Thomas Moore, Sr. - Crack in a Brick Wall? Part II of III (Because this posting is lengthy, it is being posted in three parts. See also Parts I and III.) During the period Thomas Moore, Sr. is found on the PPTLs for the SW tax district of Rockbridge County (1810-1828), he did not appear on any of the Rockbridge land tax records, and thus apparently never owned any real property in that county. However, a mortgage of crops by Thomas Moore Sr. is recorded in Rockbridge County about 1822, from which fact a fair inference can be drawn that he was a tenant farmer. Thomas Moore, Sr.'s known children roughly in the order of their birth were John (b. ca. 1787), Thomas Jr. (b. ca. 1790), Nancy (b. ca.. 1792), Samuel (b. ca. 1795), Lucy (b. ca. 1798) and Margaret (b. before 1800). Two persons attributed to be children of Thomas Sr., namely, James Madison Moore (born 1812) and Hannah Moore (born between 1810-1820) were not the children of Thomas, Sr. at all, but rather were two of his grandchildren, children of his son Thomas Moore, Jr. The fact that James Madison and Hannah were children of Thomas Jr. is fully disclosed in the probate record for Thomas Moore, Jr. in Franklin County, Indiana, where he died intestate March 27, 1855. Four of Thomas Sr.'s six known children were married in Rockbridge County, namely, Thomas Jr. to Mary Crouse on August 16, 1810; Nancy to Henry Armentrout on October 28, 1819; Samuel to Ann Hayslett on August 31, 1820; and Margaret to James Black on March 3, 1818. His daughter Lucy apparently never married, as she died in the Rockbridge County Poor House on June 1, 1856 under the name "Lucy Moore." The marriage of Thomas Sr.'s eldest son, John, was a different story. He married Catherine "Kitty" Siders, daughter of Solomon Siders, Sr. on January 14, 1808, not in Rockbridge but in Frederick County, VA. This fact certainly raises the question, how and why was it that son John and Kitty Siders happen to be in Frederick County to be married there in January 1808? The most obvious answer to this simple question was a significant clue to the riddle of where Thomas Moore, Sr. had come from before coming to Rockbridge about 1809-1810: Just maybe son John and Kitty Siders were married in Frederick County because that is where they lived! Not a startling conclusion but one which I have not seen previously explored in published or posted materials. Go to part III for the continuation of this posting in three parts. William R. Moore