Does anyone connect to this family?


About 1850, David MOORE(abt.1812) and his family came to Preston County from
Rockingham County, VA and may have settled near Newburg.  The family
consisted of David MOORE his wife Abigail TUSINGER(abt.1812) and their sons
Isaac(1835) and Philip(1832).  Philip also had a wife and child, Lydia Ann
HUNT(1833) and their son Romeo Newton MOORE(1850).  By late 1860, Philip and
Lydia had three more children, David Morgan MOORE(1855), Mary A.
MOORE(1859), and Abbie MOORE(1860).  Philip was a farmer and he enlisted in
the army at Newburg on 21 June 1861.  He was a private in D company of the
3rd Virginia Infantry under Colonel Hughes.  The 3rd Infantry was part of
General Robert H. Milroy's Brigade and fought against General Thomas
"Stonewall" Jackson at Mcdowell, Virginia at the start of the Valley
Campaign.  Philip died of typhoid fever in 23 June 1862 at Petersburg, VA,
which is now in Grant County West Virginia.
Romeo Newton MOORE was a coal miner and he married Martha Jane MOON on 27
June 1878.  It's not known if they had any children.  Abbie MOORE married
Edgar S. LAREW(1855) in 1879 and had six children, Bertha B. LAREW(1880),
Nettie May LAREW(1884), Newton LAREW(1889), William Guy LAREW(1891), Posten
LAREW(1893), and Willard LAREW(1897).  Edgar died sometime between 1896 and
1900.  Mary A. MOORE never married.  David Morgan MOORE  married Josephine
SINCLAIR(1860) and had three children, Milton Edward MOORE(1881), Estella
MOORE(1884), and David M. MOORE(1890).  David was a coal miner and died of a
fever in 1890.
Milton Edward MOORE was born at Scotch Hill in Preston County West Virginia
(about 1 mile south of Newburg on Rt 92) 3 January 1881.  He married Bessie
POSTEN(1884) and they had five children, Harold M. MOORE(1906), Ruth Willard
MOORE(1912), Milton Edward MOORE(1918), Vernon MOORE(1920), and Madaline
MOORE.  Milton and Bessie spent most of their married life in Grafton West
Virginia and all of their children were born there.  Harold was found dead
on the streets of Grafton with a fractured skull on 16 September 1934.
Milton died of cirrhosis of the liver on 20 December 1936 in Grafton and was
buried at Bluemont Cemetery in Grafton.


Bob Moore
Braselton, GA

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