Wayne County Biographies



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Jonathan Moore

Jonathan Moore was born in North Carolina, July 6, 1806, a son of Josiah and Elizabeth (Wilson) Moore, also natives of North Carolina, of English descent. His great-grandparents were Truman and Leah (Hill) Moore, the latter a Welsh lady. His grandfather, Thomas Moore, was born Dec. 16, 1747, in North Carolina and married Isabelle Newby, also a native of North Carolina, born Feb. 3, 1755. He died in 1840, aged ninety-three years. He had a family of eight children — Josiah, born May 11, 1779; Isabelle, March 13, 1787; William; Jemima, died in North Carolina; Leah, born May 30, 1797; Jane, May 18, 1799; Marion, May 17, 1801; Thomas, July 3, 1803.

Our subject's parents moved to Ohio in 1812, and settled in Highland County, and in 1816 came to Wayne County, Ind., and located two miles southeast of Richmond, where they bought eighty acres of unimproved land. The father died in 1857 and the mother in 1855. They had a family of ten children — Nathan, died in North Carolina; Jonathan, our subject; Lydia, deceased, married Thomas Hollowell; Isabelle, now Mrs. William F. Gray, of Huntington County, Ind.; Anna, now Mrs. J. M. Wasson, of Richmond; Susan, of Richmond; Jesse, deceased; Elias, of Milton, Wayne Co., Ind., and two died in infancy.





Our subject was reared a farmer, but in 1830 came to Richmond, and began working at the shoe-maker's trade, following that occupation till 1869. He then engaged in the real estate business till 1876. He was married June 4, 1831, to Eliza, daughter of Archibald and Elizabeth Wasson, who died Jan. 21, 1881, in her seventieth year. They were the parents of eight children, but three now living. Elizabeth, Jesse W., Juliann, Elwood and Ellis died in infancy. Those living are — Joseph W., Jehiel F. and Charles H. They were reared in their native city. They all learned the shoemaker's trade, and Jehiel F. is still engaged in that business. Since 1872 Joseph W. and Charles H. have been in partnership in the coal and wood business and are now one of the leading firms in the city. Joseph W. married Priscilla M., daughter of John C. and Phoabe Brown, of Huntington, Ind. They have had three children, but one now living. Jehiel F. married Sarah T., daughter of John and Phoebe Tyler, of Madison County, Ind. They have two children. Charles H. married Laura E., daughter of Joseph and Rachel Gibson, of London County, Va. They have one child.

Source:
History of Wayne County, Indiana. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. 1884. Volume 2