Ann Eliza Moore

(1831-1861)

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At a Glance

Ann Eliza Moore attended the Burwell School with her sister, Mary Frances Moore .

Story

Born on July 29, 1831, Ann Eliza Moore was the daughter of Mary Gray Moore and Stephen Moore. She had eight brothers and sisters. She and her sister Mary attended the Burwell School in 1850. During the Moore family’s residence in Hillsborough, their father operated a general store just off Churton Street, one door west of Kirkland’s Corner. He was a Whig in the 1840s and was active in community affairs serving on the Hillsborough Board of Commissioners, the Orange County Common School Board, and the board of the Hillsborough Female Academy. He supported the temperance movement and was a prominent member of the Orange County Bible Society.

Ann married William M. Carrigan on June 22, 1852, in Hillsborough. He was the son of Washington Adams Carrigan, a Hillsborough merchant originally from Georgia. In 1850 William was a student at the University of North Carolina and boarded at Nancy Hilliard’s boarding house in Chapel Hill. There is no record of his graduation.

Shortly after her marriage, Ann moved with her husband and their families to Hempstead County, Arkansas, where her husband became a planter. By 1860 he owned $5000 in real estate and personal property worth $16,700 including 13 slaves. Her younger sister Julia lived in their household.

Ann died on Oct. 1, 1861 and is buried in the Old Washington Cemetery in Washington, Hempstead County, Arkansas. The cause of her death is unknown. She had no children.

References:

Source Citation

Year: 1850; Census Place: Hillsborough, Orange, North Carolina; Roll: M432_639; Page: 173B; Image: 342

Source Information

Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Source Citation

Year: 1860; Census Place: Ozan, Hempstead, Arkansas; Roll: M653_42; Page: 703; Family History Library Film: 803042

Source Information

Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

Original data: 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.

Mary Claire Engstrom, comp., The Burwell Book of Students: Lives of Educated Woen in the Antebellum South (Hillsborough, NC: Historic Hillsborough Commission, 1979), 32.

Source Information

Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.

Biographical Data

Important Dates

Ann Eliza Moore was born on July 29, 1831, in North Carolina. She died on October 1, 1861, and was buried in Old Washington Cemetery.

Places of Residence

• Hillsborough, NC, between 1831 and 1852. Ann spent her childhood in Hillsborough from 1831 until sometime after she married in 1852.
• Hempstead County. Much of Ann's married life was spent in Hempstead County, Arkansas, where her husband and his family were large planters.

Schools Attended

• Burwell School, from 1850.

Relatives

• Parents: Stephen Moore, Jr (1801-1872) and Mary Gray.
• Spouse: William Michael Carrigan (1832-1868), married on June 22, 1852. Married in Orange County, NC.
• Siblings:
  • five brothers, Alexander Moore (b. 1833), William Moore, Stephen Moore (b. 1841), Henry Moore (b. 1843) and Richard Moore (1845-1862).
  • three sisters, Mary Frances Moore (b. 1837) , Mariah (Maria) Rebecca Moore (b. 1839) and Julia Moore (b. 1848).
• Uncle: William Moore.