and Ann Eliza Moore .
(1801-1872)
« return to database listStephen Moore, Jr was the father of Burwell Students Mary Frances Moore and Ann Eliza Moore .
Stephen Moore [Jr.], born in 1801 and the son of Stephen Moore, a Hillsborough merchant, married Mary Gray of Randolph County, NC, in 1830. In 1831 he was operating a general store in Hillsborough with his uncle, William Cain, or his brother, William Moore. In 1832 he opened S & W Moore one door west of Kirkland’s Corner. He dissolved the partnership in 1836 and ran the business as the sole proprietor before declaring bankruptcy in 1842.
In the 1840 he is listed as owning 9 slaves.
In 1846 he formed a partnership with E. M. Holt and William A. Caragin [Carrigan] and opened a general store on the same site. He was living with his wife, Mary, his nine children, his brother, William, and an Episcopal clergyman from New York in 1850. At that time he owned $3000 in real estate and eight slaves.
During his residence in Hillsborough, he was active in community affairs. He served on the Hillsborough Board of Commissioners, on the Orange County Common School Board, and on the board of the Hillsborough Female Academy. He as a member of the Washington Temperance Society of Orange County and a director of the Orange County Bible Society. He was also active in local Whig politics in the early 1840s.
In 1852 he decided to move to the southwest and put his Hillsborough property up for sale. He had placed his affairs in the hands of George Laws by February, 1853.
By 1860 he was living with his son Richard and seven-year-old Jessee Moore, (relationship unclear), in Ozan, Hempstead County, Arkansas and working as a farmer. He owned $37,320 in real estate and $7675 in personal property including twenty-six slaves. Ann, his eldest daughter had married in 1852. She and her husband and his family had also moved to Hempstead County, Arkansas, and Julia was living with her. Mariah (Maria) had married in 1858 in Mound Prairie, Hempstead County, Arkansas. It is not clear where the rest of the Moore family was.
In 1867, after the Civil War, he was brought before the Freedman’s Bureau in Arkansas in a case involving the return of a young woman, who had been indentured (bound out) in 1864.
He was not listed in the 1870 census. He listed himself as a widower, was living alone, and claimed to be suffering from a nervous debility in 1880. He died on Sept. 17, 1882, and was buried in the Old Washington Cemetery in Washington, Hempstead County, Arkansas.
References:
Source Information
Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Index to Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
Original data: State of North Carolina. An Index to Marriage Bonds Filed in the North Carolina State Archives. Raleigh, NC, USA: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1977.
Source Citation
Year: 1840; Census Place: Southern Division, Orange, North Carolina; Page: 213
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1840 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Original data: Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. (NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Stephen Moore Papers, #2205, Southern Historical Collection, UNC, Chapel Hill. Introduction to Subseries 4.2. Vol. 1831-1867
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.
Ancestry.com. 1850 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850. M432, 1,009 rolls.
Source Citation
Year: 1860; Census Place: Ozan, Hempstead, Arkansas; Roll: M653_42; Page: 709; 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.
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1,438 rolls.
Source Citation
Year: 1880; Census Place: Ozan, Hempstead, Arkansas; Roll: 46; Page: 508B; Enumeration District: 112
Source Information
Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site.
Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Citing this Record
Bronson Moore v. Col. Stephen Moore, July 31, 1867.
"United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of Freedmen's Complaints, 1865-1872," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2QR-4JRX : accessed 6 September 2018), Stephen Moore, 31 Jul 1867; citing Residence, Arkansas, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1901, Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1861-1880, RG 105, (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 23; FHL microfilm 2,424,775Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.
The Hillsborough Recorder, 1831-1868.
Biographical Data
Important Dates
Stephen Moore, Jr was born on October 4, 1801, in Hillsborough, NC. He died on September 17, 1872, and was buried in Old Washington Cemetery.
Occupations
Relatives
- Spouse: Mary Gray, married on August 19, 1830. Marriage Bond in Randolph County
Children:
- five sons, Alexander Moore (b. 1833), William Moore (2) (b. 1835), Stephen Moore (b. 1841), Henry Moore (b. 1843) and Richard Moore (1845-1862).
- four daughters, Mary Frances Moore (b. 1837)
- Sibling: one brother, William Moore.