Ezra was the seventh child of Jesse B. Moore and Letticia Downing. Ezra served in the Civil War. He was inducted on July 24, 1862 and mustered out on July 22, 1865. Ezra was in Company A of the 76th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. After returning home, he married Mary Elizabeth Kendall; a daughter of Alfred Kendall and his wife, Sarah A. Kendall (they were first cousins). Ezra and Mary celebrated their nuptials on November 13, 1865 in Belmont Township (Iroquois County), Illinois. They had eight children; six sons and two daughters. After Mary's death in 1882, Ezra married Mrs. Elizabeth Almeda "Meda" (Gidams/Givens) McDermott. They were married June 21, 1883 in Iroquois County, Illinois. They had three children; one son and two daughters.
HISTORICAL TEXT: History of Iroquois County; Beckwith, H. W.; H. H. Hill & Co.; Chicago, Illinois: 1880 - Middleport and Belmont Townships pages 7 & 50.
HISTORICAL TEXT: Past and Present of Iroquois County, Illinois (1907); by J.W. Kern, M.A. S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.; Chicago, 1907. 'Alphabetical Roster', page 720.
OBITUARY NOTICE: Watseka Republican; Watseka (Iroquois County), Illinois - article dated August 11, 1915.
BURIAL RECORDS: Pape Mortuary; 10 E. Williams Street, Danville (Vermilion County), Illinois.
BIBLE RECORDS: JOHN S. MOORE FAMILY BIBLE; Holy bible containing the Old & New Testaments; published by B. Waugh & T. Mason, New York, 1834; for the Methodist Espiscopal Church: copies of Family Record pages given to numerous members of Moore-Hanes families - births, marriages and deaths recorded.
GENEALOGIES: Moore Family Genealogy; by Ralph D. and Virginia Moore, 1980. Excerpt, "Ezra and his brother, Aaron Foreman Moore, had a general store at Fairbury, Illinois. The store burned, in the Spring of 1870. Ezra and his family returned to Iroquois County, to a farm near Woodland, Illinois. He farmed, on various farms, in Iroquois County until the death of his wife, in 1882. He remarried, in 1883, and his second wife refused to have the children. They were scattered out among friends, relatives and neighbors. Ezra quit farming and moved to Sheldon, Illinois, where he engaged in the occupation of plasterer and mason. He died of cancer of the throat at the Veterans Hospital in Danville, Illinois, in 1915. His funeral was the first time his children were all together since the death of their mother, in 1882."
HISTORICAL TEXT: History of Iroquois County; Beckwith, H. W.; H. H. Hill & Co.; Chicago, Illinois: 1880 - Middleport and Belmont Townships pages 7 & 50.
HISTORICAL TEXT: Past and Present of Iroquois County, Illinois (1907); by J.W. Kern, M.A. S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.; Chicago, 1907. 'Alphabetical Roster', page 720.
OBITUARY NOTICE: Watseka Republican; Watseka (Iroquois County), Illinois - article dated August 11, 1915.
BURIAL RECORDS: Pape Mortuary; 10 E. Williams Street, Danville (Vermilion County), Illinois.
BIBLE RECORDS: JOHN S. MOORE FAMILY BIBLE; Holy bible containing the Old & New Testaments; published by B. Waugh & T. Mason, New York, 1834; for the Methodist Espiscopal Church: copies of Family Record pages given to numerous members of Moore-Hanes families - births, marriages and deaths recorded.
GENEALOGIES: Moore Family Genealogy; by Ralph D. and Virginia Moore, 1980. Excerpt, "Ezra and his brother, Aaron Foreman Moore, had a general store at Fairbury, Illinois. The store burned, in the Spring of 1870. Ezra and his family returned to Iroquois County, to a farm near Woodland, Illinois. He farmed, on various farms, in Iroquois County until the death of his wife, in 1882. He remarried, in 1883, and his second wife refused to have the children. They were scattered out among friends, relatives and neighbors. Ezra quit farming and moved to Sheldon, Illinois, where he engaged in the occupation of plasterer and mason. He died of cancer of the throat at the Veterans Hospital in Danville, Illinois, in 1915. His funeral was the first time his children were all together since the death of their mother, in 1882."
Ezra was the seventh child of Jesse B. Moore and Letticia Downing. Ezra served in the Civil War. He was inducted on July 24, 1862 and mustered out on July 22, 1865. Ezra was in Company A of the 76th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. After returning home, he married Mary Elizabeth Kendall; a daughter of Alfred Kendall and his wife, Sarah A. Kendall (they were first cousins). Ezra and Mary celebrated their nuptials on November 13, 1865 in Belmont Township (Iroquois County), Illinois. They had eight children; six sons and two daughters. After Mary's death in 1882, Ezra married Mrs. Elizabeth Almeda "Meda" (Gidams/Givens) McDermott. They were married June 21, 1883 in Iroquois County, Illinois. They had three children; one son and two daughters.
HISTORICAL TEXT: History of Iroquois County; Beckwith, H. W.; H. H. Hill & Co.; Chicago, Illinois: 1880 - Middleport and Belmont Townships pages 7 & 50.
HISTORICAL TEXT: Past and Present of Iroquois County, Illinois (1907); by J.W. Kern, M.A. S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.; Chicago, 1907. 'Alphabetical Roster', page 720.
OBITUARY NOTICE: Watseka Republican; Watseka (Iroquois County), Illinois - article dated August 11, 1915.
BURIAL RECORDS: Pape Mortuary; 10 E. Williams Street, Danville (Vermilion County), Illinois.
BIBLE RECORDS: JOHN S. MOORE FAMILY BIBLE; Holy bible containing the Old & New Testaments; published by B. Waugh & T. Mason, New York, 1834; for the Methodist Espiscopal Church: copies of Family Record pages given to numerous members of Moore-Hanes families - births, marriages and deaths recorded.
GENEALOGIES: Moore Family Genealogy; by Ralph D. and Virginia Moore, 1980. Excerpt, "Ezra and his brother, Aaron Foreman Moore, had a general store at Fairbury, Illinois. The store burned, in the Spring of 1870. Ezra and his family returned to Iroquois County, to a farm near Woodland, Illinois. He farmed, on various farms, in Iroquois County until the death of his wife, in 1882. He remarried, in 1883, and his second wife refused to have the children. They were scattered out among friends, relatives and neighbors. Ezra quit farming and moved to Sheldon, Illinois, where he engaged in the occupation of plasterer and mason. He died of cancer of the throat at the Veterans Hospital in Danville, Illinois, in 1915. His funeral was the first time his children were all together since the death of their mother, in 1882."
HISTORICAL TEXT: History of Iroquois County; Beckwith, H. W.; H. H. Hill & Co.; Chicago, Illinois: 1880 - Middleport and Belmont Townships pages 7 & 50.
HISTORICAL TEXT: Past and Present of Iroquois County, Illinois (1907); by J.W. Kern, M.A. S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.; Chicago, 1907. 'Alphabetical Roster', page 720.
OBITUARY NOTICE: Watseka Republican; Watseka (Iroquois County), Illinois - article dated August 11, 1915.
BURIAL RECORDS: Pape Mortuary; 10 E. Williams Street, Danville (Vermilion County), Illinois.
BIBLE RECORDS: JOHN S. MOORE FAMILY BIBLE; Holy bible containing the Old & New Testaments; published by B. Waugh & T. Mason, New York, 1834; for the Methodist Espiscopal Church: copies of Family Record pages given to numerous members of Moore-Hanes families - births, marriages and deaths recorded.
GENEALOGIES: Moore Family Genealogy; by Ralph D. and Virginia Moore, 1980. Excerpt, "Ezra and his brother, Aaron Foreman Moore, had a general store at Fairbury, Illinois. The store burned, in the Spring of 1870. Ezra and his family returned to Iroquois County, to a farm near Woodland, Illinois. He farmed, on various farms, in Iroquois County until the death of his wife, in 1882. He remarried, in 1883, and his second wife refused to have the children. They were scattered out among friends, relatives and neighbors. Ezra quit farming and moved to Sheldon, Illinois, where he engaged in the occupation of plasterer and mason. He died of cancer of the throat at the Veterans Hospital in Danville, Illinois, in 1915. His funeral was the first time his children were all together since the death of their mother, in 1882."
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