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Elizabeth Margaret “"Betsy"” Currie/Curry Moore

1835 – 1884

Birth1835
Death1884
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James F. Moore was born in 1828 or 1829 somewhere in Alabama and his parents are unknown. About 1857, he married Elizabeth Margaret Currie/Curry. She was born about 1835, possibly in Alabama. (The name Currie or the variation, "Curry" is Scottish and has been spelled either way by the family or by others, so that wise researchers must be alert for either spelling.) They are living in Scott County, Mississippi on the census of 1860, with their first child, Annie Margaret Moore, b. abt 1858, in Scott County. They are living near Elizabeth's Currie relations. Elizabeth's parents were John Currie (whose father, Archibald, was born in Scotland), and Nancy Johnson. By 1870, following the Civil War, James and Elizabeth and possibly Currie relatives were living in the Livingston Community of Polk County, Texas and in addition to Annie had added three more children: Caroline, Bethana, and George. By 1877, they were in McLennan County, Texas, where their daughter, Annie married her first husband of four, John Paul Shaw, Feb. 10, 1877. (He died very soon after they married. Burial unknown). By 1880, the James F. Moore family and the Alexander Curry/Currie families were living next door to each other in Milam County, Texas. 1880 Census, Milam County, TX, ED 105, Stamped pg 320, sheet 32, Prec. 5, lines 44-50 Dwellings #8 & #9. (**Line 24 appears a Talusian (?) Blagg, 23, wks on farm b. Ark. One of James's daughters, Bettie/Bethana, later marries a Blagg).: **8/8 Curry, Alexander M (?), 52, farmer, b. SC Scotland, NC Curry, Martha, 45, wife, b. MS -- -- (Martha A. Cottingham Curry. Martha's daughter, Margaret J. Brown & family are on pg. 40, same census) **9/9 Moore, James F., 52, b. AL GA SC Moore, Elizabeth, 45, b. AL SC SC Moore, Mary F., 14, dau, at home, b. MS AL AL (Mary Ann Moore) Moore, Bethana, 12, " " b. MS AL AL Moore, George 10, works farm, b. TX AL AL Moore, James 5, b. TX AL AL (*Unknown what happened to this child. He may have died young). * Not appearing in the Moore household is oldest daughter Annie, 21, is married to Thomas Slater & living with his parents, Lee Co. Texas, ED 94, sh 71A lines 21-31, DW280 FN 281) James's wife, Elizabeth died before November 1885, burial place unknown, in Milam county. Alexander Curry died before November 29, 1885, when his widow Martha A. (Cottingham), married James F. Moore, the widower of Elizabeth Margaret Curry Moore, on that date in Milam County, Texas, Book # 3, p. 391. Marriage performed by M. T. Sealy, Minister of the Gospel.

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