When Mary Catherine Moore was born on 10 October 1850, in Georgia, United States, her father, Joel Washington Moore, was 28 and her mother, Sarah Ann Hewell, was 27. She married Milton Pope Webb on 26 January 1871, in Elbert, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in District 197, Elbert, Georgia, United States in 1900 and District 202, Elbert, Georgia, United States for about 10 years. She died on 24 December 1922, in Elberton, Elbert, Georgia, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Elbert, Georgia, United States.
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Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
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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