James Franklin Moore (1850 - 1911)

Born 22 Sep 1850 in MS, Lauderdale Co., Bailey

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Died 29 Jul 1911 at age 60 in MS, Lauderdale Co., Bailey

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Biography

Biographical and Historical pg 462

James F. Moore was born in Lauderdale county. Miss., in September, 1850, and is a son of James and Caroline (Price) Moore, natives of North Carolina and Alabama respectively.

The father went from his native state to Alabama at the age of twenty- three years, and was married there at the age of twenty-eight years. For ten years he was engaged in agricultural pursuits, his work being that of overseer. In 1845 he removed with his family to Lauderdale county. Miss., and bought land, which he immediately began to place under cultivation. His efforts in this direction were rewarded with more than ordinary success.

When the war arose, he had accumulated a considerable amount of property, and owned fifteen slaves. He enlisted in the state militia, and was first lieutenant of his company. While the war was in progress he was employed by the Confederate government to tan hides, as he had a large tannery on his farm; much of the leather he had manufactured into boots and shoes, the tanyard, ginhouse, and thirty bales of cotton were burned by Sherman's army in 1864.

After the war he passed through the trials experienced by the whole Southern population in regaining a foothold in the business world. Mrs, Moore died in June, 1878, on the home plantation. She was a consistent member of the Baptist church.

Mr. Moore is living in the seventy-eighth year of his age, and is strong and active, and in full possession of his mental faculties. He has been a deacon in the Baptist church for thirty years. They reared a family of ten children:

William H. died in 1872; Thomas J. died in the army in 1861; Sallie, the wife of A. J. Cansler is deceased; Susan, wife of M. G. Terry, is not living; James F. is the next in order of birth; Martha died at the age of twenty- one years; Elizabeth died in infancy; Cornelius D. is unmarried; Margaret is the wife of C. W. Jones; Georgia is the wife of John T. Ethridge.

James remained at home until he was twenty-one years of age, and then took charge of his father's farm on his own account. He was married at the age of thirty years to Mary E. Miller, a daughter of Daniel and Mary (Pippin) Miller. Her mother was a native of Alabama, and her father was born in Pennsylvania. They had five children born to them:

Daniel I., Caroline, Thomas M., Virginia, Jane E.

Mr. Moore owns one hundred and ten acres of land, three miles from Meridian, and devotes his time to truck gardening and fruit culture. He also owns residence property in Meridian. He is public weigher of Meridian, his duties being to weigh and reweigh cotton.

He is the land inspector of the British American Loan company, and is considered one of the most progressive and energetic young business men in the county. He is well known throughout the surrounding country, and the family name is honored and respected wherever it is heard. Mr. Moore was employed as a clerk by A. Threefoot & Son one year, but he prefers outdoor work, and so stays on his farm in the summer, and spends the winter season in Meridian. He and his wife are members of the Baptist church, and he belongs to the Knights of Honor. His brother Cornelius and he are associated in business, and both are member of the Farmers' Alliance.

Sources

• 1860 Federal Census MS.Lauderdale Co.,

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