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Note: PARENTS: The source for the birth, death, and burial dates and locations and the names of America's parents is her Missouri State Death Certificate no. 38318.
The birth place is listed as Lee County, Iowa on this record but as Missouri on census listings.
There is in my possession a PDF file of a handwritten autobiography dictated by Austin Moore in 1916, sent to me by one of his descendants, Greg Lambert. The typed transcription is copied here:
Austin Moore Biography
Biography dictated by Austin Moore Nov. 19, 1916, at his home in Sullivan County Mo. being his 77th birthday.
Austin Moore was born Nov 19, 1839 in Grason Co. West Va. near which town he visited with his father when a boy and attended negro sales there when buyers would come there from the South. Negros sold at auction to highest bidders. His father’s name was Amos Moore. His mother’s name was Rebecca Moore. His grand father’s name was Isaac Moore + lived in Grason Co. Va. about 10 years before the civil war.
The Moore family not believing in slavery moved to Lawrence Co State of Ohio a free state. Isaac Moore + wife was 65 or 70 years old when they moved to Ohio. Along with them moved the family of his son Amos Moore. The family of Amos Moore consisted of 9 children, 7 boys + 2 girls, namely as to age Isaac oldest, Stanford, Enoch, Jane, Martin, Austin, Alfred, William, + Lucinda. At this date there are living of the 9 children only two Wm Moore + Austin, all the rest having lived + died in Lawrence Co. Ohio.
Austin’s childhood days was spent in Grayson Co Va. being about 10 years old when he moved to Ohio. The family lived on a farm and products of farm were corn, wheat. Rye also grew flax from which home made linen was made. Flax was cut with a cradle by hand was bound in bundles + set up in field to decay awhile until the hard stems of the plant became brittle + easy to break. It was then taken to the thrashing floor where the seed was thrashed off with a frail. The flax was then broken by running through a flax break a rude machine which pounded + broke the stems up separating them from the fibrus break which was then combed spun + woven into clothing. Sheep were raised + wool spun to lace.
School facilities were not the best in Va. in those days no free schools but subscription schools costing parents usually $1.00 per month per child sent to school. Austin remembers attending one such school. In a log school house heated with a fire place in one end. Writing desk was made by placing one board or plank on top of pins driven in holes bored in log wall. Grason Co. was rather rough mountainous watered abundantly with numerous mountain springs. The timber consisted of poplar, white oak, red oak chestnut + pines on the mountains. Corn ground was plowed with single shovel plows no turning plows. Corn was dropped by hand + covered with a hoe. No one shucked corn from the field. Corn was snapped from the field and hauled + piled in long piles or ricks + then shucked from the rick. The shucks were saved + put in covered pens to be fed later to stock + there was the old time shuck pen. Often a Husking Bee was had where at the gathering parties of men, women, girls + boys would choose up as for spelling match + see which side could win by shucking to the center of the rick first. Such Bee’s were usually followed by music, games + old fashioned dancing.
On the journey from West Va. to Ohio Mr. Moore now remembers of playing behind the wagon so far that he got lost + being miss directed by some people whom he asked the way was considerably frightened + alarmed when his father returned on horseback in search of him carrying a flint lock musket for protection as the mountainous neighborhood through which they were passing was considered very bad people + with no sympathy for anti slave people. On reaching Ohio the families settled on farms. Conditions in Ohio were better than in West Va. They had free schools Agriculture interest were better developed. There were a few furnaces in the Co. for melting the abundantly iron ore. Ironton a nearby town was quite a city of various manufacturing interests in those days + furnished quite a good market for farm + truck patch products.
Mr. Moore attended free schools here. The school term being three months a year. He continued to live in Lawrence Co working on his father’s farm + other public works. In the mean time the civil war broke out and on the 25th day of Oct 1861 Mr. Moore enlisted in Co K of 5th Regiment of West Va. Infantry Volunteers + was honorably discharged from the service of the U.S. on the 6th day of Nov 1864 at Wheeling W. Va. by reason of expiration of terms of service Discharge signed by H.C. Peek 1st Lieut. 14 U.S. Inft M+D officer + James Washburn Col. 116th Ohio Vol Inft. Discharge recorded by recorder of Lawrence Co Ohio papers dated Nov 23 1864 + recorded Dec 14, 1864. Vol. 1 Page 14 by James A. Bartnam Recorder.
His Co first went in camp Saredo, West Va. later moved into action in the Shenandoah Valley under Captain Compston and General Phil. Sheridan + fought in engagements against Confederate generals Jackson and Early. Was in active service in two battles of Cedar Creek Winchester + numerous other fights skirmish line fights. Never was wounded but was shot through clothing several times. Once through cap under one arm + shoe sole shot in to.
Hardest fight was at Cedar Creek. On one occasion the color bearer was killed. Mr. Moore took the flag and carried it through the fight + continued to carry it until he was taken down with the fever in the year of 1863. Mr. Moore was present when Gen Sheridan arrived from Winchester on his famous ride of 20 miles. His horse was bay but was white with foam from the long run. The soldiers rallied to his command at once + held the ground + later drove Gen. Early’s army clear out of the Valley. On one occasion Mr. Moore’s Co. helped to tear up a piece of R.R. track Every man would get hold of a piece of track on one side + turn it clear over. Tear off rails heat them in pile of ties set on fire + place the heated rails in a forked tree or between two nearby trees + bend them wrap them clear around the tree. It was while turning a piece of track that Mr. Moore was caught and received injuries to his limbs from which he never recovered + which has caused him great pain + annoyance these later years of his life.
On receiving his discharge Mr. Moore went back to Ohio and learned the coopers trade + made barrels at millers part of the winter of 1864-5. The next spring or the spring of 65 Mr. Moore went to Ind. and worked for a Mr. Bell in Union County later to DeCater Co. + worked for J.L. Rumbarger in saw mill + timber + lumber business + remained there till 1869. The war was closed while he was working for Rumbarger. Labor prices were better after the war closed he receiving $1.50 per day for some time. Prior to then and before the war labor wages were low Mr. Moore having worked many months at $8.00 to $13.00 per month. In the summer of the year of 1869, Mr. Moore come to Mo. on train to Brookfield and walked to where some friend lived near Cora, Mo. + looking for land to buy located on the farm where he has since lived in Pleasant Hill Tw’p, Sullivan Co. Mo. Mr. Moore bought 100 acres at $4.12 per acre. He made nails and fenced farm there being no wire fencing at that time.
The sources for the reconstruction of the Austin Moore family are the 1880 and 1900 Sullivan County, Missouri census records.
CHILDREN
The source for the birth and death dates of Lydia Ann Moore Barclay is the headstone at the Mt. Zion cemetery. This is the source for the names and dates of her husband, William P Barclay. The 1920 census was consulted for the state of his birth.
The source of the burial date of Walter and Bertha is the Missouri State Death certificate for Walter Moore, which also records the maiden name of his mother as 'America Cassity', which I have transcribed into Cassity.
The source for the death date and burial of Nellie Moore is her Missouri State Death Certificate. She is recorded as Nellie Harris. She is found on the Milan, Sullivan County, Missouri 1900 and 1910 census married to Luther E Harris. Her mother is listed on this certificate as America Cassity.
The source for the death and burial information on William Moore is from his Missouri State Death Certificate. This lists the birthplace of his mother, America Cassity, as Lee County, Iowa.
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