Following the Civil War, in 1868-9, the Captain was forced into declaring bankruptcy. His will has clues to some of the things I can't find in documents just yet. He had a number of children by his "long since deceased" wife Unice G [Eunice Garner Sanders]. He owned property that legally belonged to her children, because of a deed signed in 1869 by John B Moore (apparently a marriage settlement of sorts), which included Rafting Creek Swamp and ran to the Melletts' place (his third wife was a Mellett). His will left his third wife, Martha E Moore, guardian of his many small children and executor of the entire estate, which was at her disposal. He left nothing for the children of Eunice, but there may have been nothing much to leave them. He had to come back and sign a codicil to insist that the third wife and her children could not displace the first set of children, who had apparently built their homes on their father's property. In 1889, before his death, the 50 acres of property that had been deeded to Eunice was auctioned off, possibly to satisfy debt, but I can't be sure of that.
An interesting little tidbit -- his third wife, Martha, won numerous blue ribbons for her preserves at local fairs.
Notes on his first wife, Helen L. Moore:
Her tombstone has been located at the Swift Creek Baptist Church Cemetery in Boykin, Kershaw County, South Carolina. The date engraved on there is 12 Dec 1859. However, she is clearly listed with Isham on the 1860 census. In my experience, many mistakes like this happen, but I can't find any evidence to tell us which is the true. Both headstones and census returns are fraught with errors, so figure she died in 1859 or 1860. They must not have had any children together, because his will only accounts for issue with his second wife, Eunice, and his last wife, Martha. In 1864, Eunice and Isham named their first child "Helen S", according to the 1870 census. The presence of a "Helen LeRoy Moore, born in 1885, to Isham and Martha may be a clue as to the full name of his first wife, too. Just a thought.
The Watchman and Southron, Sumter, South Carolina, 10 Oct 1894, p5:
Capt. Isham Moore, of the Rafting Creek section, died at his home on Saturday last. He was 61 [sic] years of age, and was one of the best known men in the county, having friends in all sections. His health had been declining for several months and his death was not unexpected. The funeral services were held at High Hills Church on Sunday afternoon and a large congregation was present.
The Watchman and Southron, Sumter, South Carolina, 29 Jan 1896, p5:
MARRIED. Mr. Marion Allen and Mrs M.E. Moore, were married on Thursday night last at the home of the latter, near Catchall, this county. Mrs Moore was the widow of the late Capt. Isham Moore.
I believe that Isham is the son of Col John Isham Moore and brother of John Burchell Moore. That said, some tree has him listed as the son of Richard Singleton Manning Moore and Mary Ballard. If you don't mind that those folks are bumping 60 years old at the time of Isham's birth, be my guest to pursuing that line. Perhaps those are his grandparents? The 1850 census shows that it might be our Isham living with a brother or cousin, 23yo Dr Richard M. Moore. Food for thought, but my money's on the Colonel right now.
Eunice Garner Sanders, the second Mrs Moore, was 19yo girl during the 1860 census. She was living with her parents in Stateburgh and next door to Isham and his first wife, Helen L. In 1876, her brother-in-law John Dixon, husband of her sister, leaves Mrs Eunice Moore a legacy. She must have died between 1876 and 1880, when that census shows Isham with no wife and a number of children aged down 4yo John.
An interesting little tidbit -- his third wife, Martha, won numerous blue ribbons for her preserves at local fairs.
Notes on his first wife, Helen L. Moore:
Her tombstone has been located at the Swift Creek Baptist Church Cemetery in Boykin, Kershaw County, South Carolina. The date engraved on there is 12 Dec 1859. However, she is clearly listed with Isham on the 1860 census. In my experience, many mistakes like this happen, but I can't find any evidence to tell us which is the true. Both headstones and census returns are fraught with errors, so figure she died in 1859 or 1860. They must not have had any children together, because his will only accounts for issue with his second wife, Eunice, and his last wife, Martha. In 1864, Eunice and Isham named their first child "Helen S", according to the 1870 census. The presence of a "Helen LeRoy Moore, born in 1885, to Isham and Martha may be a clue as to the full name of his first wife, too. Just a thought.
The Watchman and Southron, Sumter, South Carolina, 10 Oct 1894, p5:
Capt. Isham Moore, of the Rafting Creek section, died at his home on Saturday last. He was 61 [sic] years of age, and was one of the best known men in the county, having friends in all sections. His health had been declining for several months and his death was not unexpected. The funeral services were held at High Hills Church on Sunday afternoon and a large congregation was present.
The Watchman and Southron, Sumter, South Carolina, 29 Jan 1896, p5:
MARRIED. Mr. Marion Allen and Mrs M.E. Moore, were married on Thursday night last at the home of the latter, near Catchall, this county. Mrs Moore was the widow of the late Capt. Isham Moore.
I believe that Isham is the son of Col John Isham Moore and brother of John Burchell Moore. That said, some tree has him listed as the son of Richard Singleton Manning Moore and Mary Ballard. If you don't mind that those folks are bumping 60 years old at the time of Isham's birth, be my guest to pursuing that line. Perhaps those are his grandparents? The 1850 census shows that it might be our Isham living with a brother or cousin, 23yo Dr Richard M. Moore. Food for thought, but my money's on the Colonel right now.
Eunice Garner Sanders, the second Mrs Moore, was 19yo girl during the 1860 census. She was living with her parents in Stateburgh and next door to Isham and his first wife, Helen L. In 1876, her brother-in-law John Dixon, husband of her sister, leaves Mrs Eunice Moore a legacy. She must have died between 1876 and 1880, when that census shows Isham with no wife and a number of children aged down 4yo John.
Following the Civil War, in 1868-9, the Captain was forced into declaring bankruptcy. His will has clues to some of the things I can't find in documents just yet. He had a number of children by his "long since deceased" wife Unice G [Eunice Garner Sanders]. He owned property that legally belonged to her children, because of a deed signed in 1869 by John B Moore (apparently a marriage settlement of sorts), which included Rafting Creek Swamp and ran to the Melletts' place (his third wife was a Mellett). His will left his third wife, Martha E Moore, guardian of his many small children and executor of the entire estate, which was at her disposal. He left nothing for the children of Eunice, but there may have been nothing much to leave them. He had to come back and sign a codicil to insist that the third wife and her children could not displace the first set of children, who had apparently built their homes on their father's property. In 1889, before his death, the 50 acres of property that had been deeded to Eunice was auctioned off, possibly to satisfy debt, but I can't be sure of that.
An interesting little tidbit -- his third wife, Martha, won numerous blue ribbons for her preserves at local fairs.
Notes on his first wife, Helen L. Moore:
Her tombstone has been located at the Swift Creek Baptist Church Cemetery in Boykin, Kershaw County, South Carolina. The date engraved on there is 12 Dec 1859. However, she is clearly listed with Isham on the 1860 census. In my experience, many mistakes like this happen, but I can't find any evidence to tell us which is the true. Both headstones and census returns are fraught with errors, so figure she died in 1859 or 1860. They must not have had any children together, because his will only accounts for issue with his second wife, Eunice, and his last wife, Martha. In 1864, Eunice and Isham named their first child "Helen S", according to the 1870 census. The presence of a "Helen LeRoy Moore, born in 1885, to Isham and Martha may be a clue as to the full name of his first wife, too. Just a thought.
The Watchman and Southron, Sumter, South Carolina, 10 Oct 1894, p5:
Capt. Isham Moore, of the Rafting Creek section, died at his home on Saturday last. He was 61 [sic] years of age, and was one of the best known men in the county, having friends in all sections. His health had been declining for several months and his death was not unexpected. The funeral services were held at High Hills Church on Sunday afternoon and a large congregation was present.
The Watchman and Southron, Sumter, South Carolina, 29 Jan 1896, p5:
MARRIED. Mr. Marion Allen and Mrs M.E. Moore, were married on Thursday night last at the home of the latter, near Catchall, this county. Mrs Moore was the widow of the late Capt. Isham Moore.
I believe that Isham is the son of Col John Isham Moore and brother of John Burchell Moore. That said, some tree has him listed as the son of Richard Singleton Manning Moore and Mary Ballard. If you don't mind that those folks are bumping 60 years old at the time of Isham's birth, be my guest to pursuing that line. Perhaps those are his grandparents? The 1850 census shows that it might be our Isham living with a brother or cousin, 23yo Dr Richard M. Moore. Food for thought, but my money's on the Colonel right now.
Eunice Garner Sanders, the second Mrs Moore, was 19yo girl during the 1860 census. She was living with her parents in Stateburgh and next door to Isham and his first wife, Helen L. In 1876, her brother-in-law John Dixon, husband of her sister, leaves Mrs Eunice Moore a legacy. She must have died between 1876 and 1880, when that census shows Isham with no wife and a number of children aged down 4yo John.
An interesting little tidbit -- his third wife, Martha, won numerous blue ribbons for her preserves at local fairs.
Notes on his first wife, Helen L. Moore:
Her tombstone has been located at the Swift Creek Baptist Church Cemetery in Boykin, Kershaw County, South Carolina. The date engraved on there is 12 Dec 1859. However, she is clearly listed with Isham on the 1860 census. In my experience, many mistakes like this happen, but I can't find any evidence to tell us which is the true. Both headstones and census returns are fraught with errors, so figure she died in 1859 or 1860. They must not have had any children together, because his will only accounts for issue with his second wife, Eunice, and his last wife, Martha. In 1864, Eunice and Isham named their first child "Helen S", according to the 1870 census. The presence of a "Helen LeRoy Moore, born in 1885, to Isham and Martha may be a clue as to the full name of his first wife, too. Just a thought.
The Watchman and Southron, Sumter, South Carolina, 10 Oct 1894, p5:
Capt. Isham Moore, of the Rafting Creek section, died at his home on Saturday last. He was 61 [sic] years of age, and was one of the best known men in the county, having friends in all sections. His health had been declining for several months and his death was not unexpected. The funeral services were held at High Hills Church on Sunday afternoon and a large congregation was present.
The Watchman and Southron, Sumter, South Carolina, 29 Jan 1896, p5:
MARRIED. Mr. Marion Allen and Mrs M.E. Moore, were married on Thursday night last at the home of the latter, near Catchall, this county. Mrs Moore was the widow of the late Capt. Isham Moore.
I believe that Isham is the son of Col John Isham Moore and brother of John Burchell Moore. That said, some tree has him listed as the son of Richard Singleton Manning Moore and Mary Ballard. If you don't mind that those folks are bumping 60 years old at the time of Isham's birth, be my guest to pursuing that line. Perhaps those are his grandparents? The 1850 census shows that it might be our Isham living with a brother or cousin, 23yo Dr Richard M. Moore. Food for thought, but my money's on the Colonel right now.
Eunice Garner Sanders, the second Mrs Moore, was 19yo girl during the 1860 census. She was living with her parents in Stateburgh and next door to Isham and his first wife, Helen L. In 1876, her brother-in-law John Dixon, husband of her sister, leaves Mrs Eunice Moore a legacy. She must have died between 1876 and 1880, when that census shows Isham with no wife and a number of children aged down 4yo John.
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