Typed by: Theresa Carhart
Cornelius Moore Anding
Surnames: ANDING, WATKINS, MOORE, WILLIAMS, BROWN, WHITEHOUSE,
LITTLEJOHN, DUBBELING, BAYLESS, DIRICKSON, GEYER, YOUNGBLOOD, SCOTT, PHILIPPS,
SCHULTZ, REICHENBACH, OLIVER, BARGANIER, PRICE
Cornelius Moore
Anding (called "Moore"), b August 30, 1904 at Rosebud, Falls County, Texas --
was the youngest of four children of Martin Alexander and Julia Moore (Watkins)
Anding, II, and a maternal grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte and Carolina (Moore)
Watkins, and great grandson of Cornelius Moore, who came to Milam County, Texas
ca 1851, leaving his family in Alabama. He subsequently moved to Wilderville,
Falls County, Texas.
On August 22,
1923, Moore was married to Lela May Williams, b August 2, 1907 in Ardmore,
Oklahoma, d September 23,1971 -- a daughter of Orange Derwood Williams, born in
Falls County, and his wife, Margaret Catherine (Brown) Whitehouse, the widow of
Charles J. Whitehouse who had a son, Millard Fillmore Whitehouse, b August 15,
1897.
Moore is a
farmer and rancher in the Wilderville Community of Falls County, and resides in
the built ca 1882 by his maternal grandparents, N. B. and Caroline (Moore)
Watkins. He has always been interested in community and public affairs, both in
school and in the county.
Moore and Lela
(Williams) Anding had three children:
Julia Catherine
Anding, b August 8, 1925 at Wilderville, married first on June 29, 1944 to
Nathan Pierce Littlejohn, b June 24 in Shantung, China -- a son of Reverend John
T. and Marguerite (Pierce) Littlejohn. They had Natalie Anna Littlejohn b
November 27, 1947, who married Andre Jean Dubbeling and had Paul Moore Dubbling,
b May 1972 in Austin, Texas. Natalie is a lawyer at Reynold's Aluminum Company
in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Julia Catherine married second in Roswell, New
Mexico on May 25, 1953 to Wayne Winton Bayless, Jr., b in Cassville, Missouri --
son of Jodge W. W. and Nettie Blanche (Dirickson) Bayless, Sr. of Tulsa,
Oklahoma. They had: Wayne Winton Bayliss (sp), III, b June 13, 1954, in Hobbs,
New Mexico; Maureen May Bayless, b October 5,1957 in Mercedes, Texas; and Mary
Blanche Bayless, b November 23, 1964 in Houston, Texas.
Betty Jo Anding,
b March 1, 1927 at Rosebud, married October 20, 1951 to Carl Paul Geyer, III, b
October 1, 1921 in Marlin, Texas -- a son of Carl Paul and Laeta Grace
(Youngblood) Geyer, Jr. They had two children: Betty Jill Geyer, b August 7,
1953 at Big Spring, Texas, who married January 10, 1974 to Calvin Gregory Scott
and had James Gregory Scott, b July 13, 1979; and Paula Moore Geyer, b February
9, 1956 at Mineral Wells, Texas.
Cornelius Moore
Anding, Jr. b March 5, 1933, married on August 8, 1952 at Franklin, Robertson
County, Texas to Frances Lee Philipps, b August 4, 1936 -- a daughter of Edgar
and Agnes Emma Bertha (Schultz) Philipps, of New Baden, Texas. They have Laura
Lee Anding, b September 19,1955 at Longview, Texas, who married June 27, 1981 to
John Harrison Reichenbach; and Cornelius Moore Anding, III, b July 1, 1957 in
Dallas, who married August 23, 1980 to Cindy Lee Oliver.
After Lela's
death, Moore was married second to Mrs. Lorene (Barganier) Price, who had four
children by her marriage to William Archer Price, Jr.; William Eugene, James
Earl, Virginia Elizabeth and Mary Ann Price.
Moore and Lorene
made their in the house built in 1882 by his grandparents.
Correction
submitted by: Laeta Frances Barkley Dieterich
Betty Jo Anding. Her husband's mother's name should be
spelled LAETA.
Copyright Permission granted to
Theresa Carhart for printing these bio of these Falls County Families to this
Web page
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission, page 10, column 2 and page 11 column 1
Member of Falls County Historical Commission