Elijah Moore

ELIJAH MOORE, farmer and miller, P. O. Claysville, a native of Bracken County, Ky., was born 1809. His father, Levi Moore, was born in Pennsylvania; he was a farmer and died aged eighty-two years; he was a Whig, and in his life-time held the office of Constable and Magistrate for several years. His wife, Jane Truax, was a native of Pennsylvania; she died aged forty years.

The subject of our sketch is among the most prominent men of his precinct; he is the owner of 600 acres of land, upon which he raises all the principal crops, making tobacco and stockraising a specialty; he also is the owner and manager of a grist mill. In 1870 he married Miss Parmelia Jackson. He is the father of ten children, viz: Nimrod, Ann S., Levi H., Susan H., Isaac C., John, Elijah, Stilwell S., Artinsia and Mary.

Mr. Moore has by his studied economy and business habits succeeded in gaining a good property, and bears a name and reputation which is beyond reproach.

History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 729.
[Harrison County] [Claysville Precinct]