MOORE HISTORY
Written by Ceph Moore in 1886
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This is a transcription of the data written by Cephas Moore in 1886. It was transcribed exactly as written, with errata and mispellings included.
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Following is the history as written by James Cephas Moore. Spelling, punctuation, and spacing are as they were written.
Mr. John Moore, Sr. was born July 27, 1759 in the State of New Jersey. He died March 23rd 1831 and was buried on his home farm in the State of Maryland.
Mrs. Ann Moore, wife of John Moore, Sr. was born in Europe October 9th 1769, was the daughter of Edward Dewire Sr. and was raised in the State of New Jersey. She died January 16th 1845 and was buried by the side of her husband on their own place.
Mr. Levi Moore was born November 15th 1807, was a son of John Moore Sr. He was born, raised and lived and died in occupancy of the John Moore House, Moore’s RunMd. He died February 28th 1883 aged 75 years 3 months and 13 days was buried on his own farm.
Mrs. Nancy Moore, wife of Levi Moore and daughter of William Broadwater Sr. was born November 19th 1813, was born on upper part of Siglar Farm, Garrett Co., Md.
The Wilts and Rhodes’s and old Samuel Jenkins and Rhodes from Loudon Co., Va. The Greens and Spikers came from Germany. Old Mr. Jacob Spiker lived about where Mr. James Poland lives. The McKentires and Warnicks came from Ireland.
Mrs. Sally Hallden[1] was a sister to William Broadwater Sr. She moved to Alabama. Her son Morrel Halden came back to Md. once to see his relatives. He had a brother Henry Hallden in Alabama.
Old James Shimer or Chambers was an old Revolutionist Soldier, a Patriot. This was the father of the William Shimer Jr. that I knew.
Old George King was a Revolution Soldier.
Sally Facenbaker[2] and Patsy Kolseman was the children of William Walls. Sally Walls married old George Facenbaker. Patsy married Samuel Holseman. This William Walls married a sister to William Broadwater Sr. and name Elizabeth.
Old Henry Ingman tended the Hockenberry Mill and also the Morrison Mill before either Hockenberry or Morrison did.
Uncle Charles Broadwater thinks that the Hockenberry Millis older than Morrisons Mill.
Grandmother Rebecca Broadwater and her son Charles visited old James Morrison Sr. They lived near where James Morrison Jr. lives now.
Charles Broadwater of William Sr. was born March 1st 1815.
William and Jessa Tumbleson[3] built the first saw mill on SavageRiver for William Broadwater, Sr.
Henry Broadwater of William Sr. moved on the place that he now lived in the Spring of 1850 moved in the woods. No land a being cleared west of Amos Broadwater’s Sr.
Robert Ross Jr. taught school at John Miller Sr. place and Henry Broadwater went to school to him and they lived on the Savage place.
John Haymaker tended Hockenberry mill before Hockenberry.
Levi Jacob’s and Adam Green taught school below Robert Greens on Laurel Run. Henry Broadwater twent to them. Lived on Savage.
The Jacob Miller place is where J. N. Spencer and Henry Barnes lived. His wife’s name was Sally Miller.
In the year 1818 this government had the National Pike repaired. They dug up the large stones on one half or one side at a time and broke stone generally used broke limestone in repairing.
Henry Broadwater of William Sr. also went to Morrison’s Old Meeting House to school.
1875 was a cold Winter.
Steamboat navigation commenced March 3rd 1817 at Louisville, Ky. by Capt. Henry M. Schrieve in the “Washington.”
Nancy Broadwater was born November 10th 1813
Charles Broadwater was born March 1st 1815
Henry Broadwater was born January 13th 1817
Robert Broadwater was born April 5th 1819
Jefferson Broadwater was born April 2nd 1822
William W. Broadwater was born June 1st 1824
Barbery Ellen Broadwater was born April 2nd 1826
Hester Broadwater was born May 8th 1828
Salem Broadwater was born October 1st 1830 and died October 1832, aged 2 years
Roseanna Broadwater was born either Oct. or Nov. 15th 1833. Believed to be in October.
Rebecca Green, daughter of Robert and Barbaria Green was born July 31st 1792. She was the wife of William Broadwater Sr. Ages wrote down February 19th 1854 in Uncle Henry’s Book that I copied from in the year 1886.
William Siglar[4] died in Barton. John Siglar died in Backwoods. Jacob Siglar died in Missouri. Philipp Siglar lives near Jeffereson Broadwater of C. Sr., in WestVa. And Mrs. Amos Broadwater Sr. is a sister to above Siglars. Their father’s name was John Siglar of P. Colman[5] Sr. place. There was an old Mr. P. Coalman lived where P. Colmors heirs now lives before John Siglar Sr. lived there.
Mathias 24th of Feby. Is what old citizens would call a day that the temperature would change either to make ice or to break ice.
Mr. Amos Broadwater Sr. moved William Broadwater Sr. from the Laurel Run Bottom House to Savage by way of Roades’s Hill and then up Savage.
Mr. William Davis was the first man that had a mill at Buskark, above Lonaconing. There were an old mill south of Morrisons Stone mill in the creek. The oldest and Davis’ next oldest. The Stones, Burrs & c[6] from Davis’s mill were taken to old Mr. Michael Wilts mill on SavageRiver.
James Morrison had the first store in Westernport. Old Mrs. Burns was the first family that lived in Piedmont. Old Mr. Reason Simpson lived on first farm above Bloomington and John Moore Jr. of Illinois married a daughter of his.
Old Mr. Wm. Price had a store at an early day and nearly as soon as Morrison in Westernport.
Wm. Shaw in Co. with old Mr. Edward McCarty had first store in Barton and near Hockenberry House.
John Mathas lived in the old Log House before Hockenberry where Barton now stands. He tended grist mill at mouth of Moores Run.
Old David Spencer lived where old Jacob Jacob moved to. Jacob Jacob married a daughter of David Spencer.
Old Captain Charles Broadwater was given fifty thousand acres of land to settle in America. He settled his claim about ten miles from Fairfax, Va.
Arthur Broadwater was in Fairfax when Amos Broadwater Sr. went there to hunt up relations and our forefathers that came from Loudon Co., Va. To George’s Hills and Savage Settlement came from the descendents of the said Samuel Broadwater of Fairfax, Va.
Capt Coona[7] Corbus was a patriot soldier in the old Revolution War. A Relick of the Revolution.
At the Reckner place on the far side of Caladona Farm stands a pear tree that was planted by old Mrs. Cata Miller.
Old Mr. John Leach lived on the old Miller Farm where we call the Reckner Farm and was a school teacher. He taught school some at the John Miller Sr. school house. Old Mr. & Mrs. Amos Broadwater Sr. both went to school to old Mr. John Leach.
Old Mr. Calita Potter
Old Mr. Benjamin Brady – school teacher
Old Mr. Peter Neff
Old Mr. Philipp Michael
Old Mr. Joseph Warnick
Old Mrs. Sally Warnick
Old Mr. William Howell
Mrs. Molly Howell
The Howells lived where old Marks[8] Facenbaker lived.
Old Mrs. Amos Broadwater went to school first to old Mr. John Leach and next to old Mr. Benjamine Braidy and some to old Mr. James Ross that married Betsy Warnick. This Mr. Ross were called Wormey Jim Ross.
Marcus Facenbaker Sr. was born December 25th 1805.
Mr. Joshua Robinson J. P. was the original settler at Franklin mine.
William Robinson lived on the onion patch. His wife were a Warnick, Jinnie Warnick. She died on onion patch. His wife.
John Barnes Sr. married Nancy Broadwater. Their only childs name was Sally Sigler, afterward Sally Evans. John Barnes’s Sr. Father’s name was William Barnes of Colonial times.
John Barnes Sr. second wife’s name was Sally Facenbaker and his third wife’s name was Charity Broadwater, daughter of Guy Broadwater.
Guy Boradwater was first married to Miss Polly Piles and after she died Guy lived with Mrs. Susan Recknor.
Sally Facenbaker, widow of old Mr. George Facenbaker and daughter of old Mrs. Betsy Walls lives in upper part of Bloomington, Md.
Mr. Nathan Frost had the first tavern in Frostburg.
When old Mr. James Totten moved to Georges Hill. When he got as far as the hill below Westernport that was as far as there were any road. They packed their things up across the mountain.
In agoin[9] over a cliff below Westernport in early times, a man killed all his horses by sliding over the cliff.
Old Mr. Knottly Barnard first had a leavy and made the first road over the cliffs of rocks abelow Westernport so that a wagon could come to the mouth of GeorgesCreek.
Charles Broadwater Sr. died August 5th at noon on Friday 1859. He was born April 22, 1778. Aged 81 years 3 months 13 days.
Guy Broadwater Sr. died July 26th 1864. He was next younger to Charles about between 2 years.
Samuel Broadwater Sr. died March 26th 1864. Was youngest boy and was born in the year 1800. He was younger than William Sr.
William Broadwater Sr. died 27 Feby. 1867. He was next younger than Guy.
Mrs. Elizabeth Walls died July 12th 1869. She was next older than Charles.
Mrs. Sarah Hallden was the oldest child of the family. Charles Sr., her brother went to see her once. She lived in Bedford, Va. He went X. of Lexington East Va. They afterwards went to Alabama.
Miss Virginia Broadwater died when she was 12 years old in Loudon Co., Va. She was a sister to Wm. Broadwater Sr.
Amos Broadwater moved in new house in 1834.
Juen 5th 1859 was a big frost and done so much damage old John Plucker[10] died. In that year after the frost Charles Broadwater Sr. died in that year.
David McKentire Sr. was a school teacher. He lived on Philipp Michael place and then moved on Savage. His grand father was a school teacher.
Old Mr. Hugh Hand settled where John Shaw now lives.
Old Mr. Mortemore Kaid[11] lived in Westernport then moved to Piney Grove. Then went West.
Capt. in Revolution War. Capt. Cornealus[12] Broadwater Sr. was the son of Charles Broadwater of Colonial times. Cornealus Broadwater was the father of William Broadwater Sr. of Savage River Rd.
Nancy[13] Broadwater was the wife of Cornealus Broadwater. Lived with her son Samuel and was buried on the Corbus place or Pekell Graveyard in October 1838.
Guy Broadwater was buried at Marcus Facenbakers in a corner of a field.
Samuel Broadwater Sr. was buried on Corbus place or Pekell as it is now called.
A soldier in 1812 Charles Broadwater Sr. and his wife is buried on his old place on Savage now owned by William Broadwater of Amos in Garrett Co., Md.
Wrote down 24 February 1886 by J. C. Moore.
Their new home in the woods 60 years 15th of March next since Amos Broadwater moved here. So it is March 15th 1826.
95 years 4 months and 9 days was the age of Mary M. Broadwater wife of Charles Sr. and mother of Amos Broadwater Sr. Maiden name was Miss Beavers. She were buried by side of her husband on SavageRiver.
81 years in August 9th next Amos Broadwater Sr.’s age. Was born on 9 August 1805.
She was born 77 years 19th of April 1809 next is Sarah, wife of Amos Broadwater, Sr. age. Maiden name Sigler 1809.
Jacob Jackson died and buried on Dry Hill Detmole Hill, Md.
Samuel Jackson is a son of Jacob J. Jacob Jackson Sr. was the old man’s name that lived on the Jackson Farm, near Lonaconing, Md. He – Sameul and family with the Beam family from near where Franklin is and Poland Family and others. 13 families went at one time from George’s Hills to Licken[14] Co., Ohio about 10 to 15 miles West of Steubenville, Ohio. Amos Broadwater went there on a visit.
Tazewell CourtHouse, Va. is where James Moore Sr. settled and was killed by Indians in 1784. They killed John Moore, Jr. and the three small or younger children and near mouth of Paint Creek on SciotoRiver in Ohio. Mrs. Jas. Moore Sr. and her daughter Jane who was 16 years old was burned to the stake with splinters of pine wood. Their daughter Mary became the wife of Mr. Brown in Augusta. James Moore, Jr. still lives in Tazwell County, Va. The Treaty of Greenville concluded on the 3rd of August 1765 were broken and murder continued until 1794 or later (from Border of Warfare).
Our forefathers on the frontier settlements in Maryland were spaired by the Indians earlier than in Western Va. but were not safe before about 1794.
J. C. Moore remembers seeing and talking with one of the old Mr. Zane’s in Wheeling in 1865.
Mr. John Simpson was a trapper in the Glades of Western Md. in the year 1764 and John and Samuel Pringle that deserted from Fort Pitt in 1761 was imployed for a time by said John Simpson in traping in the glades and William Childers and Joseph Linsey also hunted some in the glades and deserted from Fort Pitt with the Pringles. The glades were a common hunting ground for people of South Branch after 1764. Simpson sold his farm and gone on the South Branch. He then went to W. Va. in 1764.
William Broadwater Sr. moved from a place on the run below Jessa Grove place that is against the Hill. Old Mr. Wm. King lived there once and before Grove and after Wm. Broadwater Sr. left there, then Wm. Grove lived there. Mr. King settled there first.
Mathias Ball lived where A. B. Shaw now lives before Major Shaw bought there. Ball had a Tanery. Was large man.
George King was an Exorter in Methodist meetings.
Abraham Lockeridge was a carpenter and made coffins. And John Lockeridge was a farmer.
Guy Broadwater lived with the widow of James McKentire. She was a Miss Susan Reckenor.
James Totten Jr. J. P. of Lonaconing. His last wife was Miss Nancy Dayton. James Totten, Jr. J. P. had John Moore Sr. private papers.
James Totten Sr. married a Peterson. This Mrs. Totten remembered passing through Cumberland when there were but two houses there.
Old Mr. William Moore that married a sister to old Mr. John Michael wsa supposed to be no relatioin to the Moore’s of Moore’s Runn near Barton. The said William Moore married Miss Julia Michael of Loudoun Co., Va. Their children William Jr., a hatter of Cumberland, Md., John Moore and Solamon Moore *Moore farmers) and Miss Elizabeth and Solamon married on Patterson’s Creek to a Miss Rinker. He thinks, and then this family of W. Moore’s Sr. all moved to OhioState.
William Moore of Savage ws born a where Selbysport, Md. now stands or near there. And was of the first trappers in the wild Glades. The Moore Family knew of a Poplar Tree at the mouth of Poplar Lick where they could hide from the Indians.
There was a Charles Broadwatr that was a brother of Cornealus Broadwater. And said Charles moved on the Cumberland River in the state of Kentucky and raised eleven girls. He had no boys.
Mr. William Broadwater Sr. ws born in Loudoun County, Virginia, and moved to George’s Hills Maryalnd when young. He died on Wednesday morning about 6 o’clock on February 27th 1862. He thought that he would be 84 years old if he lived to see March. It is likely he were nearly 85 years old.
Childrens ages of William W. Broadwater Jr. and Easter Broadwater:
- Rachael Jane was born in the year 1847 March the twentieth
- Mary Ellen was born in the year 1849 December the 30th
- Francis Stephen was born in the year 1852 March the 21st
- Rebecca Susan was born in the year 1853 October the 22nd
- Eliza Virginia was born in the year 1855 August 4th
- Alice Anna was born in the year 1858 July 1st
- Henrietta Maria was born in the year 1861 April 16th
- Charles Benton was born in the year 1862 November 30th
- Wm. Andrew Johnson was born in the year 1865 May 13th
- George Lewis was born in the year 1868 July the 17th
- Laura Persia was born in the year 1870 March 1st
- Minnie May was born in the year 1878 October 25th
Rebecca Susan died in the year 1870. She was the wife of Joseph Coalman
Eliza Virginia died October 13th 1880 in Fillmore Co., Minnesota. Wife of Darius Broadwater.
William W. Broadwater of Wm. Sr. and Easter Jenkins was married in the year 1849 January 7th by the Rev. Lenard Myers.
Easter Broadwater was born in the year 1829 February 4th.
The above 26 pages were wrote February 23 and 24 1886 wrote down by J. Cephas Moore of near Barton, Allegany County, Maryland.
The first Grist Mill at Morrisons stood south of the stone mill in the creek and Mr. Jas. Magruder says this was the first mill built on the creek. And Henry Ingman owned the land where Morrisons lived and traded it for property in the Glades.
Mr. Jacob Trollinger died August 31st 1831 aged 76 years.
Mrs. Ann Christeny Trollinger wife of Jacob Trollinger died July 17th 1840 aged 74 years.
Mrs. Catherine Inskeep wife of David Inskeep and daughter of Rev. William Shaw was born 1805 August 9th and died February 16th 1886 aged 80 years 6 months and 7 days. Buried at Morrison Graveyard.