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MOORE - LENON
Isabelle Prudy "Belle" Moore was born July 28, 1870 in Tunnel Hill, Johnson County, Illinois, and died August 31, 1929 in Madison County, Illinois. She was the daughter of Gardner Moore and Mary Elizabeth Stonum Moore. She married William Monroe "Will" Lenon December 28, 1893 in Laflin, Missouri, son of William Riley Lennon (December 20, 1827 – December 16, 1885) and Mary Jane Matthews (some say Mathis) (born August 7, 1838 in Indian Reservation Territory near Memphis, Tennessee – December 13, 1913). Will Lenon was born November 20, 1870 in Tunnel Hill, Johnson County, Illinois. Children of Isabelle Moore and Will Lenon were Nellie Pearl Lenon, Goldie Belle Lenon, Ruby Lee Lenon Cox, Mable Clare Lenon Rogers Reeves, Barney Dill Lenon, Zelma Leila Lenon McGrew Persinger, and Beulah Belle Lenon Mirkoff.
The other children of William Riley & Mary Jane Lennon were: Albert Henry W. Lenon (born September 29, 1852 and may have died in Seminole County, Oklahoma), Marcus A. Leroy Lenon (August 31, 1854 – February 14, 1915), James Marshall Lenon (1857 - December 27, 1928), Rufus Elmer Lenon (January 3, 1859 - March 31, 1910), Samuela Green Lenon (born 1860), Valerie Belle Lenon (October 25, 1862 - January 28, 1914), Hubert Victor Lenon (May 23, 1866 – May 10, 1939), unnamed infant son (born and died 1868), Levianth Fisher Lenon (born March 13, 1873), Ulphia Eugenia Lenon (October 26, 1875 – 1961), and John Finis Lenon (December 3, 1878 – October 4, 1899).
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William Granville Moore was born July 13, 1873 in Tunnel Hill, Johnson County, Illinois, and died December 08, 1948 in Ozark, New Burnside, Johnson County, Illinois. He was the son of Gardner Moore and Mary Elizabeth Stonum Moore and the twin of Nancy Jane Moore Jackson Cater. He married Sarah Penina Yates April 10, 1894 in Johnson County, Illinois, daughter of Needham Hollie Yates and Elizabeth Jane Harrell. She was born November 11, 1875 in Ozark, New Burnside, Johnson County, Illinois, and died April 09, 1940 in Ozark, New Burnside, Johnson County, Illinois. Sarah Penina Yates was of Cherokee blood through the Yates and Branscum (Branchcomb) lines, but she is also a direct descendant and namesake of Winifred Penina Johnson Wise Harrell. They were: Clethia Bell Moore Woodworth, John Moore, James Clella Moore, William Coy "Pat" Moore, Carrie Mae Moore Leonard, Roy Albert "Rome" Moore, Everett Isaac Hollie "Skinner" Moore, Lillie Mae Moore Duncan, Robert Moore, and Earl Lee "Beatle" Moore.
In 1861William Granville Moore’s father, Gardner Moore, went with his brother Granville Moore to join the federal troops and fight for the North in the Civil War. His brother was underage, perhaps only 15, but passed for older, and joined. Gardner looked and was far too young and was sent back. Granville finished his hitch in Company K – the 60th Illinois Infantry, and could have been discharged. Like 75% of the other Illinois Volunteers in this brigade, he signed on for another four years. Shortly after reenlisting, Private Granville Moore was killed at Kennesaw Mountain by a Confederate sniper on June 24, 1864. He never had the chance to marry or have children, The Moores remember Granville Moore each time they meet as a fallen patriot who never earned the second hitch money that would have bought a nice farm back home in Johnson County. William Granville Moore (the namesake of Gardner’s brother lost in the Civil War) had ten children, so the family likes to think that the spirit of the first Granville Moore lives on in these descendants in particular.
Contributed by Lynn Dalian Moore with permission Copyright 2008, All Rights Reserved
