Re: Nimrod Moore and Sarah 'Sally' Jones
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2/26/99 10:34:56 PM
Posted by Judy Moore-Waring on January 01, 1999 at 11:25:52:
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In Reply to: Re: Nimrod Moore and Sarah 'Sally' Jones posted by Karen
Appling-Hand on December 22, 1998 at 20:51:37:
Saw your posts and am almost certain we have a connection of some kind
because of all the coincidences (?). My Moore·Äôs start with Nimrod Moore &
Sally Jones (daughter of
Frederick Jones from VA). They were of some fame in Chattanooga, TN where
a main road is named in their honor. They, or at least Sally, came there
via Bledsoe & Hamilton
Counties.
One of their daughters (Sarah Jones Moore-Chitwood), her husband Russell
B. Chitwood, & at least 3 of her brothers left TN on Christmas Day 1850,
with 35 neighbors and relatives
and moved to Arkansas by river route. With them were Russell's brother
John, his wife and son; Russell's sister Mary "Polly"; Sarah's brother
Frederick Jones Moore. The travelers
camped by an Arkansas river and built a lean-to of quilts. Within two
years two more of Russell's brother's came to Johnson County, Ark: Dury L
Chitwood & Ezakiel Chitwood. Many
Citwoods and Moores settled in the towns of Ellsworth & Paris and in
Logan County.
My great-grandfather was also named Nimrod Moore (Jr.) and his son, my
grandfather was named Franklin Nimrod Moore, 1862-1903. Grandpa Franklin
(went by the name of
Nimrod) was born and raised in Paris, Logan County, Ark. After his death,
his wife Mary Ellender Pope-Moore remarried a man named Elliott and they
moved to Broken Bow, Okla.
around 1905. My father, one of the younger sons, lived there with them
just after the turn of the century. Then in 1907 he married his first
wife, Eunice Gertrude Smith. NOTICE THE
COMMON NAMES MOVING AROUND IN THE SAME AREA TOGETHER?
Oh, also, I noted that one of Richard Jones Moore·Äôs daughters (Nimrod &
Sally·Äôs granddaughter) was named Virginia Vanalie Moore (Vallie?) and
while I don·Äôt have her year of birth I
would place in sometime at turn of the century (a couple years pre or
post). That may be a place to start checking since we know the family was
in the area.