MOORE, Margaret 1805/1806 - 1872

MOORE, CALHOUN, RILEY

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 3/26/2006 at 16:23:37

"The Fairfield Ledger"
March 21, 1872
Page 3, Column 6

DIED, in Batavia, Iowa, Mar. 5, 1872, of consumption, Mrs. Margaret MOORE, in the 67th year of her age. Maiden name was CALHOUN, born in North Carolina; brought up in Dearborn County, Ind.. In 1848 removed with her family to Lowell, Iowa, where she was known as Mrs. RILEY, and more recently resided at Libertyville, where she was again left a widow by the death of her husband, Mr. Wm. MOORE. Died at the home of her son-in-law, Mr. R. B. MOORE. Her remains were interred in the family burying ground near Libertyville on the 6th inst.. J.M.M. (Burlington "Hawkeye" please copy.)

[Also posted to the Des Moines and Henry Counties' Obituaries boards]

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s).

Note: Buried in Fell Cemetery. Lowell, IA, is a ghost town in Jackson County, IA, and was about a mile north of the present-day business section of Maquoketa. Margaret has two gravestones: an individual one which gives her date of death as March 5, 1872, age 66-4-26, and she is on her husband William MOORE's stone but noted as dying March 5, 1873, with the same age. I believe the DOD on the joint stone to be incorrect based on the publication date of the obituary. For this reason, her year of birth calculates to 1805 using the DOD and age on her individual stone, but 1806 using the DOD and age on the joint stone.