Mrs. Pleasance Moore Dies At Age Of 97 Years
Mrs. Pleasance Maria Moore, daughter of Michael McBlair, widow of Henry Moore, and formerly well known in Maryland society, died Wednesday night at her home, the Brexton, from the infirmities of age after an illness of less than a fortnight. Her body was removed yesterday to the home of her niece, Mrs. Charles S. Winder, 3 West Biddle street. A requiem mass will be celebrated at the Cathedral at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, and she will be buried in Bonnie Brae Cemetery beside her husband.
Lived Here All Her Life.
Mrs. Moore was the last of a family of 11 children. She was born in Baltimore November 7, 1819, and had lived in this city practically all of her life. She retained her remarkably good health almost up to the time of her death; her mind was alert and her memory of her early life singularly clear. She took a keen interest in current events and was a strong advocate of President Wilson in the last campaign. She possessed an unusually sanguine temperament, and was noted among her friends for her sprightly wit, her gracious manner, typical of the gentlewoman of her early days, and her ready sympathy. Her mother, before marriage, was Miss Pleasance Goodwin, of Baltimore,. a relative of the Ridgelys, Dorseys and other Colonial Maryland families. Mrs. Moore's eldest sister, Miss Alicia McBlair, born in 1806, became the wife of the sixth Edward Lloyd of Wye House, on the Eastern Shore, where much of Mrs. Moore's youth was spent. Another sister, Miss Elizibeth McBlair, married Murray Lloyd. Of her brothers, three were officers in the United States Navy.
Had Prominent Friends.
Among her close friends of the past was Mrs. Reverdy Johnson, and she used to recall in her reminiscences the occasions when she met Francis Scott Key in Baltimore homes. Those whom she counted warm friends in her later life included Cardinal Gibbons, and the Cardinal called on her at her home within the last fortnight. Miss Florence M. Mackubin, who also resides at the Brexton. has painted an interesting portrait of her. Mrs. Moore had traveled extensively, both in this country and abroad, and had watched with interest the development of means of transportation from day to day of the stagecoach and prairie schooner to that of the express train and mammoth ocean liner. In 1871 Mrs. Moore was married to Henry Moore, of Wheeling, W. Va., and Baltimore, who was the father, by another marriage, of Mrs. Robert Lehr, of Baltimore; Mrs. Edward Contee Johnson, of Winchester, Va., and Mrs. Campbell Murdoch, of Washington. Surviving Relatives are two nieces in addition to Mrs. Winder, whose mother was Mrs. Murray Lloyd, Misses Minna and Eva McBlair, of Washington and a nephew, Donald McBlair, also of 1 Washington.
The Baltimore Sun, December 1, 1916.
Mrs. Pleasance Maria Moore, daughter of Michael McBlair, widow of Henry Moore, and formerly well known in Maryland society, died Wednesday night at her home, the Brexton, from the infirmities of age after an illness of less than a fortnight. Her body was removed yesterday to the home of her niece, Mrs. Charles S. Winder, 3 West Biddle street. A requiem mass will be celebrated at the Cathedral at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, and she will be buried in Bonnie Brae Cemetery beside her husband.
Lived Here All Her Life.
Mrs. Moore was the last of a family of 11 children. She was born in Baltimore November 7, 1819, and had lived in this city practically all of her life. She retained her remarkably good health almost up to the time of her death; her mind was alert and her memory of her early life singularly clear. She took a keen interest in current events and was a strong advocate of President Wilson in the last campaign. She possessed an unusually sanguine temperament, and was noted among her friends for her sprightly wit, her gracious manner, typical of the gentlewoman of her early days, and her ready sympathy. Her mother, before marriage, was Miss Pleasance Goodwin, of Baltimore,. a relative of the Ridgelys, Dorseys and other Colonial Maryland families. Mrs. Moore's eldest sister, Miss Alicia McBlair, born in 1806, became the wife of the sixth Edward Lloyd of Wye House, on the Eastern Shore, where much of Mrs. Moore's youth was spent. Another sister, Miss Elizibeth McBlair, married Murray Lloyd. Of her brothers, three were officers in the United States Navy.
Had Prominent Friends.
Among her close friends of the past was Mrs. Reverdy Johnson, and she used to recall in her reminiscences the occasions when she met Francis Scott Key in Baltimore homes. Those whom she counted warm friends in her later life included Cardinal Gibbons, and the Cardinal called on her at her home within the last fortnight. Miss Florence M. Mackubin, who also resides at the Brexton. has painted an interesting portrait of her. Mrs. Moore had traveled extensively, both in this country and abroad, and had watched with interest the development of means of transportation from day to day of the stagecoach and prairie schooner to that of the express train and mammoth ocean liner. In 1871 Mrs. Moore was married to Henry Moore, of Wheeling, W. Va., and Baltimore, who was the father, by another marriage, of Mrs. Robert Lehr, of Baltimore; Mrs. Edward Contee Johnson, of Winchester, Va., and Mrs. Campbell Murdoch, of Washington. Surviving Relatives are two nieces in addition to Mrs. Winder, whose mother was Mrs. Murray Lloyd, Misses Minna and Eva McBlair, of Washington and a nephew, Donald McBlair, also of 1 Washington.
The Baltimore Sun, December 1, 1916.
Mrs. Pleasance Moore Dies At Age Of 97 Years
Mrs. Pleasance Maria Moore, daughter of Michael McBlair, widow of Henry Moore, and formerly well known in Maryland society, died Wednesday night at her home, the Brexton, from the infirmities of age after an illness of less than a fortnight. Her body was removed yesterday to the home of her niece, Mrs. Charles S. Winder, 3 West Biddle street. A requiem mass will be celebrated at the Cathedral at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, and she will be buried in Bonnie Brae Cemetery beside her husband.
Lived Here All Her Life.
Mrs. Moore was the last of a family of 11 children. She was born in Baltimore November 7, 1819, and had lived in this city practically all of her life. She retained her remarkably good health almost up to the time of her death; her mind was alert and her memory of her early life singularly clear. She took a keen interest in current events and was a strong advocate of President Wilson in the last campaign. She possessed an unusually sanguine temperament, and was noted among her friends for her sprightly wit, her gracious manner, typical of the gentlewoman of her early days, and her ready sympathy. Her mother, before marriage, was Miss Pleasance Goodwin, of Baltimore,. a relative of the Ridgelys, Dorseys and other Colonial Maryland families. Mrs. Moore's eldest sister, Miss Alicia McBlair, born in 1806, became the wife of the sixth Edward Lloyd of Wye House, on the Eastern Shore, where much of Mrs. Moore's youth was spent. Another sister, Miss Elizibeth McBlair, married Murray Lloyd. Of her brothers, three were officers in the United States Navy.
Had Prominent Friends.
Among her close friends of the past was Mrs. Reverdy Johnson, and she used to recall in her reminiscences the occasions when she met Francis Scott Key in Baltimore homes. Those whom she counted warm friends in her later life included Cardinal Gibbons, and the Cardinal called on her at her home within the last fortnight. Miss Florence M. Mackubin, who also resides at the Brexton. has painted an interesting portrait of her. Mrs. Moore had traveled extensively, both in this country and abroad, and had watched with interest the development of means of transportation from day to day of the stagecoach and prairie schooner to that of the express train and mammoth ocean liner. In 1871 Mrs. Moore was married to Henry Moore, of Wheeling, W. Va., and Baltimore, who was the father, by another marriage, of Mrs. Robert Lehr, of Baltimore; Mrs. Edward Contee Johnson, of Winchester, Va., and Mrs. Campbell Murdoch, of Washington. Surviving Relatives are two nieces in addition to Mrs. Winder, whose mother was Mrs. Murray Lloyd, Misses Minna and Eva McBlair, of Washington and a nephew, Donald McBlair, also of 1 Washington.
The Baltimore Sun, December 1, 1916.
Mrs. Pleasance Maria Moore, daughter of Michael McBlair, widow of Henry Moore, and formerly well known in Maryland society, died Wednesday night at her home, the Brexton, from the infirmities of age after an illness of less than a fortnight. Her body was removed yesterday to the home of her niece, Mrs. Charles S. Winder, 3 West Biddle street. A requiem mass will be celebrated at the Cathedral at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, and she will be buried in Bonnie Brae Cemetery beside her husband.
Lived Here All Her Life.
Mrs. Moore was the last of a family of 11 children. She was born in Baltimore November 7, 1819, and had lived in this city practically all of her life. She retained her remarkably good health almost up to the time of her death; her mind was alert and her memory of her early life singularly clear. She took a keen interest in current events and was a strong advocate of President Wilson in the last campaign. She possessed an unusually sanguine temperament, and was noted among her friends for her sprightly wit, her gracious manner, typical of the gentlewoman of her early days, and her ready sympathy. Her mother, before marriage, was Miss Pleasance Goodwin, of Baltimore,. a relative of the Ridgelys, Dorseys and other Colonial Maryland families. Mrs. Moore's eldest sister, Miss Alicia McBlair, born in 1806, became the wife of the sixth Edward Lloyd of Wye House, on the Eastern Shore, where much of Mrs. Moore's youth was spent. Another sister, Miss Elizibeth McBlair, married Murray Lloyd. Of her brothers, three were officers in the United States Navy.
Had Prominent Friends.
Among her close friends of the past was Mrs. Reverdy Johnson, and she used to recall in her reminiscences the occasions when she met Francis Scott Key in Baltimore homes. Those whom she counted warm friends in her later life included Cardinal Gibbons, and the Cardinal called on her at her home within the last fortnight. Miss Florence M. Mackubin, who also resides at the Brexton. has painted an interesting portrait of her. Mrs. Moore had traveled extensively, both in this country and abroad, and had watched with interest the development of means of transportation from day to day of the stagecoach and prairie schooner to that of the express train and mammoth ocean liner. In 1871 Mrs. Moore was married to Henry Moore, of Wheeling, W. Va., and Baltimore, who was the father, by another marriage, of Mrs. Robert Lehr, of Baltimore; Mrs. Edward Contee Johnson, of Winchester, Va., and Mrs. Campbell Murdoch, of Washington. Surviving Relatives are two nieces in addition to Mrs. Winder, whose mother was Mrs. Murray Lloyd, Misses Minna and Eva McBlair, of Washington and a nephew, Donald McBlair, also of 1 Washington.
The Baltimore Sun, December 1, 1916.
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