When Edmund Moore was born in 1872, in North Carolina, United States, his father, Calvin Moore, was 39 and his mother, Caroline Moore, was 33. He had at least 3 sons with Annie Griggs Hancock. He lived in Mount Croghan, Chesterfield, South Carolina, United States for about 10 years and Mount Croghan Township, Chesterfield, South Carolina, United States in 1940. He was buried in Ruby, Chesterfield, South Carolina, United States.
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In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
April 21, 1878, around 206 African Americans boarde the ship Azor for Liberia.The cause for this is with the rise of political power, it makes life even harder for the African Americans.
South Carolina native, father to 13 children, and a local farmer, Anthony Crawford, is lynched on October 21, 1916, in Abbeyville, South Carolina. The lynching is followed after Crawford has an arguement with a white storekeeper.
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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