Elihu Moore

MOORE, WHITTLESY, SAULSBURY

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 7/29/2002 at 20:49:18

Elihu Moore purchased his present farm, on sections 2 and 3, of S. C. Whittlesy, in 1865. Mr. Whittlesy entered the farm as government land. Mr. Moore was the first resident on the farm. He is a brother of William Moore, of this township, and was born in Carroll county, Indiana, in 1836. He went to Missouri when twenty-one years of age, where he lived about three years, coming to Butler county in July, 1861. His farm contains 160 acres.
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His wife was Eliza Saulsbury, born in Indiana. They have seven children – Emma, John, Cora, Jesse, Adda, Elizabeth, and Alta. Mr. Moore’s father, Jonathan Moore, died at the residence of his son, September 18, 1878.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 552