Milton Louis Moore 1899-1920

MOORE

Posted By: Volunteer - Karen DaPra
Date: 10/12/2002 at 05:37:41

MILTON MOORE

[Milton] Louis Moore, only [can't read] and Mrs. J. E. Moore, was born at Lincoln, Nebraska, January 13, 1899. His elementary education was received in the Fayette and Bonaparte public schools, he having finished the eighth grade at Bonaparte in 1912. The first two years of his high school work were spent in the Fayette high school and the last two in the Spring Valley, Minn., high school, graduating from the latter in 1916. His entire high school course was taken under the administration of his father's superintendency.

With his parents he moved to Minneapolis, Minn., in the fall of 1916, where he entered the University of Minnesota as a student, and took three semesters of collegiate work in that institution. In February, 1919, he came to the farm near Bonaparte to help his father carry on farm operations for that crop season. In this, as in all else, he was a diligent, helpful, loyal, cheerful assistant.

Feeling that his country needed his more immediate service, he enlisted and was inducted into Co. [cut off] S.A.T.C. at Iowa State College [at] Ames, Iowa, October 12, 1918. He received honorable discharge from this service on Dec. 18, 1918. During this period of training serv[ice] he was assigned responsible duti[es] and that he discharged his tr[cut off] well is attested by the following paragraph taken from a letter written Dec. 10, 1918, to his parents [by] his Commanding Officer:

"As his Commanding Officer, I [am] proud of him. He has done his d[uties] well. I, and his comrades, will [cut off] him good-bye with deep regret, [cut off] wish him every success after he returns home, that spot in every man's heart no other place can fill."

Home was the dearest spot [on] earth to Milton and he spent time there except while in service away at school. It was one of [his] chief delights to entertain [cut off] friends--of whom he had many--[cut off] his home. He was an ardent lo[ver] of music. While a student in [cut off] University of Minnesota, he wa[s a] member of the University Symph[ony] Orchestra, also a member of [the] Military Band of Iowa State Coll[ege] at Ames.

During the summer of 1919, [cut off] the counsel of his parents, he pra[ctically] managed and operated [cut off] home farm. Having unqualif[iably] chosen agriculture for his voca[tion] he entered Iowa State College [rest of obit is cut off]

(Photocopy of this obit is located on page 49 of Obit Book A found in the Van Buren County, Iowa Genealogical Society's collection at the Keosauqua Public Library in November 1999. Name and date of newspaper not given. Handwritten on the side is "died of pneumonia 30 Jan 1920.")

I am NOT related to this person and am posting it for those who may find him/her in their family tree.

[Original Post 14 January 2000]