Death certificate on ancestry.com list wife as Virginia Larue Houck. This could be a second wife or information was provided in error.
Biography gives wife name as Jennie E Ripple McKelvy.
From a Find A Grave Contributor:
Obituary for Virginia Houck states she was wife of Orlando when he died and she went on to remarry. So I would guess Jennie is a first wife.
Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley:
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry,
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers. Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M.
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 327-328
Newspaper Clipping about Orlando's retirement from East Broad Top Railroad give same information as Biography.
This is an abstract of the biography.
ORLANDO W. MOORE, Orbisonia, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born in Penn township, Huntingdon county, September 4, 1851. He is a son of Samuel and Nancy (Lee) Moore. James Lee, maternal grandfather of Mr. Moore, was the son of a sea captain, and was born on his father's vessel, in mid-ocean. Samuel Moore was a native of Penn township, Huntingdon county, His wife, Nancy (Lee) Moore, survived him for twenty years, and died in the borough of Rock Hill. Their children are: Orlando W.; Millie E.,( Marilla Elizabeth) deceased, wife of James McDonald, of Mapleton, Pa.; Sally, wife of J.B. Hastings,(I believe this is Sarah wife of Israel Hastings) of Huntingdon, Pa., both deceased; Susan, wife of John Hastings, of Huntingdon, both deceased; Jefferson S., resides at Logan Furnace, Mifflin county, Pa.; and Harry G., Rock Hill, Pa.
1850 census mentions brothers, John 9 years old, James 8 years old, Sam 3 years old, sister Rachel 4 years old, newborn Martha.
Orlando married August 4, 1874, at Newton Hamilton, to Jennie E., daughter of Joseph P. and Elizabeth (Ripple) McKelvy.
Children are: Blanche, who died at five years of age; Frank Saltillo, Pa.; Charles Stewart, Orbisonia; Ethel; and Walter F.
Biography gives wife name as Jennie E Ripple McKelvy.
From a Find A Grave Contributor:
Obituary for Virginia Houck states she was wife of Orlando when he died and she went on to remarry. So I would guess Jennie is a first wife.
Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley:
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry,
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers. Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M.
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 327-328
Newspaper Clipping about Orlando's retirement from East Broad Top Railroad give same information as Biography.
This is an abstract of the biography.
ORLANDO W. MOORE, Orbisonia, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born in Penn township, Huntingdon county, September 4, 1851. He is a son of Samuel and Nancy (Lee) Moore. James Lee, maternal grandfather of Mr. Moore, was the son of a sea captain, and was born on his father's vessel, in mid-ocean. Samuel Moore was a native of Penn township, Huntingdon county, His wife, Nancy (Lee) Moore, survived him for twenty years, and died in the borough of Rock Hill. Their children are: Orlando W.; Millie E.,( Marilla Elizabeth) deceased, wife of James McDonald, of Mapleton, Pa.; Sally, wife of J.B. Hastings,(I believe this is Sarah wife of Israel Hastings) of Huntingdon, Pa., both deceased; Susan, wife of John Hastings, of Huntingdon, both deceased; Jefferson S., resides at Logan Furnace, Mifflin county, Pa.; and Harry G., Rock Hill, Pa.
1850 census mentions brothers, John 9 years old, James 8 years old, Sam 3 years old, sister Rachel 4 years old, newborn Martha.
Orlando married August 4, 1874, at Newton Hamilton, to Jennie E., daughter of Joseph P. and Elizabeth (Ripple) McKelvy.
Children are: Blanche, who died at five years of age; Frank Saltillo, Pa.; Charles Stewart, Orbisonia; Ethel; and Walter F.
Death certificate on ancestry.com list wife as Virginia Larue Houck. This could be a second wife or information was provided in error.
Biography gives wife name as Jennie E Ripple McKelvy.
From a Find A Grave Contributor:
Obituary for Virginia Houck states she was wife of Orlando when he died and she went on to remarry. So I would guess Jennie is a first wife.
Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley:
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry,
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers. Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M.
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 327-328
Newspaper Clipping about Orlando's retirement from East Broad Top Railroad give same information as Biography.
This is an abstract of the biography.
ORLANDO W. MOORE, Orbisonia, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born in Penn township, Huntingdon county, September 4, 1851. He is a son of Samuel and Nancy (Lee) Moore. James Lee, maternal grandfather of Mr. Moore, was the son of a sea captain, and was born on his father's vessel, in mid-ocean. Samuel Moore was a native of Penn township, Huntingdon county, His wife, Nancy (Lee) Moore, survived him for twenty years, and died in the borough of Rock Hill. Their children are: Orlando W.; Millie E.,( Marilla Elizabeth) deceased, wife of James McDonald, of Mapleton, Pa.; Sally, wife of J.B. Hastings,(I believe this is Sarah wife of Israel Hastings) of Huntingdon, Pa., both deceased; Susan, wife of John Hastings, of Huntingdon, both deceased; Jefferson S., resides at Logan Furnace, Mifflin county, Pa.; and Harry G., Rock Hill, Pa.
1850 census mentions brothers, John 9 years old, James 8 years old, Sam 3 years old, sister Rachel 4 years old, newborn Martha.
Orlando married August 4, 1874, at Newton Hamilton, to Jennie E., daughter of Joseph P. and Elizabeth (Ripple) McKelvy.
Children are: Blanche, who died at five years of age; Frank Saltillo, Pa.; Charles Stewart, Orbisonia; Ethel; and Walter F.
Biography gives wife name as Jennie E Ripple McKelvy.
From a Find A Grave Contributor:
Obituary for Virginia Houck states she was wife of Orlando when he died and she went on to remarry. So I would guess Jennie is a first wife.
Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley:
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry,
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers. Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M.
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 327-328
Newspaper Clipping about Orlando's retirement from East Broad Top Railroad give same information as Biography.
This is an abstract of the biography.
ORLANDO W. MOORE, Orbisonia, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born in Penn township, Huntingdon county, September 4, 1851. He is a son of Samuel and Nancy (Lee) Moore. James Lee, maternal grandfather of Mr. Moore, was the son of a sea captain, and was born on his father's vessel, in mid-ocean. Samuel Moore was a native of Penn township, Huntingdon county, His wife, Nancy (Lee) Moore, survived him for twenty years, and died in the borough of Rock Hill. Their children are: Orlando W.; Millie E.,( Marilla Elizabeth) deceased, wife of James McDonald, of Mapleton, Pa.; Sally, wife of J.B. Hastings,(I believe this is Sarah wife of Israel Hastings) of Huntingdon, Pa., both deceased; Susan, wife of John Hastings, of Huntingdon, both deceased; Jefferson S., resides at Logan Furnace, Mifflin county, Pa.; and Harry G., Rock Hill, Pa.
1850 census mentions brothers, John 9 years old, James 8 years old, Sam 3 years old, sister Rachel 4 years old, newborn Martha.
Orlando married August 4, 1874, at Newton Hamilton, to Jennie E., daughter of Joseph P. and Elizabeth (Ripple) McKelvy.
Children are: Blanche, who died at five years of age; Frank Saltillo, Pa.; Charles Stewart, Orbisonia; Ethel; and Walter F.
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