"Ellie" Moore Death Certificate

Here is a recent find, the death certificate of my great-grandfather Josh Moore's stepmother, Elizabeth "Ellie" Moore, from Bremen, Georgia, with date of death of 10 May, 1925. Cause of death was pneumonia. She was not a blood relation, but this is still a nicely informative bit of family history.

Ellie was the second wife of Rev. Thomas Moore. Per her memorial page at Find A Grave, she had been previously married to P.K. MacKenzie*, an immigrant from Scotland, and by him had one daughter, Priestly MacKenzie (1865-1935), who married local physician Dr. Marshall H. Stephens. Through her marriage to Reverend Moore she was the mother of William Claude Moore (1874-1946) and Leila Moore (1879-1898). William married a woman named Toka W., while Leila married Oscar Bullard. At this writing there seems to be no evidence that either of them had children of their own.

*Note and trivia: Kinney tradition holds that the family is a sept of Clan MacKenzie, but this has recently come under dispute. A copy of the Kinney family history that has been a major source of information for those reseraching the descendants of William Kinney from Scotland who traditionally fired the first shot at Guilford Courthouse during the Revolutionary War, is said to have been bound in a copy of the Clan MacKenzie tartan. It would be interestng to know what relation, if any, Mr. MacKenzie might have been to the ancestor of the woman who eventually married Ellie's stepson, Josh Moore.

Green N. Moore and Family

As a follow-up to the previous post about my great-grandfather, Marion Joshua Moore, here's a picture of his brother, Green N. Moore (March 1868 - 28 Dec., 1955) and his wife Minnie W. Kinney Moore (born 1870), with their daughters Lemma (born 1888) and Sarah Vera (1893 - 1910). They also had two sons,  Marion Moore, born 1906, the same year as my grandfather, and Andrew Jackson "Jack" Moore, born in 1908. Minnie was the daughter of Marion Lafayette Kinney, James A. Kinney's brother, and thus was cousin to my great-grandmother, Ada Eugenia Kinney. She and Green were married on 13 January, 1887. As mentioned in the previous post, Uncle Green and Aunt Minnie took in my grandfather and his sisters and raised them after their parents had died in the years 1912 and 1914.

Conlan abú

In this blog I shall relate the history and genealogy of the many families from which I descend, - Moore, Sheffield, Taylor, Stephens, Kinney, Wages, Hoge, Waters, Cunningham, Huckaba, Stinson, Gibson, Bates, Wingfield, Howe, Cromwell, Scrope, Seymour, Howard, Boleyn, and so on. I also hope to intercat with others researching these families. The blog's name derives from the meaning of the Irish name Mordahr, "stately and proud" from which Moore is believed to derive. The title of this post, conlan abú, - "heroes forever," is the Moore family motto.