Ancestors

Elizabeth Frances Moore

Elizabeth Frances Hanger was born on 1 February 1850 in Missouri. Her father, Peter Adams Hanger, was a Virginian, and her mother, Elizabeth Carpenter, was born in Mississippi. In 1850 the family was in Washington County, Missouri. They later lived on Paint Rock Creek in southeast Shannon County. Her sisters and brothers included Sarah Hanger, who married Marion Tinker; Mary Jane Hanger, who married a Moore; Margaret A. Hanger, who married Wesley Hedrick; William H. "Bill" Hanger; and Peter A. Hanger.

She was a girl of fifteen in February 1865 when Union soldiers took her father from their home and shot him in the snow in Dixon Valley, Reynolds County. His body was not found until April.

On 30 September 1871 she married William M. Moore in Carter County, Missouri. They farmed near Van Buren and had nine children: John L., Luke Allen, Firman Deloes, Mary Elizabeth "Aunt Molly", Ida Mae, Robert Burns, George, Walter "Dick", and Austin "Hob". Their son George died in 1908.

In March 1913 she and William were living a short way below Van Buren. He came down with la grippe and pneumonia on 8 March, and she took sick about a week later. She died on the morning of 20 March 1913, aged 63, and was buried that afternoon in the cemetery near town. Her husband died two days later and was buried beside her. Her death certificate was given by F. D. Hanger. The clerk wrote her name as Mary Elisobeth Moon.

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Cite: Heirology, "Elizabeth Frances Moore (1850-1913)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/elizabeth-frances-moore-1850-1913-4b1049.