MOORE, Martha J. 1828 - 1901

MOORE, WELDAY, MCCLELLAND

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 3/26/2006 at 16:37:44

"The Fairfield Ledger"
August 21, 1901
Page 3, Column 2

BROUGHT TO HER OLD HOME FOR BURIAL.

A telegram was received in this city Sunday announcing the death of Mrs. Martha B. (sic - Martha J.) MOORE at Denver. Col.. The remains arrived here yesterday and will be interred in the Fell Cemetery in Liberty township today, where three generations of the MOORE family rest. Mrs. MOORE was the widow of Robert B. MOORE, who came to this county early in the '50s and was for many years a merchant at Libertyville and Batavia. She was about 73 years old.

After the death of her husband, late in the '70s (sic - 1877), she had brought to the old home for interment the bodies of three of her children, Fred, William Roland, and Nellie. Three children survive her, Mrs. W. W. WELDAY of Des Moines, Mrs. McCLELLAND of Montana, and James W. MOORE of Denver. Mrs. MOORE was a woman of superior ability and intelligence, a kindly neighbor and sympathizing friend....

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