Nimrod Moore

• from http://home.comcast.net/~snmbanks/documents/moore2.html

Nimrod Moore was a "riverboat gambler" who moved to Hamilton Co. with his wife and 12 children in 1835, then continued his wanderings. Two of his sons were elders in the Silverdale Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Some in the family farmed in Brainerd, and the road nearby became known as Moore Road.

Nimrod Moore was born in Virginia in 1794 and he married Sarah Jones, who was born there in 1795. Her father was Frederick Jones, a Revolutionary War veteran. Her brother, Jeremiah H. Jones, was nother Hamilton Co. pioneer.

Nimrod Moore was "a lineal descendant of John Moore of Ireland." Nimrod was apparently a free spirited man who was a saddler and who speculated in land over a wide area. He took his family to Bledsoe Co., then to McMinnville before pushing on prior to the Indian removal to the vicinity of White Oak Mountain.

By the time of the 1840 census, Sarah Moore was listed as the head of the household. She handled several land purchases in 1842, buying 40 acres from Daniel Temple for @33.12 ½ and 40 acres from Leroy Standifer for $100. She paid William Towry #120 for 80 acres.

She was "an industrious woman, full of energy and practical sense and endowed with the wisdom of economy. She was able to rear her children in comfort and give them such education as the facilities of the county put within her reach."

Nimrod Moore was at Sweetwater, Texas, and far from his large family when he died in 1856. Sarah Jones died July 24, 1868. She is buried at the Moore Cemetery on Standifer Gap Road near Jenkins Road.

• From: Western Arkansas Biographies and Historical Memoirs

Nimrod and Sarah (Jones) Moore were natives of Virginia, the father born in 1794 and the mother about 1796. They were wedded in Tennessee, and there they reared a large family of children—seven sons and five daughters—six children now living: Mary (wife of Leroy Standifer), Malinda, R. J., Sarah (widow of R. B. Chitwood), O. P. and F.J. Moore of Ellsworth, Arkansas. Those deceased were named Harriet H., Edward H., Nimrod, Marion, Susan and Obediana. The father was a saddler by trade. Both parents died in Tennessee [SIC: Texas], the father in 1856 and the mother in 1868. She was a member of the Primitive Baptist Church.

Links

• http://www.carolyar.com/Moore.htm
• http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/11441374/person/1752686421

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• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Oct 27 2018, 15:52:16 UTC
• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Oct 27 2018, 16:06:52 UTC