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Note: Samual Asbury Moore In the old Moore House at 304 South Court Street, Circleville, Pickaway,
Ohio there is a portrait on the dining room wall on the back of which is
written the following: "Col. Samuel Asbury Moore, abolitionist. 13th
child of Wn. Moore, Fermanaugh, Ireland." The missing five children
could fit in the gap between the second child of 1795 and the third
child of 1803.
Family tradition has it that Col. Moore conducted an "underground
railroad" for slaves on the run from their southern plantation masters.
The railroad went from the Moore House to the north part of town,
surfacing at a lake half a mile away. Remnants of this underground
passage could still be seen as of 1960, as the author of this statement
(Geoff Pace and confirmed by Howard B. Moore II) vividly remembers that
he and Junior Clifton had many wonderful hours of play in that old
basement.
Source: "Pickaway Quarterly", Summer 1970 p 17. Also, "History of
Pickaway County, Ohio and Representative Citizens", 1906.
Other marriages:
14 Jan 1840 Harriet Melissa Short
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