Journal of David
Moore
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| David Moore (1819-1901) |
I was born January 20, 1819 in the
townships of Eardley, County of Ottawa, Province
of Lower Canada. My
father Dudley Moore was born in the state of New York,
about three or four years before the Battle at Saratoga Springs, or about
the 8th of August, 1773. He died the
17th of March, I852.
My mother Mary Moulton was born in Winsor County,
State of Vermont,
and was something near or about a year younger than my father. They were
married in the State of Vermont and lived
there some time after, and then moved into Canada. They lived on the banks of
the St. Lawrence a year or so after which they moved north to the Ottawa River where they spent the remainder of their
days. My mother died in the town of Eardley, Lower Canada, October 10, 1845.
My brothers and
sisters names and ages are as follows:
·
Abigail Moore, Born Feb. 10, 1795,
died Aug. 6, 1865, 70 years of age.
·
Eli Moore, Born June 8, 1796, died
in March, 1870, 76 years of age
·
Sarah Moore, Born Oct. 14, I799.
·
Levi. Moore, Born July 4, 1802, died June 2, 1877.
·
Elias Moore, Born December 8, 1804,
died Aug. 28, 1885. 81 years 8 months.
·
Leonard Moore, Born August 27,
1807.
·
Hannah Moore, Born November 30,
1809, died Mar. 1835.
·
Olive Moore, Born Sept. 9, 1813,
died March 6, 1814.
·
Mahitabel Moore, Born February 3,
1815.
Leonard and
Mahitabel are both dead, the date of their death not known to me at present (1870).
Abigail married a man
by the name of Eliud Waller, and had no children.
Eli married
Elizabeth McCormick, who had the following children:
·
Mary (or Polly) Moore, Born February 20, 1825, died 1865.
·
Sarah (or Sally) Moore, Born Sept. 25, 1826.
·
Dudley Moore, Born Sept. 28, 1828,
died Jan 14, 1875.
·
Hannah Moore, Born Oct. 17, 1830.
·
Elizabeth Moore, Born April 28
1833.
·
William Moore, Born Jan 13, 1842.
·
Benjamin Eli Moore, Born May 10,
1846, died July 1872, of Small Pox in Ottawa
City, Canada,
and left a wife and three children.
·
There was another son of the above
family named John, the date of his birth I did not have. He was killed by the Indians in Wind River Valley, Dakota, June 26, 1868.
Levi married Phebe
Mulligan. They had the following family:
·
Abigail Moore, Born March 2, 1826.
·
Elias Moore, Born Aug. 8, 1827.
·
Joseph Moulton Moore, Born March
9, 1829.
·
Olive Moore, Died
·
Sarah Moore, Born Feb. 19, 1833.
·
Mary Moore, Born May 24, 1835.
·
Olive Moore, 2nd. Born
May 3, 1837, died Dec. 1, 1861.
·
John Charles Moore, Born April 17,
1841, died April 12, 1868.
My sister Sarah
was married to a man by the name of Freeborn Garretson Milks. She gave birth to
several children but as I have not the date of their births I can only give
some of their names.
·
Richard Milks, Born April 17,
1820.
·
Benjamin Milks, Born June 5, 1821.
·
Ambrose Milks, Born Jan. 21, 1823.
·
John Milks, Born April 25, 1824.
·
Lydia Milks, Born March 22, 1827.
·
David Milks, Born May 10, 1830.
·
Malissa Milks, Born March 29,
1831.
·
Mary Milks, Born April 4, 1832.
·
Charles Milks, Born Dec. 20, 1835.
·
Peter Milks, March 11, 1839.
·
Amy Milks, Born 1841.
Elias married
Isabel Koen. She had some ten or 12
children, but I left Canada
in a few years after they were married.
I am unable to give the names of their children at present.
Since writing the
above, the following has been found:
·
Charles Moore, Born Oct. 24, 1836.
·
James Moore, Born Dec 24, 1837.
·
Dudley Moore, Born June 10, 1839.
·
Mary Moore, Born Oct. 14, 1840.
·
John Koen Moore, Born April 17,
1842.
·
Edward Moore, Born Feb. 15, 1844.
·
Elias Moore, Born Feb. 1, 1846.
·
Henry Moore,
·
Archabel Moore,
·
Abbigail Moore,
·
Isabel Moore.
Leonard Moore died
when he-was about 24 or 25 years of age. He married a girl named Mary Gainford
something near two months before his death. She afterwards was married to a man
by the name of Bean and died in about six months after her marriage.
Hannah Moore, was
never married. She died with consumption in her 20th year. Olive and
Mahitabel died when they were small, one something near three years of age and
the other only about a year old.
