MOORE, Clara Alma (Gillaspy)

COUNTY NEWS.

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CHETWYND.

Mrs. Samuel Moore, who has been sick for over a year, died at her home Friday evening and was buried Saturday evening at First Mt. Pleasant. Mrs. Moore was a good neighbor, a kind wife and a loving mother. She was loved by old and young, always having a pleasant smile and gentle word. She was followed to her last resting place by the family, relatives and a large company of neighbors and friends.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, August 24, 1900,
Volume XLI Number 8, page 4 column 3&4

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OBITUARY.

Mrs. Clara A. Moore, wife of Samuel Moore, was born January 7, 1863, and died August 10, 1900, aged 37 years, 7 months and 3 days.

She was the daughter of the late Amos Gillaspy. Mrs. Moore was taken with a violent attack of grippe over a year ago and never regained her health afterward. Other complications rapidly followed, making her an invalid for months. The best of medical aid was secured and nothing neglected to give relief and restoration to health again, but without effect.

Samuel Moore and Miss Clara A. Gillaspy were married Feb. 18, 1883. To the union was added Amos R., who died, aged 5 months, Ira E., Everet, who died at the age of three years, Bradford F. and James R. The com­panion and three sons are left to mourn their loss.

Mrs. Moore joined the Christian church at Mt. Carmel over twenty-five years ago and has during her life been a zealous Christian and one who has done much good in the church, the neigh­borhood and family circle. Her zeal and care of the home has been the rearing of the three sons, teaching them the great lessons of duty, honesty, love and obedience. Her effort has produced good results and those sons, under the care of the good mother, are the hap­piness of the lonely companion. She is gone but her life and influence are bearing good results in many homes. A kind word and a smile greeted every one she happened to meet; a tender heart all the while beating anxiously for the poor and distressed; ready to help the needy and encourage the weak. A true and dutiful wife, a loving mother, a most faithful Christian and a worthy neighbor is gone to rest, but the harvest was ripe and the gathering of the spirit to Him who gave it is a loss on earth; a gain in heaven. She is gone, but her good life and noble works are precious seed as a model to give encouragement; to strive, by her example to enter the golden gate and live forever with the blessed ones around the throne of God.

She was buried at First Mt. Pleasant, followed by a large company of rela­tives and friends, Cornelius McFadden conducting the ministerial ceremony in his usual able admonition and touching remarks.

Mrs. Moore leaves one brother and two sisters: Edward and Miss Ola Gil­laspy and Mrs. Willie Adams. She died in the faith and during her long illness she murmured not, but with Christian fortitude held faithful ’till called from labor to rest.

B. F. K.

Link to Clara Alma (Gillaspy) Moore’s grave

Note: Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Johnson County, Certificate and Record of Death, page 159 records that Clara Alma Moore died at about 4 o’clock p. m. on 10 Aug 1900 in Hensley from heart failure, caused by tuberculosis of two years’ duration, aged thirty-seven years, seven months and three days. She was female, white, married and a housewife. Her father’s name was Amos Gillaspy and her mother’s maiden name was Elizabeth Burgett, both born in Johnson County. The informant was R. Bryan. Anna was buried in 1st Mt. Pleasant on 11 Aug 1900, Forsyth & Forsyth, undertaker.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson