Life, Death, and Civil War in the Moore Community of Wayne County, Missouri
We have shared the incommunicable experience of war. We felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youths, our hearts were touched by fire." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, on the young soldiers of the Civil War John W. Moore and Eliza (Elizabeth) Beary Moore were the original hardy souls, leaving the relative tame life of West Tennessee, to enter into the fledgling state of Missouri to the site of what would come to be known as the "Moore Community" in Wayne County, Missouri. Much is known of the four bothers, all sons of John W. Moore and Eliza Beary Moore that perpetuated the Moore line so prolifically in Wayne County, Missouri. Their names were Robert Glenn, Daniel, Lewis Doctor, and William Dudley Moore. But there is more to the family that should be known. At least twelve children were born to John and Eliza, but only the stories of the four previously named sons are generally known. This is a historical narrative of traged
