Source: Grundy Co., Missouri 1881 history book Mrs. Lauvisa B. Moore, p. 588-89 MRS. LAUVISA B. MOORE. Lauvisa Peery was born in Tazewell County, Virginia December 17, 1811 where she resided until she was about twenty-four years of age, when she came to Missouri with her father, who settled on a farm near Edinburg. She was educated in her native county, and taught the first school in Grundy County, then called Livingston County, in the summer of 1836. She taught in a small log house, with a floor of linden bark, weighted to hold it from warping. She taught one term that year. She was married to Milton L. Moore April 6,1837, and moved on a: farm about one and one-half miles north of Edinburg, where they lived about two years, when they sold out and bought a farm adjoining her father's farm, where she still lives. She joined the M. E. Church when she was about sixteen years of age, and still remains an active member. Her husband died leaving her with eight children. She taught school one term after she was married while her husband was in California. She has kept boarders, run her farm and educated her children. Her eldest daughter married Prof. John Morse Ordway, second president of the old Grand River College, now professor of chemistry in Boston, Massachusetts. Her second daughter married John D. Froman, a farmer, who has run Mrs. Moore's farm for several years. She is very hale looking, and intelligent, and it is a pleasure to sit and listen to her stories of old times, and what they did in the early settlement of this county. Her children were named as follows: Virginia, Nancy Jane, Sarah Amanda, a babe not named, Elbert, James Fickling, Luther Brown and George Henry. Sarah Amanda, Luther Brown and George Henry are living. Her husband, Milton L. Moore, was born in Tazewell County, Virginia, June 6. 1807, where he lived about twenty-three years He learned the bricklayer's trade, which he followed until he was married and some little after. His farm took most of his time and he gave up work at his trade. He came to Grundy County in the fall of 1836, and lived here until the gold fever broke out in California in the spring of 1850, when he thought he would try his fortune in that land of gold, and remained there until 1853 when he started for home, but only got as far as Lake Nicaragua, where he died. Page 559-60 THE FIRST MARRIAGE The first wedding in Madison township, and this, also, is believed to have been the first in Grundy County, was that of Milton L. Moore to Miss Louisa Peery, daughter of George Peery, all of Madison township. This event occurred April 6, 1837. At the time of the wedding the young couple took a short wedding tour, which was a common occurrence in those days. This tour, however, was cut short by the fact that the young husband's farm was only two miles from the old home, but they went on horseback, all the same. The outfit was regal for those days. To be sure the cabin was only partly floored, and the window-sash and glass hadn't arrived, nor had the Charter Oak cook stove come to hand, but such little inconveniences were not thought worth while to worry over, for the skillet was there, and, we are sorry to record, was cracked, and the bake-pan and some tin ware, such as cups and plates, and they went right to housekeeping. Their parlor, bedroom, sitting-room and kitchen was arranged so that they could be thrown all into one room, making their cabin a large and commodious building, inside, and as they generally in the start united all these rooms into one, it was mighty convenient, besides it looked more sociable, and there weren't so many rooms to sweep up. either. And this was the way the belle of Madison township went to housekeeping, and such, we are assured was her housekeeping outfit. The lady is alive and well today, a noble specimen of the women-pioneer, and an honor to the county. May she live long in the land with family and friends around her.