sorry forgot...WILL MOORE photo address... http://www.angelfire.com/in3/louisrr/willm.htm On 23 Jun 2002 22:16:12 -0600, ngibson4@kc.rr.com said: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Moore > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/1MB.2ACI/2013 > > Message Board Post: > > We are trying to locate the name of our ggrandmother Moore. Our > ggrandfather was Samuel Patrick Moore. He was born in Kentucky around > Louisville. We have been totally unable to find his wife's name. Our > grandfather was William Bruce Moore and he was born in 1878 in > Louisville. There were other children although we never knew any of > them or anything about them. Their names were John, Patrick, Walter, > Allie and Suz. Our ggrandfather divorced his wife and married a much > younger woman. The story we are told is that she lived for a time with > our grandfather(Bruce) and our grandmother and then moved to Carthage, > Mo to live with or near her brother. We assume since none of the other > children were in Muskogee, Oklahoma where Bruce and his family and also > where Samuel lived, these children must have been in and around > Carthage. I know this is very little information to go on. We didn't > even know until about 3 yrs ago that Samuel was buried in an unmarked > grave in Muskogee, Oklahoma w! > here all our other relatives are buried. My 4 brothers and my sister > and I have just had a headstone made for his grave. The story is that > the family didn't put a headstone on his grave because he had divorced > his first wife. My grandfather paid for his funeral but would not pay > for a headstone. The family was very poor and probably ggrandmoher's > family in Carthage were also very poor from what we can gather. Any > help with this puzzle will be appreciated. > thanks. > > -- tippytnn@fastmail.fm -- http://fastmail.fm: send your email first class