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From: "Linda Katherine Jenkins-Wensel" <>
Subject: Bio for Charles MOORE, including JAMES, COPENHAVER
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 13:11:14 -0700


Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.
Monroe County Biographical Sketches, Richland Township, p. 634-635

Charles MOORE, stock-raiser and farmer, was born in Woodford County, Ky.,
April 10, 1814,
and is a son of Charles and Nancy (JAMES) MOORE, natives of Virginia, and of
English
extraction, who moved to Kentucky, where Mr. MOORE died, and whence Mrs.
MOORE
returned to Virginia, and there married Joseph COPENHAVER, after which they
removed to this
County, in 1832, where Mrs. COPENHAVER died in 1835. Our subject was reared
to industry,
and began to make his own way when seventeen years old by clearing and
chopping. June 3,
1835, he married Miss Elizabeth COPENHAVER, a union honored by eighteen
children, of which
number are living - Tillman H., Taylor S., William, James M., Charles L.,
Clara L., Lizzie and
Carrie. After marriage, Mr. MOORE farmed on rented land, and afterward
procured eighty acres
of his own, which he improved. He was diligent, economical, and made sure
headway, adding to
his possession until he owned 600 acres, which he sold in 1852, and
purchased his present place
of 240 acres, now one of the best farms in the township. Mr. MOORE is one
of the most
substantial farmers and citizens of these parts, and is in politics an
active Republican. He and wife
are members of honor of the Methodist Episcopal Church.


Data Entry Volunteer - Linda Jenkins Wensel

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