Grandmother Mary Teresa "Tessie" Moore was born in Kylertown, Pennsylvania, one of two surviving children of Joseph Wesley Moore and Ida Hess. Ida Hess was the daughter of George Daniel Hess, a prominent member of the Sylvan Grove community and one of the founders of the Sylvan Grove Church. George Hess was married to Charlotte Amanda Daugherty, daughter of Robert Daugherty and Charlotte Logan, daughter of David Logan and Charlotte Ferree, a direct descendant of Maria De La Warembere Feree, who with her family settled a part of Lancaster County under a grant from William Penn.
Tessie was very good with numbers and had an exceptional memory. Her skills made her valuable as a bookkeeper and her daughters inherited some of her intellectual gifts, one of her daughters becoming a microbiologist and pioneer of DNA sequencing, the procedure that eventually led to the mapping of the human genome. Her fine memory and the breadth of her knowledge from reading made her very good at the television show Jeopardy, which she and I would watch together religiously during her sometimes lengthy visits, and also at crossword puzzles, which she loved.
Tessie met and married Clifford Elsworth McFall, the youngest son of Isaac McFall of Milford Township, Butler County, Ohio. She was much loved in our family and her visits always generated excitement in our household. Mild mannered and devoted to her grandchildren, she was a wonderful role model for us. I recall that each time she visited she brought some little gift for me and my sister, gifts which tended to challenge the mind and fire the imagination. She herself was very well read and loved classical music. She had an impressive collection of 78's with some of the greatest recordings in existence. I remember that she gave me her collection of the Harvard Classics, a collection which I cherish today more than 30 years later. Her life was not an easy one. May she rest in peace.
Tessie was very good with numbers and had an exceptional memory. Her skills made her valuable as a bookkeeper and her daughters inherited some of her intellectual gifts, one of her daughters becoming a microbiologist and pioneer of DNA sequencing, the procedure that eventually led to the mapping of the human genome. Her fine memory and the breadth of her knowledge from reading made her very good at the television show Jeopardy, which she and I would watch together religiously during her sometimes lengthy visits, and also at crossword puzzles, which she loved.
Tessie met and married Clifford Elsworth McFall, the youngest son of Isaac McFall of Milford Township, Butler County, Ohio. She was much loved in our family and her visits always generated excitement in our household. Mild mannered and devoted to her grandchildren, she was a wonderful role model for us. I recall that each time she visited she brought some little gift for me and my sister, gifts which tended to challenge the mind and fire the imagination. She herself was very well read and loved classical music. She had an impressive collection of 78's with some of the greatest recordings in existence. I remember that she gave me her collection of the Harvard Classics, a collection which I cherish today more than 30 years later. Her life was not an easy one. May she rest in peace.
Grandmother Mary Teresa "Tessie" Moore was born in Kylertown, Pennsylvania, one of two surviving children of Joseph Wesley Moore and Ida Hess. Ida Hess was the daughter of George Daniel Hess, a prominent member of the Sylvan Grove community and one of the founders of the Sylvan Grove Church. George Hess was married to Charlotte Amanda Daugherty, daughter of Robert Daugherty and Charlotte Logan, daughter of David Logan and Charlotte Ferree, a direct descendant of Maria De La Warembere Feree, who with her family settled a part of Lancaster County under a grant from William Penn.
Tessie was very good with numbers and had an exceptional memory. Her skills made her valuable as a bookkeeper and her daughters inherited some of her intellectual gifts, one of her daughters becoming a microbiologist and pioneer of DNA sequencing, the procedure that eventually led to the mapping of the human genome. Her fine memory and the breadth of her knowledge from reading made her very good at the television show Jeopardy, which she and I would watch together religiously during her sometimes lengthy visits, and also at crossword puzzles, which she loved.
Tessie met and married Clifford Elsworth McFall, the youngest son of Isaac McFall of Milford Township, Butler County, Ohio. She was much loved in our family and her visits always generated excitement in our household. Mild mannered and devoted to her grandchildren, she was a wonderful role model for us. I recall that each time she visited she brought some little gift for me and my sister, gifts which tended to challenge the mind and fire the imagination. She herself was very well read and loved classical music. She had an impressive collection of 78's with some of the greatest recordings in existence. I remember that she gave me her collection of the Harvard Classics, a collection which I cherish today more than 30 years later. Her life was not an easy one. May she rest in peace.
Tessie was very good with numbers and had an exceptional memory. Her skills made her valuable as a bookkeeper and her daughters inherited some of her intellectual gifts, one of her daughters becoming a microbiologist and pioneer of DNA sequencing, the procedure that eventually led to the mapping of the human genome. Her fine memory and the breadth of her knowledge from reading made her very good at the television show Jeopardy, which she and I would watch together religiously during her sometimes lengthy visits, and also at crossword puzzles, which she loved.
Tessie met and married Clifford Elsworth McFall, the youngest son of Isaac McFall of Milford Township, Butler County, Ohio. She was much loved in our family and her visits always generated excitement in our household. Mild mannered and devoted to her grandchildren, she was a wonderful role model for us. I recall that each time she visited she brought some little gift for me and my sister, gifts which tended to challenge the mind and fire the imagination. She herself was very well read and loved classical music. She had an impressive collection of 78's with some of the greatest recordings in existence. I remember that she gave me her collection of the Harvard Classics, a collection which I cherish today more than 30 years later. Her life was not an easy one. May she rest in peace.
