History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 603.
[Scott County]  [Georgetown City and Precinct]

JOHN E. MOORE, deceased, was born in Scott County. He was quite young when
his parents died; he was educated in the common schools of Midway, and in
Georgetown College, after which he took a trip to Texas to see the county
and get an insight into business; after a stay of nine months, returning to
Scott County.  He taught school in "Turkey Foot Precinct" for six months;
having inherited a farm, he engaged in tilling the ground, reaping
successful harvests; he was quite an extensive stock raiser, dealing mostly
in horses and mules; his parents were also of Scott County. In 1859, in
Midway, he married; his death occurred in the Spring of 1870, aged
thirty-five years; his wife was Miss Mary Harper, a native of Woodford
County; she was a daughter of William Harper, a native of the same county,
and Anna (Whitley) Harper, a native of Lincoln County; her grandfather,
Col. William Whitley, was in the war of 1812, being a volunteer; he was
killed in the same battle as Tecumseh, and it is claimed that he is the
one who killed the Chief; her grandfather, Adam Harper was a native of
Virginia, and at an early day emigrated to Woodford County; he bought
1,000 acres of land, it then being worth but a dollar an acre; it has so
grown in value as now to be worth one hundred dollars per acres.  Her
brother, Frank Harper, is the owner of the prize horses "Tenbroek" and
"Longfellow" which were raised by her uncle, John Harper; "Tenbroek" ran
against time at Louisville in 1878, winning a silver cup valued at a
thousand dollars.  Mr. Moore, during his life, accumulated 178 acres of
land.  Mr. Moore, during his life, accumulated 178 acres of land.  Mrs.
Moore has six children living, two sons and four daughters; the family
worship with the Christian Church; she owns about 600 acres of land from
the old Harper estate.

Moore Harper Whitley
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Midway-Woodford-KY Lincoln-KY VA

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