"Dr. Andrew Barry Moore, father of Colonel [T. J.] Moore, was born within two miles of his son's present home in 1771. He died there in 1848. He graduated in 1795 from Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and then studied the profession of medicine. He was a physician of real distinction and his eminence was such as to give him a permanent name in the medical profession of South Carolina. Practically all his life was devoted to the arduous service of his profession in his home community in Spartanburg County. But his fame went abroad and every year for many years young men were studying medicine at his home, which might be considered one of the earliest medical colleges of South Carolina. At Dickinson College Doctor Moore was a classmate of Roger B. Taney, who afterward became a figure in our national life as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Dr. Andrew B. Moore married Nancy Miller Montgomery..." History of South Carolina, Yates Snowden & H.G. Cutler, eds., Vol. 5, pages 192-193 (Chicago & New York: The Lewis Publishing Company 1920)

Doctor Moore married first (after 1820) Anna A. Maxwell by whom one child who died in infancy. On 3 April 1834 he married Nancy Miller Montgomery by whom four children were born.

"Dr. Andrew Barry Moore, father of Colonel [T. J.] Moore, was born within two miles of his son's present home in 1771. He died there in 1848. He graduated in 1795 from Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and then studied the profession of medicine. He was a physician of real distinction and his eminence was such as to give him a permanent name in the medical profession of South Carolina. Practically all his life was devoted to the arduous service of his profession in his home community in Spartanburg County. But his fame went abroad and every year for many years young men were studying medicine at his home, which might be considered one of the earliest medical colleges of South Carolina. At Dickinson College Doctor Moore was a classmate of Roger B. Taney, who afterward became a figure in our national life as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Dr. Andrew B. Moore married Nancy Miller Montgomery..." History of South Carolina, Yates Snowden & H.G. Cutler, eds., Vol. 5, pages 192-193 (Chicago & New York: The Lewis Publishing Company 1920)

Doctor Moore married first (after 1820) Anna A. Maxwell by whom one child who died in infancy. On 3 April 1834 he married Nancy Miller Montgomery by whom four children were born.