Autograph Book of William Wheatley Moore

"I inherited a red covered autograph book (3-1/4 x 5-1/2 in) with a red bird singing at her house's door in a tree. A mate is in flight bringing straw for a nest. There are green leaves and a brown birdhouse. This book was probably given to my great-grandfather William Wheatley MOORE when he moved from Indiana to Kansas in 1882. His first wife had died and he left with his son, William Levi to start anew in Kansas." - -  Submitted by: Carolyn Frerking

In William Wheatley MOORE's autograph book are the following signatures from friends and family he left behind:

(Page 1) Decemer 25, 1881/ Friend Billy / May you accept this little offering as a token of friendship. And may its bright pages contain nothing but true sentiments of friendship. They to be lasting and ever to be cherished by you is the wish of your friends / Mrs. Sorta (?) PINE and Mr. Aliex DRUMBILKO [Drumkilbo?]

(Page 2) April 22nd, 1882, Let this be your motto "Worth makes the man / the want of it the fellow" / Yours truly Joseph H. NORRIS

(Page 3) May the 25, Your a lover of that range / My love for you / Shall never change / And if it does it shall be strange / Mollie LANE

(Page 4) May 10 1882 / Remmeber[sic] me when this you / see though man a mile / a part we be / Your friend / Nettie SPARROW

(Page 5) May the 24 1882 / Oft in tender recolection / Oh think of me as a friend / Cherish me with fond affection / Which I hope will never end / Ida STEELSMITH

(Page 6) Cherryvale [Kansas] April the 19 1882 / It tis a dull world my friend / We all went one way / Yet our paths will meet doubt at the end / though they lead apart to day / From your true friend / Nell EDGERSLEY

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(Page 8) 5.12.1882. / Mr. Moore / "Life is a leaf of paper white, / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two and then comes night / Greatly begin! Though thou have time / But for a line, be that sublime, -- / Not failure but low aim is crime." / Lida WILEY / Elizaville, Ind.

(Page 9) [A cardboard cutout of a hand holding a rose with a cherub within is glued on the left-had side of the page] April the 23, 1882 / Cherryvale, Kansas / Remember me when rocks and / hills divide us and if you / no longer see, remember / the name of Mina and I will remember the name of thee / Miss Mina A. MICHAELS [later became his second wife]

(Page 10] Dear Uncle -- / In the book of life, "God's Album," / May your name be penned with care. / And may all who here have/ written / Write your name forever there. / Yours Truly / Dollie MOORE / May 5th 1882 / Indianapolis, Ind.

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(Page 13) December 25 1881 / Friend Billy / May you live long in the world / to enjoy many blessings that / life may have in store for / you is the wish of your / True friend W. E. DRUMKILBO [?]

(Page 14) [has a small rose sticker] Elizaville Ind. May the 11, 1882 / The world hath its delights and its delusions to / But home to clamer bliss / invites [?] more tranquil and more true / Your sister / Nancy MOORE

(Page 15) Kimberlin Ind. May 11 1882 / Dear Uncle / Where rocks and hills divide us / And we can each other / no longer see / Just take your pen and / drop a line to me / Your niece Lora BLACK [or CLARK]

(Page 16) May the 8 1882 / Not like the rose may our friendship wither / But like the evergreen live forever / Yore friend / Belle CLAMPITT

(Page 17) At evening when you you stray / think of a friend that is far away / think of me at parting times / think of the one that wrote these lines / Your friend / Pony McNIEL

(Page 18) May 1 1882 / Remember me when this you see / Remember me at parting day / Aand [sic] if my face no more you see / Look on these lines and think of me / W. A. SPARROW / Kimberlin / Ind

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(Page 20) 1882 / Independence Kan. / April 21st / Round as the ring that / Has no end so is my / Love for you my friend / Miss Flora N.

(Page 21) Independence Kansas / April 21, 1882 / Remember me when this you see / Tough (sic) many a mile apart we be / Though in a far off land / You can read the writings of my hand. / Miss Lizzie NORRIS

(Page 22) April 21st / Always do right. be kind / and true and if you / never see me again / remember what I tell you. / Elizabeth E. MOORE

(Page 23) 1st When fairer forms around the [sic] glide, / and all is mirth and glee, / I ask the [sic] but to pause awhile, / and give one thought of me./ 2nd Last in your album, last in your thought, first to be remembered, last to be forgot. / Ara May OSBORN [along the side] Sunday April 23rd 1882

(Page 24) In the book of life with an angels pen / may your name dear friend be writ in / with the loved earth may you meet again / on the peaceful shores of heaven / April 23rd 1882 / Susanah OSBORN

(Page 25) May the 10 1882 / fate decrees that I must leave you / and the our (sic) is drawing night / when the word is to be spoken and i have come to say good by / your friend / Mary E. SPARROW

(Page 26) When days are dark and tasks are hard / Remember me with kind regard. / Your friend / Fannie MILLER

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(Page 28) May the 7 1882 / We meet upon the level, and we part / upon the square / What words of precious meaning those / words masonic are / William Allen SPARROW/ Kimberlin Ind.

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(Page 30) May the 16 1882 / When in some far and distant plain / Turn here your eyes and read my name / Think of a friend so kind and true / That never again may meet with you / Your friend / Mollie DUNHAM

(Page 31) When traveling through / the Kansas land / Remember this friend / that is now at hand / Yours / Frank BAKER

(Page 32) A friend you need, / A friend you must have / And none so true can you find as Jesus. / J. W. SHELL

(Page 33) Do all the good you can, to all / the people you can, in every / place you can. This is the / advice of a friend. / Hannah SHELL

(Page 34) Indianapolis May 28 -- 82 / Friend Will / When this you see remember / your old work mate though / carpenter he be / A. H. HAINES [Facing page] May 28th 1882 / Indianapolis Ind. Lettie HAINES 70 Shell St. [?]

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(Page 36) May 26 1882 / When this you see rember [sic] me and / him if such his holey [sic] will / our bodies to recall who whispers to / the winds be still and they his loves command fulfill. / Rose FISHER

(Page 37) Remember me / When this you / see. W. D. LANE

(Page 38) May the 16 1882 / Remember me when this you see / Though many a mile apart we be / And if the grave first be my lot / Dearest friend forget me not / Yours truly / Mollie DUNHAM

(Page 39) May 23 / Wherever you dwell may content / be your lot / And friendship like joy encircle your lot / Each rosy morn may your mind / be at peace / and the true joys of life ever increase. / Your Friend Miss M. J. S.--

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