Rev. John Moore

(1799-1861)

John Moore was born on February 14, 1799 in Anderson County, South Carolina.

After a great deal of research I have concluded that the genealogy search sites that show John Moore married to Jane Elizabeth Stewart refer to another John Moore who died in 1843. Jane and the John Moore that those sites reference are buried side by side in Chester County, SC.

It is clear that our John was married to “Jane” as documented in his will, which was probated in 1862 following his death. Census records also collaborate this. At the time of this effort, search efforts for the ancestry of Jane have hit a roadblock.

Rev. John Moore and his family were very prominent in the Carnesville area of Franklin County, GA for much of the 19th century.

Rev. Moore also joined the Confederate States of America months before his death in 1861 and died holding the rank of Private in the CSA organized in Athens, GA under the command of Thomas W. Thomas, Col. Linton Stevens, and Maj. William M. Macintosh. The “Tugalo Blues” company was organized from men of Franklin County. It is noteworthy that Rev. Moore was 61 years old when he enlisted in an effort to defend the Confederacy.

Children of John and Jane Moore:

James Milton (Reverend J. M.) Moore (1833-1902)

M. (perhaps Mary) twin of James Milton (1833-?)

Sarah Emeline Moore (1836-1920)

Elizabeth Moore (1838-?)

John O. Moore (1842-?)

Virgil A. S. Moore (1849-1912)

Excerpt from History of Tugalo Baptist Association 

by Rev. J. F. Goode published in 1924

Of the early life of John Moore we know absolutely nothing, nor have we any means of obtaining any in­ formation. When the writer was seven years old he well remembers his being a frequent visitor in his father's home. He was at that time  an  old  man.  He lived  on  his farm, in Franklin County, nine miles west of Carnes­ ville, on the  Carnesville  and  Gainsville  public road. He was considered a minister of far more than ordinary ability. He was a Doctor  of  Divinity  and  was said  to be one of the most thoroughly educated men of  that time, being a graduate, but of what College or University nothing is now known. His son, V. A. S. Moore, who spent his life on the farm ·where he was brought up, and who died about 1915, once showed the writer of this sketch his father's Hebrew Bible. He enlisted  as  a private and entered the service of the Confederate States in 1861, and died at Savannah, Ga., in November follow­ ing. The writer remembers hearing a report soon after  his death, that such was the reputation he had made as a minister during his brief life in Savannah, that a delega­ tion was sent from the First Baptist Church, requesting that  his  body  be  turned  over  to  the  church  for burial, ·which ·was  granted.   His son, James M. Moore, who  went to Mississippi about 1860, was for many years a prominent minister in that State. He died  about  fifteen  years ago. A.t the session of the Association in 1862, the following resolution was drawn up and signed by W. F. Bowers and D. H.  Payne,  and  was  adopted  and  entered on the minutes:

We find that God in His providence, since our last session, has broken the  tie  that  here  upon  earth  united  us,  the  Christian  part as well as the general community, to our  much  beloved,  aged brother, John Moore. The subject of  this report  by  his  unwaver­ ing energy in the  cause  of  Christ, peculiarly  distinguished  himself as a devoted man of God by labors of  love as  a minister of  Christ, not only in the pulpit, but upon all occasions.  He  particularly  evinced, to all discerning minds, his efficiency  as  an  able instructor in the  great  truths  and  doctrines  of  the  Bible.  And  in  the  close  of his Ii£e he proved that he not only esteemed the cause of Christ, but that he was a patriot indeed, in this that  he at  a  very advanced age in life sacrificed the comfort of home  and  the  social  inter­ course of friends, and entered the  service  of  his  country  in  de­ fense  of  its  rights,  and  enduring  for  a  short  time  the  privations of the camp,  died  a  soldier's  death.  We  bless  the  name  of  God for the lives of  such  men, though  they  are  not  in  person  with  us to instruct, yet their examples are before us to teach  us  how Christians ought to live.