James E. moore Pioneer

                                                                              Copyrighted 2005 for Clark county South Dakota and Gordon Meyer

James E. Moore "Pioneer" (1859/1948)

John Moore, James Moore's father was married Twice His first wife was Mary Ryerson born in Annapolis [county] NS. Canada,]  they had three girls: Elizabeth born Sept 24, 1846, Horatia born Aril 8, 1849 and Mary born August 14, 1852. 

John Moore's second wife was  Mary Jane Spechts, Born March 14, 1831, Spechts  Cove, Barton, [county] NS. Canada. Died August 20, 1886 Mr and Mrs John Moore and there Children, Ida Lena born Sept. 23,1856, Major Havelock born Dec 28, 1857, and died August 20, 1886, in a hunting accident.   James Edward born Aug 11, 1859, William Archibald born Aug 3, 1861, Orrin Wood, Born Aug 21, 1864,  John Hastings, Born Aug 24, 1867, Died August 20, 1868,less than a year old.  and is buried in Nova Scotia. Horace Jasper, born Aug 18, 1869 and Jennet (Jenny) Marcella, Born Jan 22, 1872. 

The Moore Homestead in Hague township as it looks today. 

The homestead is owned by Don Temple

The Moore's were involved in shipbuilding, James was a Caulker, and Havelock was a Seaman in Nova Scotia, but  sometime in the interim up until 1882,  James Moore (per Clark County  History)  served in the Canadian Army. In 1882 James Edward and Major Havelock traveled to Clark South Dakota, and homesteaded on two quarters of land in Section nine of Hague Township. Major H. homesteaded the NE 1/4 and James homesteaded the SE 1/4. To prove up on this property they had to live on it for a specified period of time to get a government Patent. The two brothers were quite ingenious, because they built a sod house on the line between the two quarters of land, half of the house was in the SE quarter and the other half of the house was in the NE quarter.  this way they had only one house to build and maintain, The second year that they lived in South Dakota,  Major H. Moore was accidentally killed in a hunting accident, his body was transported back to nova Scotia and is buried in the family plot. This happened Circa August 20, 1886. Major H.  willed his quarter, NE 1/4 of sec 9, to John Moore Father, of James and Major H, of Nova Scotia Canada. In 1891 John deeded this quarter of land to James.  James continued to live on and improve  the homestead. He built a frame house, planted trees. He also built a small barn and a Hog house.

At the county commissioners meeting on Oct 19,1885, Hague was organized as a civil township. At the township meeting that followed all of the officers were elected and James E. Moore was elected Clerk of Hague township. It was said that Hague township was never a part of the wild west, most of the people who settled here came from the east and other farming communities. They realized the need for local government, and schools for there children. These values followed them to South Dakota.   

Estella Hill, James Moore's first wife was born 1872, in Trenton Missouri, Her parents were Daniel Hill and Amelia Hersey. Daniel and Amelia were born in Michigan and also were married in there. After the war Daniel and Amelia moved to Missouri, and here three children were born to this union, the oldest was Osmer who was born in 1868, at Springfield MO, Estella and Elmer were born at Trenton MO, Estella in 1872, and Elmer in 1873.  Amelia Passed away in Missouri. Daniel Married Lucinda Miller Stafford a widow with two children. Daniel and Lucinda had one child Hollis born in 1878. Hollis passed away In 1902.

In 1895 James Married Estella Hill the daughter of Daniel Hill,  they had seven children. Amelia Mae, (Named after her Grandmother Amelia Hersey Hill) Dorothy, Mildred, Margaret, Florence, John and Edward. Mrs. Moore passed away in 1903 during childbirth, and John died in infancy they are buried in Hague township cemetery. Jim continued to live on the farm determined to keep the Family together. To help with this tremendous undertaking, he hired a lady by the name of Carrie Smith. Carrie moved to the farm with her two daughters Hazel Smith Gregory and Mabel Smith Christson, in 1903. Carrie and her family continued to live on the farm and on  June 21, 1909, Jim and Carrie were married at Bristol SD. In 1914 they moved to Redfield and lived until about 1917, when James and the girls moved back to the farm, Carried stayed in Redfield, and Edward (the youngest child of James and Estella) stayed with Carrie, for a short period of time, then he also moved to the farm. 

  This is Madeline Moore, Ray, Hess. This picture was taken May 31, 2005. Madeline is 89 years old. Madeline is the only child of Amelia Mae, the oldest  child of James E. Moore. 

Amelia Mae (Moore) (Ray) (Austin) the oldest child of James and Estella was married to Jack Ray probably around 1916, from this union was born a  girl, Madeline Maxine Ray, she was born on April 23, 1916, in Hannibal [county] MO. . Mae and Jack parted probably sometime before 1920, and  she married Blaine Austin in 1923.  Blaine Austin was born 1891 in Missouri.  Blane died in 1927. The census shows that Blaine, and Mae were probably on the farm about this time, because Mae was the telephone operator, and the telephone office was in the Moore house. The telephone office was moved to Willow Lake sometime in the early thirty's when it was bought out by another co.  Madeline was married to Alfred Hess,  in 1933, and from this union there were seven children born six boys and one girl.  Two of the children died real young, the girl, and the next child a boy. The girl's name was Wilma Maxie Hess and was born Jan 21 1934, ad died Feb. 25, 1940, and the Boy was James William Hess, born 20 April 1935, and died 22 of April 1935. 

Some of the older records have James Moore back on the farm in 1917 or 1918, the girls moved back with James  but I believe that Amelia Mae and Blaine Austin  lived on the homestead while James and Carrie and there families lived in Redfield.).  History has James back on the homestead from 1917 until around 1932. Blaine Austin died in 1927, Mae passed away on Feb. 1, 1935 of Pneumonia. After Amelia Mae's death  James went to Minneapolis and lived with youngest sister, Jennet Marcella,  until he passed away on the 12 of September 1948. James is buried at Mendota Heights Dakota county, Minnesota in the Acacia Park  OAK 11 4. 

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Trivia on the Moore Family

The Moore Family was represented on the Mayflower, but they had a tough  first year, as depicted by this information. This part of the family was hit with disaster along with the other first pioneers to come to the new world. 

MOORE, Jasper who died the first season.

MORE, Richard and brother; 2 boys places with the Elder Richard married and had at least 4 children. His brother died the first winter.

MORE, Elizabeth, wife of Edward Winslow who died the first winter. He left 2 children by a second marriage.

MORE, Ellen, a little girl placed in Mr. Winslow's family, sister of Richard MORE. She died soon after their arrival

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The Moore name has several different ways in the way it is spelled, some historians think that it came from the moors in northern Spain,  where the word "moor" signifying waste land, this  tended to obscure the fact that surnames spelled with corresponding appearances could have actually originated elsewhere 

It was noted in the previous article under this heading that the preponderance of place-names incorporating forms of the word "moor" and signifying heath and waste land tended to obscure the fact that surnames spelled with corresponding appearances could have actually originated elsewhere.