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John Moore
(1790-1873)
Betsey Howe
(1791-1864)
Isaac Tabor Spaulding
(1818-1896)
Eunice Wells
(1823-1884)
Horace Moore
(1819-1887)
Mary Eunice Spaulding
(1844-1932)

John Franklin Moore
(1883-1972)

 

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1. Agnes Elvira Bennett

John Franklin Moore

  • Born: 20 Sep 1883, Crown Point, Essex County, New York
  • Marriage (1): Agnes Elvira Bennett on 27 Oct 1909 in Warrensburg, Warren County, New York
  • Died: 15 May 1972, Chestertown, Warren County, New York at age 88
  • Buried: Brant Lake Cemetery in Horicon, New York

bullet   Cause of his death was died in his sleep - cause unknown.

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bullet  General Notes:

1900 census Crown Point, NY
Hiram Fitch60 b. Dec 1839 NY
Mary E Fitch55 b. Aug 1844 NY
Mary E Moon/Moore25 b. June 1874 NY
John F Moon/Moore16 born Sept 1883

per 1905 census Crown Point, NY was living in HH of sister Mary and her husband Will Chase.

11 May 1910 Horicon, Warren County, NY John Moore age 26 NY; shirt ironer in laundry Agnes L. Moore 23 NY

US WWI Draft Card - 12 September 1918
SER # 911 Ord # 197
John Franklin Moore of Horicon, Warren County, NY
age 34 yrs DOB 20 September 1883; white and native born
Occ: laborer for American Graphite Co. in Graphite, Warren County, NY
Nearest relative: Agnes E. Moore - wife of Horicon, NY
HT: med - Build: med; eyes brown and hair brown

1920 Horicon, Warren County, NY John Moore age 36 NY; laborer in lead mine Agnes Moore age 32 NY Arthur Ivan Moore age 9 NY Mary Moore age 6 NY

1930 Horicon, Warren County, NY John F. Moore age 46 NY; laborer [odd jobs] Agnes E. Moore age 43 NY Arthur I. Moore age 19 NY Mary A. Moore age 16 NY

Recollections of Jane O'Connor Foster: Known to my brothers , my sister & I as "Pa" he was delivered by a Dr. George Page in Crown Point, NY in the year 1883. His mother who was almost 40 yrs old at the time was not pleased to be having another baby at her age..this was her 5th child and only living son..two daughters preceded him. Awaiting John were two older sisters, Nel (by his mother's first husband) and "Mame" (the first child of this marriage to Horace Moore. Horace was by now 64 yrs old having been a single "man" for some 55 years.) Very little is known of my grandfather's childhood except that his mother took him frequently to church. She was said to have had little patience with him and regarded most of his behavior as wicked and predicted that he would probably wind up in "prison". Undoubtably this necessitated the frequency of his visits to church. His father died when he was only 4 and the family became quite destitute..once a circus came to town but there was no money to go..times were very hard for quite a long time. His sister married to a farmer (Will Chase) and he went to work on the farm. Shortly after this he found work in a shirt factory in Warrensburg, NY and it was there that he met his future wife Agnes Bennett .She and her sister Rose from Horicon, NY had gone to work in the shirt factory. In 1887 John and Agnes were married in Warrensburg in the Methodist church. They then went to live with her parents (Jeptha and Ann Bennett) in Brant Lake (Horicon) on the family farm (Al Bean Road). It was here that their two children were born Arthur Ivan and Mary Ann. After the birth of his daughter, John and his friend Tommy Bolton built a log house (the BobGene Camp later purchased by the Lewis Family from the city and named for their two sons Robert and Eugene Lewis) on the north side (back side) of Brant Lake. He and Agnes and their two children lived there for about 6 years. There were no close neighbors and wild animals were abundant on the property including bear. John worked in the graphite mines in Graphite, NY near Ticonderoga. Because of the distance he lived there all week in a boarding house with other men and came home only for the weekend. His transportation was a bicycle..few people owned automobiles then and he never did learn to drive. He would leave work on a Friday night and cross over Hague mountain on a dirt road. The return trip would be made late on Sunday after dark and it was necessary for him to mount a kerosene lamp on the front of the bike, not so much to see where he was going, but to scare away the wildlife. Spending so much time at the mines he was able to get to know his fellow workers quite well. One time a man came to work who preferred to be a "loner". The men knew him as "John" but he worked in silence..even took his lunch break away from the others. It was not until much later that they learned his last name...Dillinger...and he was hiding from the law... Agnes was left alone much of the time with two small children and so she talked John into buying a place where there would be neighbors. In June of 1920 they purchased a house at the "foot of the lake" within walking distance of the village of Horicon. (I now refer to this house as Ivan Moore's house for their son, my Uncle Ivan, eventually took up residence there). In 1921 the Graphite Mines closed and John found work with Niagara Mohawk Power Co in Chestertown. After this he obtained work locally, across the lake , at the Untermeyers. This necesitated rowing across the lake from where the family lived to the other shore where the Untermeyer Farm was. My mother tells how her mother (John's wife Agnes), stood on the shore line on the back side of the lake and blew a whistle, thus making a sound he could follow, so he would row in a straight line to the other shore line. At night when it was dark he could look for the house lights as there were no neighbors then. About this time he joined the Masons and became a member of the Glendale Lodge in Pottersville. He attended the meetings on a regular basis and wore the masonic signet ring which had a large red stone and the masonic symbol on it. Mary Ann married in the Fall of 1933 and moved to Cohoes, NY where her husband (A F O'Connor) had a job. Several months later they returned to Chestertown to care for her mother (Agnes) who was now mentally ill. Within months it was necessary to commit her to a state institution where she lived for the remainder of her life. (involutional meloncholy..a state of paranoia brought on by menopause was the diagnosis)) Now with John (her father) and Ivan (her brother) alone in the house in Brant Lake, Mary and her husband Frank moved in. Mary kept house for the three men who were all working. In January of 1935 a son (Nicholas) was born to Mary and Frank. In February Ivan married and brought his bride home to live and Mary and Frank moved to a house in Chestertown known as the Charlie Baker House. John decided he would like his own place and purchased a small building in the village of Horicon which was located near the dam and once served as the office of a grist mill. With the help of friends he moved it to the eastern most portion of his property and after some remodeling was able to establish his home there. (He lived there until the summer of 1941 when he went to live with his daughter and son-in-law permanently). Nick, his first grandchild, spent a great deal of time with him in "the shanty". He and Nick kept batchelor's quarters and the nightly entertainment was one of "Pa's" famous stories. He had a way of bringing a human side to animals and even named them.."Hunchman Hog"..."Sammy Crow" amd many others...the nights were very dark and there was no electricity in the "shanty" and eventually young Nicholas grew too scared to stay there. In March of 1941 the family relocated to Carthage, NY for Frank had taken work at Pine Camp (later called Camp Drum) an army camp and John came to work there also. By summer the family was back in Chestertown where they moved into a downstairs flat on Thieriot Avenue. John and Frank found work in the local veneer mill. In March Frank joined the Navy to avoid being drafted into the army..he felt at home around the water and knew the infantry would be rough. (He was still a British citizen). John became the primary supporter of the family as dependents' checks were not reliable from the government and not enough to feed and clothe the family which now included a mother and 4 small children along with John. John continued to raise a large vegetable garden and each spring he would plow up a large tract of land in the fields beyond where the house stood. It was land belonging to a farmer who did not use it for anything. He borrowed a horse from the farmer and hitched him up to a hand- held plow. With reins thrown over his shoulder, both hands on the plow and some "gee" and "ha" and a lot of clucking sounds, he and that horse dug deep furrows in the soil...the rich brown earth laid aside as they walked along and I can still see it vividly in my mind. He would then rake and prepare the soil with nothing more than a hoe and hand rake. After seeding and planting the entire patch it was up to Mother Nature to provide the right amount of sunshine and rain. The morning after Frank was discharged from the Navy....... right after breakfast..... the whole family walked to the garden...it was the very first thing that Frank wanted to do....see his father-in-law's wonderful garden. Frank soon took a job at the local hardware store as a steamfitter and plunber and John continued working at the veneer mill until he was in his 60s. In the summer of 1951 when he was about 68 he became very ill.( We didn't know it but he had cancer.)Finally when he could no longer get out of bed he agreed to go to the hospital where a surgeon (Dr. Tom Cummins) performed a resection of the small bowel to remove the growth. He remained there for 40 days during which time he was given twelve pints of blood...all donated by friends, relatives and neighbors. By late October he felt well enough to come home and begin a long period of recuperation. Over the next fifteen years he worked part time at a variety of jobs..sexton of the local church..clearing brush for the County each Spring... and of course every summer he would plant and care for a huge vegetable garden. In his lifetime he knew five grandsons and three granddaughters. He loved Christmas and long before December he would begin buying toys. I think he wanted to make up for his sparse childhood. Soon there were great grandchildren and they also took to calling him "Goozle" a nickname give him by his daughter Mary when she was young. It seems that once he had read her a story about a man with a "goozle pin", a sort of club which was used to punish people. He would tell her to be good or he would get the "goozle pin" after her and she took to calling him "Goozle". The grandchildren quickly picked up on it. On May 15, 1972 he died peacefully in his sleep at home in his own bed of "cardiac failure". He was not quite 89. Several years before his death his daughter and son-in-law had purchased some plots in the Brant lake Village Cemetery and one day Frank took John to show him where the plots were. The cemetery is located on the side of a hill and the plots they bought are at the very top of the hill and look out over the rest of the cemetery which faces a nearby mountain. A small stream (an outlet of Brant lake) ambles along below. John stood for a long time on the spot which would serve as his final resting place before he said... "It's a good spot...I like it here.." .....and here he lies for all eternity.

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bullet  Events

• Alt. Birth: Alt. Birth, 20 Sep 1883.


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John married Agnes Elvira Bennett, daughter of Jeptha Mahlon Bennett and Ann Rebecca Hemenway, on 27 Oct 1909 in Warrensburg, Warren County, New York. (Agnes Elvira Bennett was born on 25 Feb 1887 in Horicon, Warren County, New York, died on 7 Sep 1964 in Marcy, Oneida County, New York and was buried in Brant Lake Cemetery in Horicon, New York.). The cause of her death was Congestive heart failure.


bullet  Marriage Notes:

Per the bible of Agnes Elvira Bennett Moore she and John Franklin Moore were married at 8 PM in the evening at the Methodist Church in Warrensburg,NY. She also made note it was a Thursday. I(Jane O'Connor Foster) have the original marriage certificate and it states:

This certifies that John F. Moore and Agnes Bennett

of Crown Point, NY of Warrensburg, NY

were by me united in Holy Matrimony
according to the ordinance of God and
the laws of New York at Warrensburg
on the 27th day of October in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine

Witnesses E. J. Guernsey
minister of the gospel
Ida Bennett



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