When Landon Clayborne Moore was born on 24 January 1860, in Township of Edgington, Rock Island, Illinois, United States, his father, John Clayburn Moore, was 36 and his mother, Thede Elvira Gray, was 26. He married Fora or Flora White on 16 March 1887, in Ainsworth, Washington, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Edgington, Rock Island, Illinois, United States for about 10 years and Reynolds, Rock Island, Illinois, United States in 1930. He died on 10 April 1944, in Davenport, Scott, Iowa, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Reynolds, Rock Island, Illinois, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1876: Rock Island, Illinois, United States
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
English: from Middle English more ‘moor, marsh, fen’ (Old English mōr), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in such a place, or a habitational name from any of various places called with this word, as for example Moore in Cheshire or More in Shropshire.
English (of Norman origin): ethnic name from Old French more ‘Moor’, either someone from North Africa or, more often, a nickname for someone thought to resemble a Moor. Compare Morrell and Moreau .
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English personal name More (Old French More, Maur, Latin Maurus), originally denoting either ‘Moor’ or someone with a swarthy complexion (compare Morrell , Morrin , Morris , and sense 2 above). There was a 6th-century Christian saint of this name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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