By request Source: Grundy County Missouri History Book 1881 John Moore, p. 513-14 JOHN MOORE Fourth son of Levi and Rachel Moore, nee Haines was born in Chariton County, Missouri, September 14th, 1822, and with his parents moved to Randolph County, from there to Daviess County, and when he was quite small settled about two miles north of where Gallatin now stands, Richmond, in Bay County, being the nearest town. They moved from there to where Trenton is now located in 1833 or 1834. His father was the first white man who raised a crop in Grundy County—on ground near the present site of the railroad machine-shops at Trenton, where the first corn planted was destroyed by pigeons, which were so numerous that the branches on the trees where they roosted broke off. Deer, wild turkeys and honey were very plentiful, which, with hominy, was their principal food. His pants were made of buckskin, his cap of coonskin, and lie never saw a pair of boots or shoes until he was about twelve years of age, wearing, in winter, moccasins made of cowhide. The county was surveyed by Mr. Applegate, in 1836, and he carried the surveyor's provisions. When Trenton was laid off he moved to where Mr. Val. Briegle now lives and while living at this farm the Indians often came to trade, and buy horses, giving their notes payable when the government paid them, with the old chief Tuckwash as their security. This chief frequently went to Des Moines in behalf the settlers to collect these notes which the Indians always paid promptly. Mr. Moore learned their language, while dealing with them. In August 1817 Mr. Moore joined the Indian battalion for the Mexican War; was mustered in at Leavenworth and marched to Santa Fe, under General Price was not inside of a house for thirteen months; took part in two engagements with the Indians in Mexico. When peace was declared he returned to Independence, Missouri, where the battalion was disbanded in November 1848. On May 18th, 1849, Mr. Moore married Miss Emmeline Wasson. In the spring of 1850 he started over the plains for California, and meeting a company from Illinois at Council Bluffs, the two parties united and elected him captain, and they journeyed on together, taking five months to reach Hangtown, California. Be went to the China diggings seventy-five miles east of Stockton, in October, and in the following April, at the request of his comrades, started back home to bring their families. He was seventy-seven days on the way from San Francisco to Panama, crossed the. Isthmus on foot and took a steamboat, via Havana, for New Orleans. Soon after his arrival in Grundy County he received a letter from his friends in California stating that they would be home in the fall, so he did not return. He joined the militia, in 1862, as second lieutenant of company A, and was stationed at Chillicothe. In May, 1863, he joined the provisional militia and .was elected first lieutenant, and participated in one skirmish with the bushwhackers under Anderson.. The militia disbanded in the fall, when captain G. A. Spickard and he made up a company, and went to St. Joseph, at their own expense. On arrival they found the regiment nearly full and he, with others returned home. Mrs. Moore died in March 1861, and Mr. Moore married Miss Mary Flowers in July, 1862. He has seven children living, and two dead. The names of those by his first wife are Nova Zembia Sublet, Bernettie, Selissabel, Cordelia Ellen, and Mary Emmeline; and by his second wife, Fortress Monroe and- John Mayland