Le Roy Moore (1836 - 1888)

Born 28 Dec 1836 in Ballville, Sandusky, Ohio, United States

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Died 29 Jun 1888 at age 51 in Clyde, Sandusky, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Le Roy was born in 1836. He was the son of James Moore and Harriet Patterson. He married Mary Jane Dawley (1849-) 9 Nov 1869 in Sandusky county. He passed away in 1888.

"CAPTAIN LE ROY MOORE, late of Clyde, Ohio, was born in Ballville township, Sandusky county, Ohio, December 28, 1836, a son of James and Harriet (Patterson) Moore. From the time when he was out of the district school until near the outbreak of the Civil war he assisted his father in a flouring-mill near the village of Ballville, attended the Fremont city schools, and at Oberlin College two years. In the fall of i860 he went to school at Ann Arbor, Mich., and remained until the spring of 1861, when he came home intending to return to school and complete a full course of study. Touched with patriotic ardor to serve his country, he responded to Abraham Lincoln's call for troops, and on October 8, 1861, enlisted at Columbus, Ohio, as a recruiting officer, with the rank of second lieutenant, and speedily raised the requisite number of men to form Company F, Seventy-second Regiment, O. V. I., of which he became captain on the 4th of January, 1862. Two years later he veteranized at Memphis, Tenn., and took an active part in the battles of Pittsburg Landing, the siege of Corinth, the battle of Jackson and the siege of Vicksburg. After various other encounters with the enemy, the regiment was sent to Guntown, Miss., on what is known as the Sturgis raid, where he shared the fate of many other brave men in being taken prisoner. He was held by the Confederates at Macon, Ga., at Charleston and Columbia, S. C., and at Raleigh and Goldsboro, N. C. He was paroled for exchange and entered the Union lines at Wilmington, N. C, March 1, 1865. At one time he was detailed to run a mill for the purpose of grinding corn to supply Gen. Grant's army, cut off by Van Dorn, at Holly Springs. During three years and five months he served his country with distinction, and was honorably discharged at Annapolis, Md., March 5, 1865. On his return home his health was much impaired, but as soon as he was able to work he resumed his place in his father's mill, and afterward became one of the proprietors of the same.
"Capt. Le Roy Moore married, November 9, 1869, Miss Mary J. Dawley, daughter of Elisha and Sarah N. (Brush) Dawley, of Green Creek township, Sandusky county. In 1876 they moved to Pemberville, Wood county, where he went into milling on his own account. Being much afflicted with rheumatism, resulting from exposures during army life, and having been granted a soldier's pension, he gave up milling and retired to Clyde, Ohio, where he established his permanent residence. His death occurred June 29, 1888. He was buried with military honors in McPherson Cemetery. His family continued to reside in Clyde until 1894, when they removed to Fremont. The children of Capt. Le Roy and Mary J. Moore were, Blanche A., born September 20, 1870, now official stenographer of the court of common pleas, of Sandusky county, and James K., born February 22, 1878, now at home in Fremont, Ohio."^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Sandusky1896: p. 427-8.

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• U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 National Park Service Ancestry Record 1138 #576435
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• Commemorative biographical record of the counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co., 1896.