Jesse Moore and Martha J. Stevens

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Husband Jesse Moore ¹

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           Born: 28 Sep 1838 - ? Crawford Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Moore (1809-      ) 1 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Mumford (      -      ) 1 2

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       Marriage: 14 Nov 1864 3

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   Other Spouse: Belle Powell (      -      ) 3 - Dec 1885 3

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Wife Martha J. Stevens ³

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Children

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1 M Frank Moore ³

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2 F Edith Moore ³

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General Notes: Husband - Jesse Moore

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Until the outbreak of the Civil war his life was that of the farmer. In September, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company E, One Hundred and Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was sent to camp at Erie, Pennsylvania, to drill and prepare for the coming campaign. He was made a sergeant and in February, 1862, he and his command were stationed on post duty in Baltimore, Maryland, under General Dix, serving there until the end of May, when they were sent to the front. It so happened that the first active engagement in which the young sergeant took part was fought at Charlestown, Virginia, on the very spot where John Brown had been hung. Their next important battle was that of Cedar Mountain, Virginia, where Mr. Moore was wounded in the head and was left on the field for dead. The bullet, however, had not penetrated the skull, and after a period of unconsciousness he recovered sufficiently to join his comrades and bravely continued to fight with them while there was need. His company was next ordered back to Washing­ton, and on the 17th of September were participants in the battle of Antietam, Maryland. The following winter was passed in camp near Fairfax, Virginia, and the next important battle was the three days' fight at Chancellorsville, May, 1, 2, and 3, 1863, in which Mr. Moore acted in the capacity of second lieuten­ant, he having been commissioned as such in March, 1863. Then he was actively engaged in the series of encounters with the enemy which terminated in the celebrated battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and on the 29th of July, 1863, he was commissioned first lieutenant. In September following his com­mand was transferred to the Army of the Cumberland, to succor General Rosecrans, who was besieged at Chattanooga, Tennessee; October 29, at the battle of Wouhatchie, the brother of the lieutenant was killed. In the noted battle of Lookout Mountain our subject and his comrades did distinguished service, under the leadership of the famous “Fighting Joe” Hooker. A tablet was erected near the entrance to the hotel on the point of Lookout Mountain, in memory of the heroism of the gallant One Hundred and Eleventh Pennsylvania in this “battle above the clouds.”
In December, 1863, Lieutenant Moore's term of service expired, but he promptly re-enlisted as a veteran and was under the command of General Slocum in the Atlanta campaign of 1864. At the battle of Peach Tree Creek, July 20, a minie ball shattered his left arm at the elbow, and five times has am­putation been deemed necessary, the last operation being performed in 1875. After spending some time in the Chattanooga hospital he returned home for a brief period and in December, 1864, he reported for duty, and served in the military court at Nashville, Tennessee, until he was placed in charge of six companies of veteran reserve troops.
The war having been closed, Lieutenant Moore found himself face to face with another conflict, none the less serious: the battle of life, which he had to fight literally single-handed. During the winter of 1865 he pursued a com­mercial course at the Edinboro State Normal, and on the 1st of April, 1866, he embarked in business in Cochranton, as a boot and shoe merchant. In May, 1868, he was appointed postmaster of that place and continued to act as such until October, 1878, when he resigned his office and also sold his store. In the meantime he had met with success in his mercantile ventures, one of which was dealing in coal, which commodity he was the first to handle there to any extent. In June, 1877, the Cochranton Savings Bank was organized with a capital stock of twenty thousand dollars, and Mr. Moore was made its cashier. Later, the capital stock of the bank was increased to fifty thousand dollars, and under the national banking laws the institution was reorganized, becoming the First National Bank of Cochranton, Mr. Moore retaining his position as cashier. In innumerable ways he set an example as a man of public spirit, enterprise and progress: he was the first to have a stone sidewalk there, erected the first gothic slate-roofed dwelling, and was the first citizen there to put plate-glass windows in his storeroom front.
For more than twenty years Mr. Moore served as one of the assessors of Cochranton and acted in the office of burgess of the borough. For almost a quarter of a century he was a member of the school board, and for a score of years was a trustee of the United Presbyterian church. [HCC 1899, 687]

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General Notes: Wife - Martha J. Stevens

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from Mercer Co, PA

1 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 687.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1024.

3 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 689.