This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BYNUM, CROOKE, DILLON, GASTINEAU, MOORE, MCCRAY, SLINKARD Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4528 Message Board Post: THE BLOOMFIELD DEMOCRAT, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Friday, November 23, 1917, Volume LVI, Number 96, Page 4, Columns 4 & 5, “OBITUARY--MOORE.” [Transcribed 6 May 2002 from Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library’s IHS Microfilm Records.] John D. MOORE, son of James and Mary MOORE, was born in Daviess County, April 9th, 1841, and departed this life November 12, 1917. He was married to Catherine SLINKARD, April 12, 1866. To this union were born ten children, three of whom preceded the father in death—two in infancy, and Marion, who died May 28, 1913. Surviving him re two brothers—William H. MOORE, of Newberry, Jabe MOORE, and one sister, Mrs. Mollie MCCRAY, both of Elizabeth, Harrison County, Indiana. Also, twenty-three grandchildren—seventeen girls and six boys—and two great-grandchildren. He and his wife started life in an humble way at farming, and reared a family of which they were justly proud. During the prime of his life Mr. MOORE was active in farming and gravel road contracting, and served as township trustee for two terms. In late life he purchased the Andrew SLINKARD farm, of about four hundred acres, and for a number of years the children, except Henry W. MOORE, of Terre Haute, and Mrs. Daisy BYNUM have lived in sight of home. Save five years ago Mr. MOORE had a stroke of paralysis from which he never recuperated and during his declining months he was a great care to his wife and children, but had every care and attention that could be given. Of late years he has been retired. He at all times enjoyed having his children and grandchildren about him. Even up to the very last he betrayed a keen interest in his grandchildren. He loved to make other happy, and in all his life was never known to intentionally inflict a wound on others’ feelings. Mr. MOORE never allied himself with any church, yet his life was one of kindness and gentle deeds, and he approached death unfalteringly, without doubt and without fears, “like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams.” The great family he has left will miss him. Those who survive him are his wife, four sons—Will, Henry, Charles and Cleveland, and three daughters—Mrs. John CROOKE, Mrs. Ethan GASTINEAU, Mrs. Vernon BYNUM and Mrs. Katie MOORE, widow of Marion, deceased. Elder J. A. SPENCER, former pastor of the Christian church at Bloomfield, conducted the funeral service at the farm residence of the deceased. There were a large number of people present from Greene and Daviess counties. The body was interred in the Newberry Cemetery, west of town. — Link to the Obituary of his son, Henry W. MOORE: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties.greene&m=3884 — NOTES—RLJ: (1) DEATH RECORDS OF GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, Health Department, East Spring Street, Bloomfield, Indiana, Book R-16, Page 106, #15: John Dillon MOORE, b. 9 Apr 1841 in Indiana, d. 18 Nov 1917 in Greene County, age 76, husband of Katherine MOORE, father—James MOORE, b. unknown, mother— _______ DILLON, b. Ohio. (2) Link to marriage record of parents, James MOORE and Polly Ann DILLON: http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro (3) CEMETERIES OF EASTERN GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, Cass Township, Newberry Cemetery, Page 50, Column 2: MOORE, John, 1841—18 Nov 1917; MOORE, Catherine, w/o John, d/o Henry & Margaret SLINKARD, 1846—Jan 1930.