52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2016 WEEK 34: CYRUS MOORE OF WATERFORD & OXFORD ME.

My 4x great grandfather  Stephen Moore was one of my brickwalls. I posted about him this last
January and a comment from fellow genealogist Elizabeth Handler  helped break down that wall
and add several more branches to my family tree.

So in this post I'm moving on to Stephen's son, my 3x great grandfather Cyrus Moore. I don't have as much  information as I do on some of his ancestors, but I do know he was born on 20 Jun 1813 in Waterford. Oxford, Maine. He and Hannah Upton married sometime before the birth of my 2x great grandmother Betsey Jane Moore,   of the four children I've found so far.:

Solon Moore born about 1840,  probably in Waterford, Me.
Betsey Jane Moore 16 Aug 1842 Waterford, Me.
Cyrus N. Moore 1 Nov 1844 Albany Me
Harriet Moore (Birth information unknown)

Cyrus died sometime before November 23 1846 which is the earliest date on documents in his probate file.
Although there is no land in the inventory, the items listed in it seem to indicate he was a farmer.

Hannah was left with four young children  so it's not surprising she remarried a year after Cyrus' death. Her 
second husband was Peter Emery, with whom she had two more children.

Obviously, I need to do more digging on Cyrus! 

BEDTIME GENEALOGY 17

Sometimes, the pieces of the genealogy puzzle just seem to fit
together with a life of their own.

I decided to search Footnote.com again for my ancestor Amos
Upton in the Revolutionary War Pension File. He hadn’t been
there the first time I’d looked but Footnote is still updating
those files so I checked, and voila…there it was. As I read it
I found he’d been a resident of Norway, Maine which I hadn’t
known before.

So while I downloaded the images of the file, I did a search on
Google and found A History of Norway, Me. by David Noyes
on Googlebooks. There is quite a bit of information about Amos
in there as well as some on his son Francis. This brought me to
Amos’ granddaughter, Hannah, who I didn’t know much about
other than she had married Cyrus Moore and that their daughter
(my great great grandmother) Betsey Jane had been born in
Waterford, Maine.

The Amos Upton file was still dl so I tried searching Googlebooks
for Hannah Upton & Waterford. I found The History of Waterford:
Oxford County, Maine by Henry Pelt Warren and on pp 273-274
in the Records of Families I found a Hannah Upton who married a
Cyrus, son of Stephen Moore and Millie Davis. There were two
younger Moore children listed, daughters Betsey and Jane.


Perhaps Betsey Jane Moore had been named after her aunts?


By this time the Amos Upton file was all downloaded so I decided
I’d blog about this and then turn in for the night. I’ll try to find
more Moores in the next day or so, but if this pans out I now know
the names of Cyrus Moore’s parents, which I hadn’t before tonight.


Ah, serendipity!