Pike County Missouri Obituaries

LEVI S. MOORE

A useful and a good man, He died at his home two miles east of New
Hartford, Pike county, Mo., October 21, 1899. On Sunday, 22nd, he was buried in
the Indian Creek Church Cemetery, after funeral services conducted by R. S.
Duncan, assisted by Wiley J. Patrick.

Born October 31, 1817 a son of James Moore, and with him moved to Mis-
souri in 1819. Married Paulina J. Motley May 20, 1849. United with the Indian
Creek Baptist Church in January 1859 was clerk of said church forty years, and
was one of her pillars. Justice of the Peace for thirty years, being what the
office imports - a peace maker.

Levi Moore was a model man. Safe in counsel; a leader of men. Devoted
to his church, home and country. Positive, yet conservative in declining
health eighteen years, but patient and meek. His wife and five of his nine
children survive him.

Of those in the community when he settled in it, he was the last to die.
He was 82 years old, less ten days. Of of the "Old Guard." His life ante-
dated the history of Missouri as a state.

At his funeral, crowds of people paid a loving tribute to his memory.

DEATH OF LEVI SHELLHORSE MOORE
a Pike County Vetran [sic]

On Sunday, the 22nd of October, 1899, Levi S. Moore was buried at Indian Creek Baptist church, he having died on the day preceeding at 2:30 p.m., at his home, five miles south of Ashley, Pike county.

He was the fifth of a family of sic children, a son of James Moore and Elizabeth Shellhorse his wife, born October 31st 1817, and was hence only 10 days less than 82 years old. When he was an infant, his father removed to Missouri, then a territory, and after a sojourn of a few months in the "Settlement" on Loutre Island, Montgomery county, settled in 1819, in Pike county, about two miles south of the present town of Ashley, where he spent the residue of his life, and where the son Levi grew to manhood.

For eighty years Levi S. Moore lived in Pike county, and about sixty years ago he built the house at which he died.

On May 3rd, 1849, he married Paulina J. Motley, a daughter of Daniel Motley. The issue of this marriage was nine children, of whom are now living the following: Sarah F. Palmer, Mary S. Harrelson, Missouri C. Keith, Daniel W. Moore, and Lewis C. Moore. His wife also survives him.

Forty years ago, January 16th, 1859, he made a public avowel [sic] of his faith in Christ, and was received into fellowship by the Indian Creek Baptist church, having been baptized by R.S. Duncan, then a young minister. The month after he united with the church he was elected to the office of clerk, and remained as such till death, a period of over forty years. Even after his health failed him the church refused to elect a successor, but gave him an assistant.