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Submitted: 9/7/15 • Approved: 9/9/15 • Last Updated: 9/12/15 • R1096906-G0-S3
PRIVATE
Company B 34 Arkansas Infantry
Civil War Confederate
February 20, 1835 - June 3, 1917
*Obituary (as written)
Prairie Grove Herald
Thursday, June 7, 1917
William Smith Moore was born near Greenville, Tennessee in February, 1834 and died Sunday morning, June 3, 1917, at the hospital in Lincoln, where he was operated upon a few days ago. He was of a large family of children, he being the oldest, only one of whom, Uncle Jerry Moore of Texas, survive him. He moved to Arkansas in December 1858, with Uncle John R. Moore, who settled at Cincinnati. Soon after he arrived here he became a partner in business, blacksmithing, wagon making and later at milling, with Uncle Rankin Pyeatt. He afterwards married Uncle Rankin’s daughter, Miss Kate. To this union were born six children, Lonnie, Melvin, Henry, Charlie, Bettie and Lucy. Only three, Charlie Moore and Mrs. Lucy Gould of Cane Hill and Mrs. Bettie Buchanan of Clovis, New Mexico survive him. He had been married three times. His second wife was a Miss Moore. To this union was born one child that died in infancy. His third and present wife was Miss Annie Crawford. Besides the ones mentioned above he leaves three grandsons and four granddaughters, and a large number of friends to mourn their loss. Mr. Moore is one of the principal men who has made Cane Hill into what it is, and more especially, what it has been. He has been an ardent supporter of the church, school, and general welfare of everything that has been for the betterment of our town and community. He has been in the milling business more than half a century. He has tided many over the hunger line. He professed religion early in life and joined the Presbyterian church. After moving to Arkansas he joined the Cumberland Presbyterian church and when this church united with the union he went with the union. Few men in the Arkansas Presbytery has done more and been more loyal to it than he. Until the last few years he rarely missed a Presbytery. In his home church he has been an elder and Sunday School teacher for a number of years, in which capacity he will be greatly missed. His funeral services were held in the College Chapel by the Rev. Dr. M.L. Gillespie of Fayetteville assisted by Revs. Gaither and Johnston. The interment was made in the cemetery near the College. His life was very clearly shown in the large attendance from all over the county upon his funeral and burial as well as the heaps of beautiful flowers planted on his grave.
*Obituary
State of Arkansas Confederate Pension Archives
Mrs. Annie Moore, widow of William S. Moore, who died June 3, 1917, filed Widow Application #29708 with the State Confederate Pension Board and was allowed a pension July 18, 1930, citing her husband’s service with Company B, 34th Arkansas Infantry.
Contributed on 9/7/15 by judyfrog
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