From History of Clinton Co., Ohio, 1882.
JOSEPH R. MOON, retired, P. O. Martinsville, an old and honored pioneer of Clinton County, was born in Sevier County, Tenn., July 25, 1802. His parents, Samuel and Martha Moon, were natives respectively of Randolph and Chatham Counties, N. C. The former was born April 17, 1781, and the latter March 5, 1781. In 1796, Mr. Moon came to Tennessee, and in the fall of 1808, with his wife and family, to Clark Township, Clinton County, where the famous °' Moon colony" located in the spring of 1809. In 1808, when Samuel Moon settled here, all was a wilderness, and there were but six cabins within the limits of what is now Clark Township. The wild Indians were still here in roving bands, and their contemporaries, the wild animals, still roamed their forests at will. Mr. Moon, the subject of this sketch, was reared here in the midst of primeval nature. His educational advantages were very limited. In 1812, at the age of ten years, he attended his first term of school. It was held in a rude log cabin, furnished with slab floor, slab seats and oiled paper window lights. It was heated with a huge fire-place that occupied almost the full end of the room. This is the description of the pioneer schoolhouses in which Mr. Moon obtained his education. Mr. Moon has witnessed the vast and important changes that occurred in seventy years of the history of Clinton County. He has seen the land converted from a forest into well-improved, fertile fields, and villages grow to cities and thriving towns, and schools, churches and societies organized and established, the very means of enlightening the inhabitants. These were the achievements of the pioneers, among whom our venerable subject was prominent. Mr. Moon has, through his untiring industry and economy, accumulated considerable wealth. In 1829, he removed to Washington Township, where he lived till 1859, when be came to Martinsville and retired. He owns a well-improved and cultivated farm of 304 acres in Washington Township and forty acres in Brown County. He also owns four and a half acres in Martinsville. Mr. Moon was a member of the Board of County Commissioners one term, and also Director of the County Infirmary. He served as Clerk of Washington Township nine years, and as Trustee one year, and was also Trustee of Clark Township one term. September 26, 1827, he was united in marriage with Miss Eleanor Hunter. daughter of Benjamin and Margaret (Montgomery) Hunter, the former a native of Dublin, Ireland, and the latter of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Moon was born in Bourbon County, Ky., February 5, 1805. Four children were the fruits of this union; of these two are living-Margaret, wife of Dr. John Carman, and Martha, wife of F. M. Moore, President of Clinton County National Bank. Findley and Emily are deceased. Findley was a merchant in Martinsville for fourteen years, and an extensive stock and grain dealer. Mr. and Mrs. Moon are members of the Universalist Church. Mr. Moon is a member of the Masonic fraternity. His political views are Republican. He was formerly a Whig. September 26, 1877, Mr. and Mrs. Moon celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, and also bad a re-union of the Moon family and all the descendants of the Moon colonists.
JOSEPH R. MOON, retired, P. O. Martinsville, an old and honored pioneer of Clinton County, was born in Sevier County, Tenn., July 25, 1802. His parents, Samuel and Martha Moon, were natives respectively of Randolph and Chatham Counties, N. C. The former was born April 17, 1781, and the latter March 5, 1781. In 1796, Mr. Moon came to Tennessee, and in the fall of 1808, with his wife and family, to Clark Township, Clinton County, where the famous °' Moon colony" located in the spring of 1809. In 1808, when Samuel Moon settled here, all was a wilderness, and there were but six cabins within the limits of what is now Clark Township. The wild Indians were still here in roving bands, and their contemporaries, the wild animals, still roamed their forests at will. Mr. Moon, the subject of this sketch, was reared here in the midst of primeval nature. His educational advantages were very limited. In 1812, at the age of ten years, he attended his first term of school. It was held in a rude log cabin, furnished with slab floor, slab seats and oiled paper window lights. It was heated with a huge fire-place that occupied almost the full end of the room. This is the description of the pioneer schoolhouses in which Mr. Moon obtained his education. Mr. Moon has witnessed the vast and important changes that occurred in seventy years of the history of Clinton County. He has seen the land converted from a forest into well-improved, fertile fields, and villages grow to cities and thriving towns, and schools, churches and societies organized and established, the very means of enlightening the inhabitants. These were the achievements of the pioneers, among whom our venerable subject was prominent. Mr. Moon has, through his untiring industry and economy, accumulated considerable wealth. In 1829, he removed to Washington Township, where he lived till 1859, when be came to Martinsville and retired. He owns a well-improved and cultivated farm of 304 acres in Washington Township and forty acres in Brown County. He also owns four and a half acres in Martinsville. Mr. Moon was a member of the Board of County Commissioners one term, and also Director of the County Infirmary. He served as Clerk of Washington Township nine years, and as Trustee one year, and was also Trustee of Clark Township one term. September 26, 1827, he was united in marriage with Miss Eleanor Hunter. daughter of Benjamin and Margaret (Montgomery) Hunter, the former a native of Dublin, Ireland, and the latter of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Moon was born in Bourbon County, Ky., February 5, 1805. Four children were the fruits of this union; of these two are living-Margaret, wife of Dr. John Carman, and Martha, wife of F. M. Moore, President of Clinton County National Bank. Findley and Emily are deceased. Findley was a merchant in Martinsville for fourteen years, and an extensive stock and grain dealer. Mr. and Mrs. Moon are members of the Universalist Church. Mr. Moon is a member of the Masonic fraternity. His political views are Republican. He was formerly a Whig. September 26, 1877, Mr. and Mrs. Moon celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, and also bad a re-union of the Moon family and all the descendants of the Moon colonists.
From History of Clinton Co., Ohio, 1882.
JOSEPH R. MOON, retired, P. O. Martinsville, an old and honored pioneer of Clinton County, was born in Sevier County, Tenn., July 25, 1802. His parents, Samuel and Martha Moon, were natives respectively of Randolph and Chatham Counties, N. C. The former was born April 17, 1781, and the latter March 5, 1781. In 1796, Mr. Moon came to Tennessee, and in the fall of 1808, with his wife and family, to Clark Township, Clinton County, where the famous °' Moon colony" located in the spring of 1809. In 1808, when Samuel Moon settled here, all was a wilderness, and there were but six cabins within the limits of what is now Clark Township. The wild Indians were still here in roving bands, and their contemporaries, the wild animals, still roamed their forests at will. Mr. Moon, the subject of this sketch, was reared here in the midst of primeval nature. His educational advantages were very limited. In 1812, at the age of ten years, he attended his first term of school. It was held in a rude log cabin, furnished with slab floor, slab seats and oiled paper window lights. It was heated with a huge fire-place that occupied almost the full end of the room. This is the description of the pioneer schoolhouses in which Mr. Moon obtained his education. Mr. Moon has witnessed the vast and important changes that occurred in seventy years of the history of Clinton County. He has seen the land converted from a forest into well-improved, fertile fields, and villages grow to cities and thriving towns, and schools, churches and societies organized and established, the very means of enlightening the inhabitants. These were the achievements of the pioneers, among whom our venerable subject was prominent. Mr. Moon has, through his untiring industry and economy, accumulated considerable wealth. In 1829, he removed to Washington Township, where he lived till 1859, when be came to Martinsville and retired. He owns a well-improved and cultivated farm of 304 acres in Washington Township and forty acres in Brown County. He also owns four and a half acres in Martinsville. Mr. Moon was a member of the Board of County Commissioners one term, and also Director of the County Infirmary. He served as Clerk of Washington Township nine years, and as Trustee one year, and was also Trustee of Clark Township one term. September 26, 1827, he was united in marriage with Miss Eleanor Hunter. daughter of Benjamin and Margaret (Montgomery) Hunter, the former a native of Dublin, Ireland, and the latter of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Moon was born in Bourbon County, Ky., February 5, 1805. Four children were the fruits of this union; of these two are living-Margaret, wife of Dr. John Carman, and Martha, wife of F. M. Moore, President of Clinton County National Bank. Findley and Emily are deceased. Findley was a merchant in Martinsville for fourteen years, and an extensive stock and grain dealer. Mr. and Mrs. Moon are members of the Universalist Church. Mr. Moon is a member of the Masonic fraternity. His political views are Republican. He was formerly a Whig. September 26, 1877, Mr. and Mrs. Moon celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, and also bad a re-union of the Moon family and all the descendants of the Moon colonists.
JOSEPH R. MOON, retired, P. O. Martinsville, an old and honored pioneer of Clinton County, was born in Sevier County, Tenn., July 25, 1802. His parents, Samuel and Martha Moon, were natives respectively of Randolph and Chatham Counties, N. C. The former was born April 17, 1781, and the latter March 5, 1781. In 1796, Mr. Moon came to Tennessee, and in the fall of 1808, with his wife and family, to Clark Township, Clinton County, where the famous °' Moon colony" located in the spring of 1809. In 1808, when Samuel Moon settled here, all was a wilderness, and there were but six cabins within the limits of what is now Clark Township. The wild Indians were still here in roving bands, and their contemporaries, the wild animals, still roamed their forests at will. Mr. Moon, the subject of this sketch, was reared here in the midst of primeval nature. His educational advantages were very limited. In 1812, at the age of ten years, he attended his first term of school. It was held in a rude log cabin, furnished with slab floor, slab seats and oiled paper window lights. It was heated with a huge fire-place that occupied almost the full end of the room. This is the description of the pioneer schoolhouses in which Mr. Moon obtained his education. Mr. Moon has witnessed the vast and important changes that occurred in seventy years of the history of Clinton County. He has seen the land converted from a forest into well-improved, fertile fields, and villages grow to cities and thriving towns, and schools, churches and societies organized and established, the very means of enlightening the inhabitants. These were the achievements of the pioneers, among whom our venerable subject was prominent. Mr. Moon has, through his untiring industry and economy, accumulated considerable wealth. In 1829, he removed to Washington Township, where he lived till 1859, when be came to Martinsville and retired. He owns a well-improved and cultivated farm of 304 acres in Washington Township and forty acres in Brown County. He also owns four and a half acres in Martinsville. Mr. Moon was a member of the Board of County Commissioners one term, and also Director of the County Infirmary. He served as Clerk of Washington Township nine years, and as Trustee one year, and was also Trustee of Clark Township one term. September 26, 1827, he was united in marriage with Miss Eleanor Hunter. daughter of Benjamin and Margaret (Montgomery) Hunter, the former a native of Dublin, Ireland, and the latter of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Moon was born in Bourbon County, Ky., February 5, 1805. Four children were the fruits of this union; of these two are living-Margaret, wife of Dr. John Carman, and Martha, wife of F. M. Moore, President of Clinton County National Bank. Findley and Emily are deceased. Findley was a merchant in Martinsville for fourteen years, and an extensive stock and grain dealer. Mr. and Mrs. Moon are members of the Universalist Church. Mr. Moon is a member of the Masonic fraternity. His political views are Republican. He was formerly a Whig. September 26, 1877, Mr. and Mrs. Moon celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, and also bad a re-union of the Moon family and all the descendants of the Moon colonists.
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