{"id":3261,"date":"2022-01-10T15:47:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3261"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:47:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:47:58","slug":"moorer-william-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/moorer-william-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Moorer, William H."},"content":{"rendered":"

William H. Moorer<\/strong>, a farmer of Lauderdale County, is a son of William A. and
\nHarriet B. (Jenkins) Moorer. His father was born in Orangeburg District,
\nS.C., July 29, 1807. The mother was a daughter of Rev. James Jenkins; she
\nwas born in Sumter District, S.C., March 27, 1814. They were married June 18,
\n1835, and had eight children, four sons and four daughters. The father was a
\nfarmer, and after marriage, in 1847, they came to Lauderdale County, settling
\nnear Durhamville; they were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
\nMr. Moorer, Sr., was a Democrat in politics. He died February 18, 1878. Mrs.
\nMoorer is still living. Our subject is of German descent on his father’s
\nside, and English-French descent on his mother’s, and was born in Orangeburg
\nDistrict, S. C., October 2, 1836. He remained on the farm with his parents,
\nuntil seventeen years old and received a good education. November 16, 1859,
\nhe married Fannie A. Henning, who was born in Lauderdale County, April 10,
\n1843, and by their marriage they had six children: Willie C., born March 6,
\n1863; Charles A., born September 23, 1866; Tee, born August 18, 1868; Harriet
\nA., born February 8, 1871; Fannie A., born December 22, 1872, and Greaves H.,
\nborn July 29, 1874, all of them now living. Mr. Moorer volunteered in 1861,
\nin the Seventh Tennessee Regiment of Cavalry, Confederate Army, and was in
\nseveral battles, and not wounded; he served as lieutenant until the close of
\nthe war. After this he continued farming. Mrs. Moorer was a member of the
\nMethodist Episcopal Church South, and died November 14, 1885. Mr. Moorer and
\nall of his children are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. In
\npolitics he is a Democrat, and is a Mason, and K. of H. He has been quite
\nsuccessful as a farmer and now owns 1,500 acres of good land, and has been a
\nresident of Lauderdale County for thirty-nine years, and is regarded as a
\nvaluable citizen and true gentleman.<\/p>\n

Goodspeed’s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William H. Moorer, a farmer of Lauderdale County, is a son of William A. and Harriet B. (Jenkins) Moorer. His father was born in Orangeburg District, S.C., July 29, 1807. The mother was a daughter of Rev. James Jenkins; she …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-moorer"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3270,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions\/3270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}