Our Roots Run Deep: The Cobby Moore Lineage

By Linda Whitfield-Spinner

As the old clich goes, you can't know where you are going until you know where you have been; knowing ones roots helps you to realize where you fit in life. The retelling of family stories from one person to the next is as old as time. Young and old alike find that discovering one's roots is exciting and personally rewarding. As a family, we share a common bond and kinship.

The information shared in this booklet was gathered through oral histories, written records, family Bibles, ancestry.com, state health records, family reunion booklets, and national census data.

Sources through interviews with family members tell us that Warren Moore (1841) and his parents Dock Moore and Edy Moore, arrived in the United States as slaves sometime around the midnineteenth century. The family initially lived and worked on the Albritton plantation in Pitt County, North Carolina. Warren Moore married Harriet Langley (1844). Cobby Moore (1878), the main patriarchal focus for this project, was one of Warren and Harriet's eighteen children.

The following pages contain sketches of the lives of Cobby Moore, his three wives, and each one of Cobby's eighteen children. These short vignettes describe the general characteristics of each family member and tell the story of a family's place in American society.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 28, 2015
• ISBN: 9781503585263

Linda Whitfield-Spinner

Linda Whitfield-Spinner, DMH, LCSW, is director of quality programs for a major health-care association in New Jersey, a university professor, and treasurer for the Medical History Society of New Jersey. She has a doctorate in Medical Humanities from Drew University, in Madison, New Jersey, and her published works include topics related to medical history in New Jersey and quality improvements in health care. She has a particular interest in genealogy and has done extensive research on her own family. This labor of love has led to the publication of this current book about her great-grandfather, Cobby Moore. She resides in Jackson, New Jersey, with her husband, son, and cockapoo, Moca.

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CONTENTS

Dedication

Cobby Moore’s Lineage

Cobby Moore

Lena Redding Moore

Sarah Ebron Little Moore

Hilda Bellamy Moore Drummond

Our Roots Run Deep The Cobby Moore Lineage

Willie Moore

Snowdie Moore Wilson

John Arthur Moore

Ella Moore Parker

James Roscoe Moore

Mary Magalene Moore

Augustus Moore

Cora Leggett Roberson

Ernest Augustus Moore

Julia Moore Tyson

Arlanda Moore

Warren Ormond Moore

Daisy Mae Moore Pippins

Ulysses Moore

Annias Moore

Accriah Moore

Luthelia Moore Andrews

Lillian Luvenia Moore Askew

The Moore Family Crest

Our Roots Run Deep

Endnotes

DEDICATION

This tribute to my ancestors was truly a labor of love. I would like to dedicate this OUR ROOTS RUN DEEP: The Cobby Moore Lineage book to our ancestors: Cobby, Lena, Sarah, Hilda and all of their children. Together they developed a wonderful protocol for successful living. The foundation of which evolved from a strong faith in God, a belief in the rewards of hard work, the importance of education, a sense of community, and an appreciation of family and friends.

I would also like to dedicate these pages to the pioneers who began the exploration of our family history in the late ‘70s; and organized the first Moore Family Reunion (1980). I will not name them all for fear I might leave someone out. However, I feel I must acknowledge Jerrol Wayne Moore and Vernestine Clemons Paige who did most of the research in those early years.

The information shared in this book was gathered through oral histories, written records, family bibles, ancestry.com, state health records, family Reunion booklets and national census data. On occasion, these sources provided conflicting information (i.e. misspelling of names and varying dates for births and deaths), however all dates presented in this project were researched thoroughly in an effort to validate the content. Additionally, the stories provided in this book were subjective accounts and were told through the eyes, ears and memories of family members, as they recalled past events.

It is my hope that you make this lineage book a part of your process to educate your family about your own family history and share that knowledge with generations to come.

Linda Whitfield-Spinner, D.M.H., LCSW

Great Granddaughter of Cobby Moore

COBBY MOORE’S LINEAGE

Biographical Sketches of Cobby Moore’s Children

Introduction

As the old cliché goes, you can’t know where you are going until you know where you have been, knowing ones roots helps you to realize where you fit in life. The re-telling of family stories from one person to the next