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George Washington Moulder

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George Washington Moulder

Birth
Tennessee, USA
Death
14 Apr 1885 (aged 86)
Missouri, USA
Burial
Roach, Camden County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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First son of Felta Moulder (11/25/1776 - 1/7/1833). George married Ann Yadon on 6/27/1824. George cared for his grandparents, John (d. 1810) and wife Susannah (d. 1833), during their old age until they passed. Shortly thereafter, in 1837, he emigrated to Camden Co., Mo. with his three brothers, Rufus, Felta, Silas and his sister Bettie. He was Judge of the County Court in Camden Co. for a number of years, and a Justice of the Peace. In fact, he performed the first marriage recorded in Camden Co. between Martha Jane Russell and Richard Jackson on 3/5/1841.


He was a pioneer in Camden Co. road work, being the first road justice appointed in Camden Co. He supervised the lay out of the principal County roads, many of which are in use today as he originally laid out.


He homesteaded land about eight miles west of Linn Creek, the County seat. His homestead was on the Niagara River. Asked why he did not make a better choice of land, it being considered a poor piece compared with other available land in the vicinity, he said that he spent some time

going over the available land and the place he selected was the only place he could find where the sun rose and set in the right place. He was very peculiar in many ways. He always said there was only one way that anything could be done, and that was the right way. If otherwise, it was done wrong. He never would permit any one to take a photograph of him. Whatever the rules were, or whatever the law
was, it was carried out by him with the utmost care and exactness. In his time, he was a valuable man to the community.


Records of his work in early days of Camden Co. were destroyed by a fire in 1902, which burned the courthouse and destroyed all county records.


The above information is taken from "MOULDER'S RECORD of the Moulder family of America", written by George Chester Moulder in 1933.

First son of Felta Moulder (11/25/1776 - 1/7/1833). George married Ann Yadon on 6/27/1824. George cared for his grandparents, John (d. 1810) and wife Susannah (d. 1833), during their old age until they passed. Shortly thereafter, in 1837, he emigrated to Camden Co., Mo. with his three brothers, Rufus, Felta, Silas and his sister Bettie. He was Judge of the County Court in Camden Co. for a number of years, and a Justice of the Peace. In fact, he performed the first marriage recorded in Camden Co. between Martha Jane Russell and Richard Jackson on 3/5/1841.


He was a pioneer in Camden Co. road work, being the first road justice appointed in Camden Co. He supervised the lay out of the principal County roads, many of which are in use today as he originally laid out.


He homesteaded land about eight miles west of Linn Creek, the County seat. His homestead was on the Niagara River. Asked why he did not make a better choice of land, it being considered a poor piece compared with other available land in the vicinity, he said that he spent some time

going over the available land and the place he selected was the only place he could find where the sun rose and set in the right place. He was very peculiar in many ways. He always said there was only one way that anything could be done, and that was the right way. If otherwise, it was done wrong. He never would permit any one to take a photograph of him. Whatever the rules were, or whatever the law
was, it was carried out by him with the utmost care and exactness. In his time, he was a valuable man to the community.


Records of his work in early days of Camden Co. were destroyed by a fire in 1902, which burned the courthouse and destroyed all county records.


The above information is taken from "MOULDER'S RECORD of the Moulder family of America", written by George Chester Moulder in 1933.



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