

This, indeed is a remarkable accomplishment when it is considered his

father, Lyman Moore, died when he was scarcely eight years of age,

and reflects honor and credit upon his mother who was, before her

marriage, a member of the Moncrief family, for her maternal solicitation

for the education of her children in the absence through death, of

her life mate. She was permitted by Divine Providence to live to

the ripe old age of eighty nine years, and was the mother of seven

children, Edgar A., Lyman R., Louis C., (now dead), Herbert H.,

Napoleon B., Gertrude (now Mrs. Bowman), and Lena (now Mrs. Smith).

He was a member of the first legislature and served as a member by

appointment of William H. Murray, who was then Speaker of the House,

of the Squirrel Rifle Brigade.

With the exception of the years 1903-1904 he has been a member, and

still is, of the Choctaw Council. A membership which he has enjoyed

since its institution and of which he feels justly proud.

The land holdings of the Moore family, before allotments were made

embraced the area now occupied by the city of Spiro. With rare

foresight the two brothers had a townsite platted on this land and

sold lots contingent upon the approval of the Townsite Commission.

The location of the townsite together with its provision for streets

of adequate width as shown by the plat was quickly approved by the

Townsite Commission, and the contingent sales were made bonafide and

in conformity with the townsite regulations. Thus the beautiful little

city of Spiro was born, and although it has not attained note as an

industrial centre, it has enjoyed a brisk agricultural trade due to

its location in an exceedingly rich farming and stockraising area.

Mr. Moore, aside from his activities in State and Tribal affairs, has

devoted his life to stockraising and overseeing of his vast farm interests.

His grandfather Moncrief was tragically killed and his body burned at

the time of a negro uprising with occurred near Scullyville about 1860

or 1861. This uprising was instigated by an overseer, in the employ of

Mr. Moncrief, who in reality was a northern sympathizer. After the

uprising, with its tragic result, the overseer took the slaves out of

the Choctaw Nation, disposed of them and never returned. In another

uprising which occurred about the same time, three brothers, Joseph,

Robert and Dave Hall, were brutally murdered by the slaved owned by

them, under the leadership of another faithless overseer employed by

the Hall family. However in this case, the traitorous overseer was

in turn killed by a surviving brother who was assisted by one of the

slaves who had heroically refused to join in the uprising.

During the turbulent years of the Civil War many of the families who

owned slaves and plantations in Scullyville County went as refugees

to Doaksville, and in some instances to Clarksville, Texas, taking the

slaves with them.

At the close of the Civil War, the negroes who had been scattered in

the confusing conditions attendant on the prosecution of the war, in

may instances returned to the homes of their former owners and insisted

on being cared for in the same manner as that in which they had been

cared for before their freedom.

It is significant that most, if not all, of the slaves in all the area

lying north of the Kiamichi Mountains and south of the Arkansas River

were owned by plantation owners having possessions in the Arkansas and

Poteau River bottoms, and that these slaves were owned in the main by

intermarried whites or mixed blood Indians, while the fullblood Indians

selected their homesites on the vast prairies where game was more

plentiful. Jonico Prairie, so called by reason of its first settler

being John Jonico, a fullblood Choctaw Indian, was noted for its

abundance of game and excellent fishing streams. The Poteau River is

its eastern boundary, while on its south side Brazil Creek traverses

it for several miles.

What a paradise for the nimrod and the angler. The present village of

Panama is located on its eastern side, while it extends westward into

Haskell County. Its north and south extent is approximately fifteen

miles. Small wonder the fullblood Choctaws saw in this a realization

of their dreams; a return to the life of their forefathers in which for

unnumbered centuries they had lived by the chase. One can mentally

picture their extreme happiness and contentment amid such surroundings,

and which they could still be enjoying had the whites not thrust their

unwelcome presence into their midst.

As a relic of those bygone days, Mr. Moore has in his possession a

treasure in the form of a letter which was written by his paternal

grandmother, dated at Micco Creek Nation, West of Arkansas to her son,

(his father) Lyman Moore, while he attended school at Cane Hill, Arkansas,

admonishing and pleading with him to sun evil companions while he was

thus unavoidably deprived of her personal care and direction. Time

has obliterated the date, however since he was born in 1837, it may

reasonably be presumed it was written somewhere between the years 1850

and 1855.

A perusal of this letter will set at ease all misgivings we may have

as to the intellectual attainments of the Indians of that period who

had been favored with educational advantages. It fairly breathes

maternal love; couched in language so beautiful and expressive that

one is led to believe that the communion of the Most High was very,

very near when it was written. The chirography, too, is excellent

and attractive, having a similarity to both the Old English Script

and the Spencerian types of handwriting. A copy of this letter may

possibly be in the archives of the Historical Society, as the original

was sent to it as historical matter and afterwards it was returned to

Mr. Moore, who doubtless receives much inspiration from the angelic

thoughts expressed by its author.

Mr. Moore, entering upon young manhood in the early nineties, has not

only personally experienced the epochal changes which have been brought

about since that period, but has been highly instrumental in directing

the course of those changes on through the years. Truly a type of

citizen of which Oklahoma, his native state, may well feel proud.

Submitted by Sandi Carter

-- MERGED NOTE ------------

[Carolyns Moncrief Family - 18092010.ged]

EDGAR ALLEN MOORE January 07, 1897, son of LYMAN MOORE and FRANCES MCCLAIN. He was born January 07, 1873 In Skullyville, LeFlore Co., Oklahoma and died January 07, 1945 In Spiro, LeFlore Co., Oklahom a More About EDGAR ALLEN MOORE: Burial: Skullyville Cemetery, Skullyville, LeFlore Co., OK Nickname: Tamp

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Ainsworth, Jessie

Birth : ABT 1878 Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory

Gender: Female

Family:

Marriage: ABT 1897 in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory

Spouse:

Moore, Edgar Allen

Birth : 7 JAN 1873 Skullyville, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory

Gender: Male

Parents:

Father: Moore, Lyman

Mother: McClain, Frances Eugenia

Children:

Moore, Pauline

Moore, Alvin Custer

Moore, Lyman Southard

Moore, Edgar Ainsworth

Biography of Edgar Moore - Grady County, Oklahoma

Submitted by: Sandi Carter SandKatC@@aol.com 6 Nov 1999

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MOORE, EDGAR, INTERVIEW #7073

Field Worker's name: Gomer Gower

July 22 1937

BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES OF

Edgar Moore, Spiro, Okla.

July 20, 1937

Mr. Moore, the subject of this sketch, was born at Scullyville on

January 7th 1873, of parent, who, when quite young, were brought from

Alabama to the Indian Territory in compliance with the terms of the

treaty made with the Federal Government at Dancing Rabbit Creek council

grounds on September 27th, 1830, on the part of the Choctaw Indians

and the treaty made on March 24, 1832, on the part of the Creek Indians

at Washington, D. C.

He attended the community school at Scullyville until he reached the age

of fourteen years. Afterwards he was a pupil at Spencer Academy, near

Goodland, and then he was selected as one of a group of fifteen young

men to attend Roanoke College at Salem, Virginia, where after one year,

he was transferred to the Kemper Military Academy at Booneville, Missouri,

and where Judge D. C.. McCurtain, now in legal department of the Indian

Service at Washington, D. C.; Reford Bond, now Chairman of the State

Corporation Commission, and J. B. McAlester, attended at the same time.

This, indeed is a remarkable accomplishment when it is considered his

father, Lyman Moore, died when he was scarcely eight years of age,

and reflects honor and credit upon his mother who was, before her

marriage, a member of the Moncrief family, for her maternal solicitation

for the education of her children in the absence through death, of

her life mate. She was permitted by Divine Providence to live to

the ripe old age of eighty nine years, and was the mother of seven

children, Edgar A., Lyman R., Louis C., (now dead), Herbert H.,

Napoleon B., Gertrude (now Mrs. Bowman), and Lena (now Mrs. Smith).

He was a member of the first legislature and served as a member by

appointment of William H. Murray, who was then Speaker of the House,

of the Squirrel Rifle Brigade.

With the exception of the years 1903-1904 he has been a member, and

still is, of the Choctaw Council. A membership which he has enjoyed

since its institution and of which he feels justly proud.

The land holdings of the Moore family, before allotments were made

embraced the area now occupied by the city of Spiro. With rare

foresight the two brothers had a townsite platted on this land and

sold lots contingent upon the approval of the Townsite Commission.

The location of the townsite together with its provision for streets

of adequate width as shown by the plat was quickly approved by the

Townsite Commission, and the contingent sales were made bonafide and

in conformity with the townsite regulations. Thus the beautiful little

city of Spiro was born, and although it has not attained note as an

industrial centre, it has enjoyed a brisk agricultural trade due to

its location in an exceedingly rich farming and stockraising area.

Mr. Moore, aside from his activities in State and Tribal affairs, has

devoted his life to stockraising and overseeing of his vast farm interests.

His grandfather Moncrief was tragically killed and his body burned at

the time of a negro uprising with occurred near Scullyville about 1860

or 1861. This uprising was instigated by an overseer, in the employ of

Mr. Moncrief, who in reality was a northern sympathizer. After the

uprising, with its tragic result, the overseer took the slaves out of

the Choctaw Nation, disposed of them and never returned. In another

uprising which occurred about the same time, three brothers, Joseph,

Robert and Dave Hall, were brutally murdered by the slaved owned by

them, under the leadership of another faithless overseer employed by

the Hall family. However in this case, the traitorous overseer was

in turn killed by a surviving brother who was assisted by one of the

slaves who had heroically refused to join in the uprising.

During the turbulent years of the Civil War many of the families who

owned slaves and plantations in Scullyville County went as refugees

to Doaksville, and in some instances to Clarksville, Texas, taking the

slaves with them.

At the close of the Civil War, the negroes who had been scattered in

the confusing conditions attendant on the prosecution of the war, in

may instances returned to the homes of their former owners and insisted

on being cared for in the same manner as that in which they had been

cared for before their freedom.

It is significant that most, if not all, of the slaves in all the area

lying north of the Kiamichi Mountains and south of the Arkansas River

were owned by plantation owners having possessions in the Arkansas and

Poteau River bottoms, and that these slaves were owned in the main by

intermarried whites or mixed blood Indians, while the fullblood Indians

selected their homesites on the vast prairies where game was more

plentiful. Jonico Prairie, so called by reason of its first settler

being John Jonico, a fullblood Choctaw Indian, was noted for its

abundance of game and excellent fishing streams. The Poteau River is

its eastern boundary, while on its south side Brazil Creek traverses

it for several miles.

What a paradise for the nimrod and the angler. The present village of

Panama is located on its eastern side, while it extends westward into

Haskell County. Its north and south extent is approximately fifteen

miles. Small wonder the fullblood Choctaws saw in this a realization

of their dreams; a return to the life of their forefathers in which for

unnumbered centuries they had lived by the chase. One can mentally

picture their extreme happiness and contentment amid such surroundings,

and which they could still be enjoying had the whites not thrust their

unwelcome presence into their midst.

As a relic of those bygone days, Mr. Moore has in his possession a

treasure in the form of a letter which was written by his paternal

grandmother, dated at Micco Creek Nation, West of Arkansas to her son,

(his father) Lyman Moore, while he attended school at Cane Hill, Arkansas,

admonishing and pleading with him to sun evil companions while he was

thus unavoidably deprived of her personal care and direction. Time

has obliterated the date, however since he was born in 1837, it may

reasonably be presumed it was written somewhere between the years 1850

and 1855.

A perusal of this letter will set at ease all misgivings we may have

as to the intellectual attainments of the Indians of that period who

had been favored with educational advantages. It fairly breathes

maternal love; couched in language so beautiful and expressive that

one is led to believe that the communion of the Most High was very,

very near when it was written. The chirography, too, is excellent

and attractive, having a similarity to both the Old English Script

and the Spencerian types of handwriting. A copy of this letter may

possibly be in the archives of the Historical Society, as the original

was sent to it as historical matter and afterwards it was returned to

Mr. Moore, who doubtless receives much inspiration from the angelic

thoughts expressed by its author.

Mr. Moore, entering upon young manhood in the early nineties, has not

only personally experienced the epochal changes which have been brought

about since that period, but has been highly instrumental in directing

the course of those changes on through the years. Truly a type of

citizen of which Oklahoma, his native state, may well feel proud.

Submitted by Sandi Carter

Marriage

Husband: Edgar Allen Moore

Child: Pauline Allen Moore

Child: Alvin Custer Moore

Child: Lyman Southard Moore

Child: Edgar Ainsworth Moore

Child: Tomelena Moore

Marriage:

Date: 1897

Place: Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, Oklahoma^[4]

Marriage:

Date: 7 JAN 1897

Place: Pocola,Choctaw Nation,Indian Territory

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