This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MOORE, HARRIS, BEARD/BAIRD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lhB.2ACI/591 Message Board Post: Any additional info anybody ??? The following are my research notes, do me a favor and read through them and be able to point out some courses of action. Sometimes I can get in too deep and can't see the forest for the trees. FACT: William was born June 24, 1832 in Ireland. NOTE: William was said to have immigrated with his brother Daniel to the U.S. from Ireland (interview with great grand daughter, Dorothy Moore Baize). They were said to have lost track of one another and never saw one another again. They were said to have walked to Tennessee (seems improbable, would have probably worked their way to Tennessee). William was Irish Catholic (all three children were baptized at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church) and therefore obviously not of substantial means. No other family members are mentioned in family tradition, besides Daniel. FACT: March 1846 marked the beginning of immigration for the "Irish Potatoe Famine" (William would be 13-14 years old at this time). QUERY: Were William and Daniel both famine immigrants, the only surviviors of their family? Or did the family have only enough resources to send two young sons, in the hopes that they could earn good wages and eventually aid other family members to immigrate to the States / survive in Ireland as well? FACT: 1851 marked the end of the "Famine Migration", more than 1 in 4 Irish citizens would die or immigrate by 1851. (William would be 18-19 years old at this time). QUERY: If William and Daniel had immigrated during the famine years, what did William do, and where was he at for the next twenty years. Surely he would have started a family. NOTE: The railroad through the Wells Creek valley was begun in the late 1850's and was completed only two days before the Civil War began. This railroad connected Memphis, Tn., with Louisville, Ky., so the Mississippi cotton could be shipped by rail directly to the weaving mills in the North-East. Building the railroad up the Wells Creek valley was dangerous work since many of the limestone bluffs had to be blasted. At Palmyra, along the river bank, a tunnel had to be dug through a rock bluff. Irish immigrants were the early railroad builders all over the U.S. They were skilled in blasting and would work under dangerous and difficult conditions. This was the era of "no Irish need apply" for industrial jobs in the east. An Irish work camp can be identified in the 1860 census (Friends of the Library booklet no. 7) in the now - Erin area. This work camp lasted for two or three years and a few hurriedly built stores were near the camp. This Irish camp was on Nichols' Land. Isaac Nicho! ls had recieved a grant for 1,000 acres in 1848 and where Erin is now, was nothing but two steep hills with a creek running through it before the railroad came. There was a settlement near Arlington (Scotch-Irish) and the road from Dover to Charlotte went throught the Arlington area, up Midway, before going over the hill and up Musterground to Charlotte. After the Civil War was over and the railroad was rebuilt, McKendree Hollister was one of the first buyers of Nichols "land-beside-the-railroad". {Volume XXII, In the Beginning, An Early History of Wells and Guices Creek, p. 29 - Friends of the Library, Houston County Public Library, Erin, Tennessee} QUERY: Were they recruited for the railroad work? QUERY: Were they recruited for the canal work? ACTION: Check the 1860 Stewart County, and Montgomery County, Tennessee Censuses for this work camp. FACT: April 12, 1861, Federal forces fire on Fort Sumter, commencing hostilities in the American Civil War. (William would be 29 years old). SUPPOSITION: William was of the age (29-33) to be a prime candidate, as most Irish were, for either army in the Civil War, but no family tradition of military service has survived the succeeding generations. This tells me that he would have migrated from around the waning months of the war (1864) to his marriage to Eliza in 1872. QUERY: Were they recruited in Ireland for service in the Civil War (as some were) ? FACT: April 8, 1865, General Lee surrenders to General Grant, ending major hostilities in the American Civil War (William would be 33 years old). ACTION: Check the 1870 Census of Tennessee. ACTION: Re-check passenger lists. FACT: Houston County is formed on January 21, 1871 from Stewart County, Humphreys County and Dickson County. FACT: William married Eliza Baird, Sept. 21, 1872 (William would be 40 years old), in Stewart County, Tennessee. FACT: Houston County had an Asiatic Cholera epidemic in 1873. FACT: 1st Child, Margaret Moore is born Aug. 20, 1873 at Bear Springs Furnace. Margaret would still be living by 1910 (her mother stated she had 3 children, all of which were alive at that time). Margaret is baptized Nov. 26, 1873 at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. QUERY: What happened to Margaret ? FACT: Local iron industry begins its decline in 1875 (William age 43). FACT: 2nd Child, Louise Ann (Lula) Moore is born Nov. 11, 1877 at LaGrange Iron Works (William age 45). Lula is not baptized until Feb. 16, 1881 at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. Younger brother Michael Fitzpatrick is baptized the same day. FACT: Houston County had a Yellow Fever epidemic in 1878 (William age 46). FACT: 3rd Child, Michael Fitzpatrick Moore is born Jan. 3, 1880 at LaGrange Iron Works (William age 47). Michael is not baptized until Feb. 16, 1881 at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. Older sister Lula, is baptized the same day. Official church records prior to 1884 survive, according to the note below. In any case, it does not seem William would have been able to make a trip to Clarksville for every mass. He must have desired that his children be baptized into the Catholic faith, waiting 4 months for Margaret, 4 years for Lula, and one year for Michael. FACT: 1880 Census William (age 45) and Eliza Moore (age 28) appear in the 1880 Census at Rough and Ready Furnace, 1st Civil District, Stewart County, Tennessee on June 23 with all three children. Williams occupation is that of a Dicker (??? illegible). His surrounding neighbors all seemed to be connected to the furnaces. ACTION: Find someone who can translate this occupation. NOTE: 1890 Cenus for every state were destroyed. However, tax lists for 1790 list several William Moores in Stewart and Montgomery Counties. FACT: June 30, 1895, 2nd child, Lula marries James Bryant in Dickson County. FACT: November 3, 1899, 3rd Child, Pat, married Fronie Harris in Dickson County, . FACT: 1900 Census June 6th and 7th, 2rd child Lula was with husband James and 4 children in Montgomery County. 3rd child Pat and his wife Fronie, along with their daughter Dassie, were living in the home of Fronies' maternal uncle, Jesse Harris, in Stewart County. This was June 29th. QUERY: Where were William and Eliza in the 1900 Census. SUPPOSITION: Eliza was next door to daughter Lula in the 1910 Census of Dickson County. Two children were married in Dickson County in 1895 and 1899. This leads me to believe they were probably in Dickson County, but it seems that while in Dickson County they stayed close to the Houston County line. ACTION: Re-check the 1900 Census of both Dickson and Houston Counties for William and Eliza. FACT: William dies on June 18, 1905, probably in Dickson County or Houston County. He is buried in the Batson-Schmittou Cemetery on the Dickson-Houston County Line. FACT: Williams widow Eliza Beard Moore, marries Joe Lovelady on May 24, 1909 in Houston County. FACT: 1910 Census Williams 2nd child Lula appears in the 1910 Census of Dickson County with her husband James and their 5 children. Just down the road are Eliza and Joe Lovelady. Eliza said she was 54 or 58 years old (barely legible), that this was her second marriage, and that she was the mother of 3 children, all three of which were still living. This was April 22, 1910. 3rd child, Fitz, and his wife Mary F. Moore, with 5 children, were in the Humphreys County Census, dated April 28. FACT: 1920 Census Williams 3rd child Lula appears in the 1920 Census of New Madrid County, Missouri (where she would eventually be buried at Mounds Cemetery in Lillbourn), with her husband James. In the same household is mother-in-law (of James), Eliza Lovelady, widow, age 63. This was enumerated on the 3rd and 5th of January. M. F. and Fronie Moore were in Erin, Houston County, with their 7 children. This was January 5. NOTE: IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH We will begin our tour at 714 Franklin Street, the Immaculate Conception Church. According to Goodspeed's HISTORIES OF TENNESSEE, page 802, this congregation dates from 1830 when the first Catholic priest by the name of Father Allemany, late Archbishop of California, visited this place. By 1839 both the town and the number of Catholic families were growing. According to Jean O'Connor's history of the church, Masses were said in private homes at that time. Since no official church records prior to 1884 survive, it is not known who the first families were but allegedly the names of Dunlavey and Boylan were among them. By December 3, 1844, the "Clarksville Chronicle" reported: "We are requested to say that the new Catholic Church of this town will be dedicated to the services of the Almighty God on Sunday the 8th of December, being the second Sunday in Advent at half past ten. The Rt. Rev. Dr. Miles, Bishop of Nashville will preform the ceremony. There will be a service on t! he first Sunday every month at half past ten in the morning and at four in the evening." The first church was located on Washington Street between Fourth and Fifth Streets, approximately across from Home Avenue.