With four children in tow, Martha Jane and Joseph Moore left Greene County, eventually settling in Canehill (Cane Hill), Arkansas, a small town with several institutions of higher learning and three Presbyterian churches, each a different denomination. Family papers credit Martha Jane with influencing that choice. (It helped that both husband and wife had relatives there.)
Raised as Cumberland Presbyterians, they first worshiped with that congregation in Canehill, before eventually uniting with Cane Hill Presbyterian, which belonged to the mainstream denomination.
The couple believed in education and saw to it that most children were educated beyond Canehill. One became a dentist, another, an IRS District Director, several were farmers, and one son had a career as a mail agent. A daughter owned a boarding house in Fayetteville, AR; another was a railroad bookkeeper in Oklahoma.
For the first Thanksgiving in their new state, Martha Jane and Joseph inaugurated the Moore-Ross reunion, held on the same spot for more than 100 years. In the second half of the 20th century, it was featured on PBS, the public television system.
(Susan Council 50000338)
With four children in tow, Martha Jane and Joseph Moore left Greene County, eventually settling in Canehill (Cane Hill), Arkansas, a small town with several institutions of higher learning and three Presbyterian churches, each a different denomination. Family papers credit Martha Jane with influencing that choice. (It helped that both husband and wife had relatives there.)
Raised as Cumberland Presbyterians, they first worshiped with that congregation in Canehill, before eventually uniting with Cane Hill Presbyterian, which belonged to the mainstream denomination.
The couple believed in education and saw to it that most children were educated beyond Canehill. One became a dentist, another, an IRS District Director, several were farmers, and one son had a career as a mail agent. A daughter owned a boarding house in Fayetteville, AR; another was a railroad bookkeeper in Oklahoma.
For the first Thanksgiving in their new state, Martha Jane and Joseph inaugurated the Moore-Ross reunion, held on the same spot for more than 100 years. In the second half of the 20th century, it was featured on PBS, the public television system.
(Susan Council 50000338)
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MARTHA
JANE
MOORE
BORN
SEP.20.1852
DIED
JAN.16.1910
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righteous when
they die.
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