Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

482 BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES
from his first earnings in Philadelphia he sent her money to come
over. Lilce a true girl she responded and on the day of her arrival in
Philadelphia they were inarried in 1848. The lady diecl in 1866, ancl
is buried in the Elmira cemetery. Both of them mere rare lovers of
literatme, the old gentleman being thorougl~ly conversant wit11 all
the leacling writers, and a supporter of fifty-two meekly newspapers.
Williain Moffitt's parents came to Philadelphia in 1848 with a young
fmnily. Some time later they mored to Henry county, Ill., purchased
a farm near Weathersfield where the father clied in 1854. The nlother
is still a resiclent of ICewanee, residing with her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth,
mife of John Moffitt. Of Williani Moffitt's children, six are living,
nmnely, John L., a minister of the Metl~oclist Episcopal churcli in Colorado
; George W., a resident of Stnrlc county, referred to in local
history ; &lar,y,aret L., mife of Fred Fleming, of Toulon township ;
Eleanor Z., mife of George Critzinan, of Kewanee, ancl Anne J., wife of
Jesse Fleming, a farmer of Elmira. The great-great-gmndfat11er mas
James Moffitt, ~7ho JI-~S the father of five chilclren, James, born in
If 89, Da.vid, Jane, William and John. William came to Pllilaclelphi,z
in 1831, James ih 1840, ancl David in 1845. Jane and her family
settled in Australia early in the forties. David ancl his family moved
from Philadelphia to Illinois; John went first to Scotland, but ultimately
came to the United States. Robert Nichol, David Moffitt's
father-in-law, mas a soldier in the British army, was in Jamaica fifty
years ago, ancl it is supposecl that some of his children are still there.
Many of the granclch~llren of those Moffitt's are today scattered
throughout the country, but the greater number of their cllilclren have
crossecl the unkno~i~n ocean.
Surnuel 2iIontootl~, born in Tyrone county, Ireland, in 1799, and his
wife, born there in 1810, came to the United States in 1830 a d to
Elmira township in 1558. Lieutenant Hunter, who married their
dau hter, mas killecl at Murfreesboro.
aohert -&loore, nuned in the history of Elrnira. township, wlro married
Margaret Clarlc, moved from Lancaster county, Pa., to St. Genevieve
county, Mo., in the spring of 1822, and operated a mill there
until 1S3!, when, as one of the Peoria colony, he purchasecl some clailns
in what 1s now Elinira township, this county, and toolc a full share in
its first improvement. His family consisted of four sons and six
daughters, all cleceased with the exception of Robert 31. Moore, of
Toulon. The latter carried on his Elmira farm for thirty years. In
1844 he inarried Miss Maria, claughter of' Hemes White; in 1874 this
lady clied, and the saine year the family movecl to Toulon. Samuel,
Orlando and Corydon, her sons, are favorably known here. The two
first-named are residents of Barton county, Mo., and the last of
Toulon township. His second marriage was with Mrs. Lucina Petteys
Van Dewater, a native of Oneida county, N. T. This lady's two
daughters are members of the Methoclist Episcopal church. Mrs.
Moore clied January 3, 1887, in her fifty-fourth year.
Geo~ge &ticway, son of Thomas and Janet (Scott) Murray, whose
history is given in this chapter, was born in Roxburghsllire, Scotland,
May 12,1840. He came to the United States with his parents in 1853,