Born: 1821 Kentucky
Brought to Morehouse Parish Louisiana
as a child by his mother, Rebecca Moore
David King Moore was as "interesting" a
fellow as Charles Alexander Worley.
Piecing the story together from census
records, we come up with the following:
David King Moore & Mary Parker
Children:
Julia Ann Moore b. 1846
Celia Ann Moore b. 1849
Martha Moore b. 1852
Mary Ann Moore b. 1859
David King Moore b. 1821 KY m. Abt.
1845 in Morehouse Parish Mary Parker
b. 1812 Bavaria, Germany
When David and Mary married, he was 25
and she was 33. We do not know Mary’s
maiden name. She had evidently been
married to a Parker and brought 3 children
into the marriage with David King Moore.
These children, and their ages at the time
of her marriage to David King Moore were:
Josiah 12, Rebecca 8, and Mary Jane 5.
It looks as if Mary Parker died between
1859 and 1865.
Mary Parker’s daughter, Rebecca Parker
would later marry her step-father’s younger
brother, Peter Moore.
David King Moore & Malissa "Unknown"
Children:
Letha Moore b. 1866
Stephen Moore b. 1868
Henrietta Moore b. 1869
William Joseph Moore b. 1870 (Grandpaw)
David King Moore married Abt.
1865 Malissa Angeline McCauley b. 1841, MS.
By this time, he had begun to go by his middle
name and shaved a couple of years off his
age. Malissa was 20 years younger than he
was. Malissa died between 1870 and 1880.
David King Moore and Malissa’s youngest
child, "Joe" Moore, was my g-grandfather.
In the 1880 census, a 23 year old Francis
Cain is listed as David King Moore’s step-
daughter. I have not yet determined if she
was Malissa's younger sister, Frances Catherine
McCauley - perhaps married to a nearby Cain and
now separated. If that was the case, then David and
Melissa would have taken her in.
It is interesting to note that Angeline
(as she was called in the Moore family)
named her sons Stephen and William Joseph.
Her father was William S. McCauley, Sr. and
the brother just older than she was William J.
McCauley. Perhaps she named her sons for her
father and brother. Her daughters were Letha
and Henrietta. Perhaps these names will lead
us to her mother, Charity "Unknown.
I had to laugh… by the census of 1880,
David King Moore had shaved two MORE
years off his age and had become
King D. Moore.
David King Moore married Lizabeth Marsh
Sept. 13, 1881
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