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Submitted: 8/26/21 • Approved: 8/29/21 • Last Updated: 9/1/21 • R1387071-G0-S3
SECOND SERGEANT
Company C Captial Bell's Company
Civil War Confederate
1840 - May 19, 1897
*Obituary
Benton County Democrat
Thursday, May 27, 1897
(from The Fayetteville Sentinel) Hon. Elias B. Moore, late editor of the Fayetteville Gazette, which suspended publication a few weeks ago, died last Thursday evening. Mr. Moore came with his parents to this city some years before the war and he was postmaster here when the State seceded. He served with credit in the Confederate Army during the war and soon after its close joined with a younger brother in founding the Fayetteville Democrat. They continued its publication until 1884 when it was sold to the present publisher, Mrs. S.E. Marrs. In the meantime Mr. Moore served several terms in the legislature and in 1884 was elected Secretary of State when he moved to Little Rock. He held this position two terms, retiring in January 1889. He returned to Fayetteville about a year ago in very poor health and his friends had hoped our salubrious climate would restore his old-time vigor; he had been mingling among his friends up to about a week ago and few were prepared for the news of his death. His wife died a few years ago and a son and two daughters survive him. He had many attached friends throughout the State who will drop a tear to his memory. He was buried in Evergreen cemetery Friday afternoon. Rev. N.M. Ragland officiating.
*Source: Sons of Confederate Veterans, Washington County, Arkansas 2009
Compiled by William W Degge
Contributed on 8/26/21 by judyfrog
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