The following obituary, from the Library of Congress: Chronicling America: Port Gibson 1836-1880, was provided by Linda Mullen:
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The Morning Star and Catholic Messenger,
Sunday, August 10, 1873
The Late Mrs. Elve Ann Moore
The Catholics of Mississippi have met a serious loss in the death of Mrs. Elve Ann Moore, wife of John Taylor Moore, Esq., of Port Gibson, Claiborne County.
Mrs. Moore was daughter of Rezin P. Bowie and niece of Col. James Bowie, who was killed at the Alamo during the Texan war. She was born in Louisiana on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, September 8th, 1819.
When she came to Port Gibson, after her marriage in 1841, she was the only Catholic in that part of the country. She exercised her zeal very successfully by holding out inducements for Catholics to settle in the neighborhood, and in a few years a small but very substantial and handsome brick church was erected. The ground, the building and the cemetery were chiefly fruits of the liberality of different members of the family, procured through her influence.
She was a friend to the orphans, in Natchez, and in Washington City, where she resided occasionally. She was active and judicious in aiding all works of charity and religion around her, contributing means, labors and wise counsels.
Her example, as well as her words, were efficacious in inspiring others with esteem and love for her holy religion. She had the happiness of seeing all the members of her family united in the faith, and her eldest daughter consecrated to God among the Sisters of Charity at Nazareth, Kentucky.
Her sickness was so rapid that she was unable to have a priest to administer the last Sacraments; but just two weeks before she had nourished her soul with the Bread that gives Eternal Life. She had always been regular and frequent in approaching the Sacraments when it was in her power, and on her death-bed she found how the Lord of Grace can supply for the want of the Sacraments, to a soul that has been faithful in using them during life.
Her husband and her children, and her venerable mother united their prayers with hers, and the last effort of her hands and lips, was to make the sign of the Cross, and pronounce the name of the Adorable Trinity.
Divine Providence so disposed events that her daughter, Sister of Charity, who had for some time been expecting death, died at Nazareth, on the same night, about two hours after the mother.
"She looked well to the paths of her house. Her children rose up and called her blessed; her husband and he praised her." Prov. xxxl, 27, 28
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The Morning Star and Catholic Messenger,
Sunday, August 10, 1873
The Late Mrs. Elve Ann Moore
The Catholics of Mississippi have met a serious loss in the death of Mrs. Elve Ann Moore, wife of John Taylor Moore, Esq., of Port Gibson, Claiborne County.
Mrs. Moore was daughter of Rezin P. Bowie and niece of Col. James Bowie, who was killed at the Alamo during the Texan war. She was born in Louisiana on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, September 8th, 1819.
When she came to Port Gibson, after her marriage in 1841, she was the only Catholic in that part of the country. She exercised her zeal very successfully by holding out inducements for Catholics to settle in the neighborhood, and in a few years a small but very substantial and handsome brick church was erected. The ground, the building and the cemetery were chiefly fruits of the liberality of different members of the family, procured through her influence.
She was a friend to the orphans, in Natchez, and in Washington City, where she resided occasionally. She was active and judicious in aiding all works of charity and religion around her, contributing means, labors and wise counsels.
Her example, as well as her words, were efficacious in inspiring others with esteem and love for her holy religion. She had the happiness of seeing all the members of her family united in the faith, and her eldest daughter consecrated to God among the Sisters of Charity at Nazareth, Kentucky.
Her sickness was so rapid that she was unable to have a priest to administer the last Sacraments; but just two weeks before she had nourished her soul with the Bread that gives Eternal Life. She had always been regular and frequent in approaching the Sacraments when it was in her power, and on her death-bed she found how the Lord of Grace can supply for the want of the Sacraments, to a soul that has been faithful in using them during life.
Her husband and her children, and her venerable mother united their prayers with hers, and the last effort of her hands and lips, was to make the sign of the Cross, and pronounce the name of the Adorable Trinity.
Divine Providence so disposed events that her daughter, Sister of Charity, who had for some time been expecting death, died at Nazareth, on the same night, about two hours after the mother.
"She looked well to the paths of her house. Her children rose up and called her blessed; her husband and he praised her." Prov. xxxl, 27, 28
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The following obituary, from the Library of Congress: Chronicling America: Port Gibson 1836-1880, was provided by Linda Mullen:
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The Morning Star and Catholic Messenger,
Sunday, August 10, 1873
The Late Mrs. Elve Ann Moore
The Catholics of Mississippi have met a serious loss in the death of Mrs. Elve Ann Moore, wife of John Taylor Moore, Esq., of Port Gibson, Claiborne County.
Mrs. Moore was daughter of Rezin P. Bowie and niece of Col. James Bowie, who was killed at the Alamo during the Texan war. She was born in Louisiana on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, September 8th, 1819.
When she came to Port Gibson, after her marriage in 1841, she was the only Catholic in that part of the country. She exercised her zeal very successfully by holding out inducements for Catholics to settle in the neighborhood, and in a few years a small but very substantial and handsome brick church was erected. The ground, the building and the cemetery were chiefly fruits of the liberality of different members of the family, procured through her influence.
She was a friend to the orphans, in Natchez, and in Washington City, where she resided occasionally. She was active and judicious in aiding all works of charity and religion around her, contributing means, labors and wise counsels.
Her example, as well as her words, were efficacious in inspiring others with esteem and love for her holy religion. She had the happiness of seeing all the members of her family united in the faith, and her eldest daughter consecrated to God among the Sisters of Charity at Nazareth, Kentucky.
Her sickness was so rapid that she was unable to have a priest to administer the last Sacraments; but just two weeks before she had nourished her soul with the Bread that gives Eternal Life. She had always been regular and frequent in approaching the Sacraments when it was in her power, and on her death-bed she found how the Lord of Grace can supply for the want of the Sacraments, to a soul that has been faithful in using them during life.
Her husband and her children, and her venerable mother united their prayers with hers, and the last effort of her hands and lips, was to make the sign of the Cross, and pronounce the name of the Adorable Trinity.
Divine Providence so disposed events that her daughter, Sister of Charity, who had for some time been expecting death, died at Nazareth, on the same night, about two hours after the mother.
"She looked well to the paths of her house. Her children rose up and called her blessed; her husband and he praised her." Prov. xxxl, 27, 28
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The Morning Star and Catholic Messenger,
Sunday, August 10, 1873
The Late Mrs. Elve Ann Moore
The Catholics of Mississippi have met a serious loss in the death of Mrs. Elve Ann Moore, wife of John Taylor Moore, Esq., of Port Gibson, Claiborne County.
Mrs. Moore was daughter of Rezin P. Bowie and niece of Col. James Bowie, who was killed at the Alamo during the Texan war. She was born in Louisiana on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, September 8th, 1819.
When she came to Port Gibson, after her marriage in 1841, she was the only Catholic in that part of the country. She exercised her zeal very successfully by holding out inducements for Catholics to settle in the neighborhood, and in a few years a small but very substantial and handsome brick church was erected. The ground, the building and the cemetery were chiefly fruits of the liberality of different members of the family, procured through her influence.
She was a friend to the orphans, in Natchez, and in Washington City, where she resided occasionally. She was active and judicious in aiding all works of charity and religion around her, contributing means, labors and wise counsels.
Her example, as well as her words, were efficacious in inspiring others with esteem and love for her holy religion. She had the happiness of seeing all the members of her family united in the faith, and her eldest daughter consecrated to God among the Sisters of Charity at Nazareth, Kentucky.
Her sickness was so rapid that she was unable to have a priest to administer the last Sacraments; but just two weeks before she had nourished her soul with the Bread that gives Eternal Life. She had always been regular and frequent in approaching the Sacraments when it was in her power, and on her death-bed she found how the Lord of Grace can supply for the want of the Sacraments, to a soul that has been faithful in using them during life.
Her husband and her children, and her venerable mother united their prayers with hers, and the last effort of her hands and lips, was to make the sign of the Cross, and pronounce the name of the Adorable Trinity.
Divine Providence so disposed events that her daughter, Sister of Charity, who had for some time been expecting death, died at Nazareth, on the same night, about two hours after the mother.
"She looked well to the paths of her house. Her children rose up and called her blessed; her husband and he praised her." Prov. xxxl, 27, 28
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