Rev. Warner Moore was born John Warner Moore on June 12, 1845 in Pulaski, Giles Co., TN to Smith William Moore (Nov. 1, 1818 - Sept. 2, 1880) and Mary Ordalia Yates Moore (Dec. 29, 1820 - Jul. 10, 1906).
Warner was in school at Southern University at the start of the Civil War, and he left to enlist. He joined the artillery unit Stanford's Battery as a Private. Upon enlistment, he had the choice of being known as John W. Moore or Warner Moore. He chose to be known as Warner, and he continued using only one given name for the rest of his life. During the war he was supposedly wounded thrice, though there have been no records found to validate these claims. Stanford's Battery served at the battles of Shiloh TN, Perryville KY, Murfreesboro / Stones River TN, and Chickamauga GA. During the course of the war, Warner achieved the rank of Corporal.
During his service, Warner felt called to preach, and pursued his studies after the war becoming Warner Moore A. M., D. D., Ph. D.
His father Smith William Moore (also a preacher) had transferred to the Memphis Conference and for a while was president of Bascom Female Seminary, Grenada, MS.
Warner was admitted to the Memphis conference at Jackson TN, ordained Deacon at Annual Conference held in Paducah KY., and Elder at Paris TN in Nov. 1868. His first Pastorate was the Coldwater, Mississippi circuit. In Mississippi he met, courted, and married Mourning Ella Leak, the marriage being in her plantation home in Tippah county near Salem, Mississippi. They married on December 17, 1868.
Dr. Warner Moore served from the smallest to the largest churches in the conference for a period of almost 45 years. Besides being pastor of numerous churches, he was a presiding elder of several districts, conference secretary for several years, and delegate to the general conference the number of times. A devout Christian gentlemen of the highest caliber, universally respected and loved by all who knew him or of him. He deeply loved all his kinsfolk from the closest to the most distant cousins. A hunter, fisherman, musician, Mason and Shriner, he was a handsome, stalwart man.
Warner and Mourning Ella had seven children, Warner Jr., Smith William (died in infancy), Nell, Albert, Frank, Yates, and Mary.
While Pastor at Ripley, Tennessee, after a very short illness, Dr. Warner Moore died March 3, 1909. He was buried in Maplewood Cemetery in Ripley. His last words—symbolic of his life and Godlike faith—are inscribed on the monument that marks his grave: "I have taken my soundings; my faith holds."
Warner was in school at Southern University at the start of the Civil War, and he left to enlist. He joined the artillery unit Stanford's Battery as a Private. Upon enlistment, he had the choice of being known as John W. Moore or Warner Moore. He chose to be known as Warner, and he continued using only one given name for the rest of his life. During the war he was supposedly wounded thrice, though there have been no records found to validate these claims. Stanford's Battery served at the battles of Shiloh TN, Perryville KY, Murfreesboro / Stones River TN, and Chickamauga GA. During the course of the war, Warner achieved the rank of Corporal.
During his service, Warner felt called to preach, and pursued his studies after the war becoming Warner Moore A. M., D. D., Ph. D.
His father Smith William Moore (also a preacher) had transferred to the Memphis Conference and for a while was president of Bascom Female Seminary, Grenada, MS.
Warner was admitted to the Memphis conference at Jackson TN, ordained Deacon at Annual Conference held in Paducah KY., and Elder at Paris TN in Nov. 1868. His first Pastorate was the Coldwater, Mississippi circuit. In Mississippi he met, courted, and married Mourning Ella Leak, the marriage being in her plantation home in Tippah county near Salem, Mississippi. They married on December 17, 1868.
Dr. Warner Moore served from the smallest to the largest churches in the conference for a period of almost 45 years. Besides being pastor of numerous churches, he was a presiding elder of several districts, conference secretary for several years, and delegate to the general conference the number of times. A devout Christian gentlemen of the highest caliber, universally respected and loved by all who knew him or of him. He deeply loved all his kinsfolk from the closest to the most distant cousins. A hunter, fisherman, musician, Mason and Shriner, he was a handsome, stalwart man.
Warner and Mourning Ella had seven children, Warner Jr., Smith William (died in infancy), Nell, Albert, Frank, Yates, and Mary.
While Pastor at Ripley, Tennessee, after a very short illness, Dr. Warner Moore died March 3, 1909. He was buried in Maplewood Cemetery in Ripley. His last words—symbolic of his life and Godlike faith—are inscribed on the monument that marks his grave: "I have taken my soundings; my faith holds."
Rev. Warner Moore was born John Warner Moore on June 12, 1845 in Pulaski, Giles Co., TN to Smith William Moore (Nov. 1, 1818 - Sept. 2, 1880) and Mary Ordalia Yates Moore (Dec. 29, 1820 - Jul. 10, 1906).
Warner was in school at Southern University at the start of the Civil War, and he left to enlist. He joined the artillery unit Stanford's Battery as a Private. Upon enlistment, he had the choice of being known as John W. Moore or Warner Moore. He chose to be known as Warner, and he continued using only one given name for the rest of his life. During the war he was supposedly wounded thrice, though there have been no records found to validate these claims. Stanford's Battery served at the battles of Shiloh TN, Perryville KY, Murfreesboro / Stones River TN, and Chickamauga GA. During the course of the war, Warner achieved the rank of Corporal.
During his service, Warner felt called to preach, and pursued his studies after the war becoming Warner Moore A. M., D. D., Ph. D.
His father Smith William Moore (also a preacher) had transferred to the Memphis Conference and for a while was president of Bascom Female Seminary, Grenada, MS.
Warner was admitted to the Memphis conference at Jackson TN, ordained Deacon at Annual Conference held in Paducah KY., and Elder at Paris TN in Nov. 1868. His first Pastorate was the Coldwater, Mississippi circuit. In Mississippi he met, courted, and married Mourning Ella Leak, the marriage being in her plantation home in Tippah county near Salem, Mississippi. They married on December 17, 1868.
Dr. Warner Moore served from the smallest to the largest churches in the conference for a period of almost 45 years. Besides being pastor of numerous churches, he was a presiding elder of several districts, conference secretary for several years, and delegate to the general conference the number of times. A devout Christian gentlemen of the highest caliber, universally respected and loved by all who knew him or of him. He deeply loved all his kinsfolk from the closest to the most distant cousins. A hunter, fisherman, musician, Mason and Shriner, he was a handsome, stalwart man.
Warner and Mourning Ella had seven children, Warner Jr., Smith William (died in infancy), Nell, Albert, Frank, Yates, and Mary.
While Pastor at Ripley, Tennessee, after a very short illness, Dr. Warner Moore died March 3, 1909. He was buried in Maplewood Cemetery in Ripley. His last words—symbolic of his life and Godlike faith—are inscribed on the monument that marks his grave: "I have taken my soundings; my faith holds."
Warner was in school at Southern University at the start of the Civil War, and he left to enlist. He joined the artillery unit Stanford's Battery as a Private. Upon enlistment, he had the choice of being known as John W. Moore or Warner Moore. He chose to be known as Warner, and he continued using only one given name for the rest of his life. During the war he was supposedly wounded thrice, though there have been no records found to validate these claims. Stanford's Battery served at the battles of Shiloh TN, Perryville KY, Murfreesboro / Stones River TN, and Chickamauga GA. During the course of the war, Warner achieved the rank of Corporal.
During his service, Warner felt called to preach, and pursued his studies after the war becoming Warner Moore A. M., D. D., Ph. D.
His father Smith William Moore (also a preacher) had transferred to the Memphis Conference and for a while was president of Bascom Female Seminary, Grenada, MS.
Warner was admitted to the Memphis conference at Jackson TN, ordained Deacon at Annual Conference held in Paducah KY., and Elder at Paris TN in Nov. 1868. His first Pastorate was the Coldwater, Mississippi circuit. In Mississippi he met, courted, and married Mourning Ella Leak, the marriage being in her plantation home in Tippah county near Salem, Mississippi. They married on December 17, 1868.
Dr. Warner Moore served from the smallest to the largest churches in the conference for a period of almost 45 years. Besides being pastor of numerous churches, he was a presiding elder of several districts, conference secretary for several years, and delegate to the general conference the number of times. A devout Christian gentlemen of the highest caliber, universally respected and loved by all who knew him or of him. He deeply loved all his kinsfolk from the closest to the most distant cousins. A hunter, fisherman, musician, Mason and Shriner, he was a handsome, stalwart man.
Warner and Mourning Ella had seven children, Warner Jr., Smith William (died in infancy), Nell, Albert, Frank, Yates, and Mary.
While Pastor at Ripley, Tennessee, after a very short illness, Dr. Warner Moore died March 3, 1909. He was buried in Maplewood Cemetery in Ripley. His last words—symbolic of his life and Godlike faith—are inscribed on the monument that marks his grave: "I have taken my soundings; my faith holds."
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