Date of birth: 03 Jan 1843
Date of death: 12 Dec 1903

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Burial Information

Section 04 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0200-01
Status: Occupied

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Veteran Information

Branch: CSA - Co. 1, 12th Miss Infantry
Rank: PVT - Private
Years Served: 24 Apr 1861 -\t09 Apr 1865
War/Campaign: CIVIL WAR

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Notes

Birth: 03 Jan 1843
Death: 12 Dec 1903 - Lexington, Holmes Co., MS

Marriage: 01 Feb 1866

Obituary

Joseph Moore
Confederate Veterans

Meeting of Holmes county Camp

United Confederate Veterans No. 398

The following tribute to the memory of Comrade Joseph Moore was unanimously adopted:
Joseph Moore was born Jan. 6, 1843 and died at his home near Lexington, Miss. Dec., 12, 1903. In his young manhood he offered his services to his country of the Southland and did faithful duty as a soldier in Co. 1, 12th Miss., Reg. Inf'ty until August 1864, a gunshot wound in the left thigh disabled him for further service as a soldier, and ever after left him a cripple. He did not get home until May 1865, but took up the duties of a peaceful citizen, ever after faithfully discharged every obligation that the church or state imposed upon him.

Feb. 1st 1866 he was married to Miss M. C. Hampton and thus assumed other and greater responsibilities that he discharged with such signal success that his neighbors respected him, his wife revered and loved him and his children rise up and call him blessed.

His church made him a Steward and Sunday School Superintendent and it is sufficient to say that he was a good one. His county twice elected him its treasurer and the records show nothing against him and that his official acts were approved and endorsed by all good citizens. Modest, diffident, unassuming in all things yet he was firm and courageous in the performance of his obligations. He was a member of Castalian Lodge No. 139 of Masons and lived to its obligations. He was the treasurer of Holmes County Camp United Confederate Veterans and loved to meet his comrades and enjoy social pleasures with them.

A good citizen, a faithful Christian, a true husband, a fond loving father He leaves a wife and eight children to mourn his death yet they mourn not as those who have no hope, for his life was so fully devoted to his duties, to his Savior, his family and his country, that to know him was to love him, and all believe that he has entered that rest that remains to the people of God.

Lexington Advertiser
Holmes County, Mississippi
Thursday, 07 Jan 1904 p. 1

Research Notes

Place of death and marriage date added per obituary.

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