Henry Sheridan Moore

Brief Life History of Henry Sheridan

When Henry Sheridan Moore was born on 7 April 1869, in Endicott, Wetzel, West Virginia, United States, his father, Henry Freeman Moore, was 72 and his mother, Charlotte Griffith, was 36. He married Athenisa Belle Hall in 1891, in Wetzel, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Ohio, United States in 1943 and Jefferson, Ohio, United States in 1943. He died on 22 November 1943, in Rayland, Jefferson, Ohio, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Northern Cemetery, Smithfield, Jefferson, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

Henry Sheridan Moore
1869–1943
Athenisa Belle Hall
1870–1937
Marriage: 1891
Florida Mae Moore
1893–1980
Early Franklin Moore
1895–1968
Rev. William Brady Moore
1897–1956
Randall Herbert Moore
1900–1969
Metta Charlotte Moore
1902–1984
Ruth Moore
1904–1904
Carl Cobert Moore
1907–1993
Raymond Augusta Moore
1909–1982

Sources (22)

  • Henry S Moore, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Henry Sheridan Moore - Published information: birth-name: Henry Sheridan Moore
  • Aemyr Moore, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1870 · Giving all the right to vote

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

Name Meaning

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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