MOORE, Mansfield
Date of death: 25 Jan 1906 Hensley Township, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 2, 1906
OBITUARY
Mansfield Moore was born in Henry county Kentucky March 29, 1827, died January 25, 1906, aged 78 years, 9 months, 26 days. Was married October 12, 1848 to Evaline Kemp. To them were born: David, Sarah E., Willie, Mrs. Eliza Taylor, Mrs. Harriet A. Weddle, Jas. A., and Mrs. Emaline Price. His companion died August 31, 1868; Willie, March 7, 1859; Sarah E., May 6, 1876; and Emaline, August 1, 1899. He married Sarah Jane Choat, September 5, 1892, who with Eliza, Harriet A., David and James A. survive him.
His parents moved to Indiana when he was five years old and entered a homestead in Morgan county a few miles north of Morgantown on which Mr. Moore was raised and where he lived 32 years, when he sold the home and bought and settled in Hensley township. There he lived till his death, 41 years.
Besides his companion and four children he leaves 16 grand-children. Uncle Mansfield united with the M. E. church over 56 years ago and during his life has been a leader in his church. He was elder class leader and in the prayer meetings, always took the lead. As a pioneer he helped clear off the heavy forest. Not only a farmer but he was a man of mechanical skill and worth. At his home he had a blacksmith shop and with his brawny strong arm wielding his heavy hammer often he fashioned out of iron, the tire, the wedge, the ax, the plow and every tool required by the citizen of the smith. After a barrel of toil breasting the winter’s blast: the summer’s scorching rays and all the hardships of a new unimproved country, he has finished the battle of life of a duration of over three quarters of a century and has left a legacy of worth.
He died with the satisfaction of having lived to see his dear ones following in his foot steps and profiting by his care, from the cradle to manhood and womanhood. Prof. Jas. A. Moore, his younger son has , with zeal and aim, struggled from a farmer’s boy, raised to toil in all kinds of labor to reach the high position as teacher and is known as one of our state educators, whose teaching in common and high schools has been of much worth in preparing and equipping and sending out many brilliant young men and women into the fields of profession and enterprise in Indiana.
Submitted by Lois Johnson