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- Exact birth date extrapolated from a photo of his gravestone, which gives his death date of 8 Feb 1882 and appears (to our eyes) to also say "aged 79 Y. 2 M. 8 D."
From "Isaac Moore /Elizabeth Hickle Biography" (citation details below):
Around 1826, Isaac and Joseph walked from their father's home along Moore's Run, a small tributary of the Cacapon River in Hardy County, to look over that land in the wilderness of Guernsey County. Isaac and Elizabeth were settled in Guernsey County before 20 October 1827 when their first child was born. [...]
On 28 May 1831, less than a year after his marriage, Isaac's brother Joseph sold his share of the original 160 acres to Isaac for $400 and purchased 160 acres a few miles away near what is now Derwent for $450. By 1840 Isaac owned the 200 acres shown on the map in the Gallery, which reflects land holdings in 1855. His nearest neighbor was David Gander. Two of Isaac and Elizabeth's nine daughters and their only son married into the Gander family.
Among his many land transactions, Isaac sold the School Directors a small piece of land in 1836 for $20 and two half-acre tracts in 1860 and 1861 for $5 and $1. Both the Moore and Gander children attended the nearby one-room Garvin School shown in the Gallery. In 1863, Isaac sold 82 acres to David Gander. Late in the night of 23 July of that same year, Confederate General Morgan and his cavalry force raided the farms along the ridge road, where the Moores and Ganders lived, stealing horses and food on their way from Cumberland to what is now Pleasant City.
From the biography of their son Thomas Isaac Moore in History of Guernsey County, Ohio (citation details below):
Within a year after they came, their house was burned down, leaving them not even a change of clothing. The neighbors came and helped build a new house that was finished in a day, and were very kind in assisting them to make a new start, after the pioneer fashion of helping each other.
Isaac Moore and his wife were among the founders of the Bethel Methodist Church and he was active in church and school work, giving the ground on which the school was built, where his son and grandson both attended. He died in 1882, and was a man of considerable influence and much esteemed in the community in which he lived, and which he had helped to convert from a wilderness into a prosperous farming district.
Thomas I. Moore has lived all his life on the home farm. His recollections of early times are vivid, when deer, wild turkey and other game abounded, and the family lived in a log cabin with a puncheon floor, wore clothes homespun and woven from home-grown flax, and had not even andirons for the fireplace, but used stones instead. As an infant, he used to roll on the floor on a deer hide, and his mother would sometimes give him a piece of venison to suck, tying it by a string to his toe, so that he could not swallow it and strangle. The first lumber floor which was put in the cabin he remembers quite distinctly, as that was a great advance in prosperity and luxury.
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Nielsen Hayden genealogy
1802 - 1882 (79 years)
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