William Harvie Moore (1787 - 1866)

Born 27 Apr 1787 in Oglethorpe, Georgia, United States

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Died 24 Aug 1866 at age 79 in Coosa, Talladega, Alabama, United States

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Biography

Born in Athens Oglethrope, Georgia, USA on 27 Apr 1787 to John Moore and Martha Harvie. William Harvie married Mary Garland Marks and had 9 children. He passed away on 24 Aug 1866 in Alabama, USA.^[1] also source^[2] The daughter of Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks and John Marks, Mary Garland was born in the Broad River community, Wilkes County, Georgia. She was only three years old when her father died and shortly thereafter her mother and two brothers returned to “Locust Hill” in Albemarle County. Family stories indicate that she was a “great pet” of her oldest brother, Meriwether Lewis. Mary married Major William Harvie Moore (1787-1866) “a man of fortune” in 1808. (Gilmer, p. 84) He was the son of John Moore, Jr., and Mary Harvie Moore and the adopted son of his aunt, Mrs. Davenport. Mary Garland Marks and William Harvie Moore had twelve children and at some point, moved to Coosa County, Alabama, where they were living when they died.

Mary Garland Marks Moore’s granddaughter, Effie Moore Calhoun, wrote the following account in June, 1934:

“My grandmother was married at “Locust Hill” and went directly to her plantation in Georgia, which she inherited from her father, and began housekeeping in the house in which she was born. When her father died she was five [sic] years old and her father and his friend, Mr. John Moore, the father of William Moore, betrothed the two little children, boy and girl – Mary Garland Marks and William Moore – in the old English fashion because their plantations adjoined. My grandmother said she never thought of marrying any one else, and when my grandfather was twenty-one he came to Virginia to see her and they were married the next spring. They lived happily together for sixty years. They had twelve children, raised seven sons and two daughters; and I can say with pardonable pride that in whatever community they lived these seven sons were loved and respected by all, both rich and poor.” (Anderson, p. 185)

Mother of William: Martha Gaines Harvie was born on 24 Aug 1749 in , Albemarle, Virgnia. She died on 8 Jan 1818 in Ryland, Madison, Alabama, United States. Martha married John Moore.

Marriage

Husband: William Harvie Moore born 27 Apr 1787 died 24 Aug 1866^[3]

Wife: Mary Garland Marks born 27 Sep 1788 in Charlottesville, Virginia died Abt. 1864 in Bradford, Coosa, Alabama^[3]

Marriage Date: 1806^[3]

Children:

1. Lucy Jane Moore born 03 Aug 1809 in Georgia died 20 Nov 1855 m. Fleming Jordan born 1804 in Georgia married: Abt. 1834 Father: Fleming Jordan Mother: Martha Gaines Moore
2. John Moore 1811-1892
3. William Harvie Moore 1813-Unknown
4. Nicholas Moore 1817-Unknown
5. Meriwether Gaines Moore 1819-1890
6. George Fleming Moore 1822-1883
7. Frederick Moore 1824-Unknown
8. Mary Moore 1850-1934

He is last found in the 1860 census. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/william-harvie-moore_8340611
2. ↑ https://archive.org/details/marksbarnettfami00pett/page/n37/mode/2up
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} [http://www.cuddins.com/marks.html Marks Family History: William Harvie Moore]
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHDV-6X8 : 18 February 2021), W H Moore, 1860.

• Monticello.org: Lucy Marks bio: Mary Garland Marks