Luella Mae (Bilby) Moore (1874 - 1949)

Born 10 Sep 1874 in Norwalk, Huron, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Wife of James Monroe Moore — married 1894 in Ohio, United States

Died 9 Apr 1949 at age 74 in Eugene, Lane, Oregon, United States

This profile is Genealogically Defined.

Biography

The daughter of John Bilby and his first wife, Frances (Hershey) Bilby, Luella Bilby was born in Norwalk Township, Ohio ^[1] in 1874. Her mother died in 1878 and Luella's father lived with his children in Norwalk Township in 1880.^[2]

Luella married James Monroe Moore, the son of John Harvey Moore, Jr. and Martha Ann Gearhart, marrying around 1894^{[citation needed]} and having one daughter together. They made their home in 1900 in Montgomery Township, Ohio, outside Columbus, where her husband worked as a rail yard brakeman.^[3] By 1920, they had migrated west to Eugene, Oregon, where her husband had taken work for a railroad company as a switchman.^[4] In 1930, residing in Eugene, her husband worked as a yard man for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.^[5][6]

Lula Moore passed away in Eugene, Oregon^{[citation needed]} at the age of 74 and is buried at West Lawn Memorial Park in Eugene.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X6JL-6SD : 8 March 2021), Luly Bilby, 1874.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M89Z-71G : 14 January 2022), Lula Bilby in household of John Bilby, Norwalk, Huron, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMZY-R1B : 13 January 2022), Lulu Moore in entry for James M Moore, 1900.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M48S-GMY : 3 February 2021), Luella Moore in entry for James Moore, 1920.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XC9L-JTQ : accessed 28 March 2022), Luella M Moore in household of James M Moore, Eugene, Lane, Oregon, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 49, sheet 2B, line 54, family 45, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1946; FHL microfilm 2,341,680.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRR1-LRZ : 6 February 2020), Lewella May Moore in household of James M Moore, Ward 3, Eugene, Eugene Election Precinct 4, Lane, Oregon, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 20-45, sheet 2B, line 68, family 50, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3368.
7. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178282507/luella-mae-moore: accessed 29 January 2024), memorial page for Luella Mae “Lula” Bilby Moore (10 Sep 1874–9 Apr 1949), Find a Grave Memorial ID 178282507, citing West Lawn Memorial Park, Eugene, Lane County, Oregon, USA; Maintained by Rebecca Boardman (contributor 47499110). Find A Grave: Memorial #178282507