MOORE, Elizabeth Nugent - Putnam

Died September 30, 1889 at her residence four miles southeast of Greencastle, Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, widow of the late Thomas A. Moore.

Mrs. Moore was born in Hawkins County, Tennessee on the 25th day of April 1808. She was the youngest child of James and Mary Nugent and the last surviving member of their family.

Her mother was a lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church and raised her daughter in that faith. However in her 18th or 19h year, Mrs. Moore, under the minister of Rev. George White, a local Methodist preacher united with the Methodist Episcopal Church of which she continued a consistent member till her death a period of 62 years.

In her 23rd year she was united in marriage with Thomas A. Moore, a Methodist class leader and native of Campbell County, Virginia. About four years after her marriage she removed with her husband to Putnam

County, Indiana here she made her home form that time till her death.

Her earlier year sin her new home in Indiana were years of the peculiar hardship, toil, and privation incident to frontier life, but these were intensified in her case by the fact that her husband after a few years became an invalid, by which the care and nurture of a growing family was very largely left to her. With such help as her yhoung children could render she literally fed and clothed them, often spinning wool and flax which she after wove into cloth from which she made their clothes and often she had to superintend the gathering and dressing of the flax and the shearing and cleansing of the wool which she afterwards spun and wove.

She and her husband were among earliest Methodists in their new Indiana home and they were diligent in organizing this church in their neighborhood. The itinerant preacher, of the early day always found a

welcome at her home, and her house was often the place where he held his religious services for churches were few and far between and religious services were generally held in the open air or in the settlers' cabin.

She was the mother of 9 children, all of whom survive. It was her peculiar happiness that of all her descendants but one, an infant grandchild, has ever died and this one she never saw.  The one great sorrow of her life was the death of her husband who died on the fourth day of May, 1853. His was the only funeral that ever occurred in her immediate family. In this her life may be called peculiarly happy.  In all the relations of life as wife, mother,neighbor, friend, she was a model.

The latter years of her life were spent in comparative comfort free from anxiety or care about her future in life, in a good home with her children on the farm she and her husband had by severe toil redeemed for

the wilderness, and with books and papers to instruct enlighten and amuse. Here was a serene and happy old age.

Her last sickness was long and painful but it did not find her unprepared, and she bore all with patience and with out complaint.  The last hours of her life were apparently free from pain, and she passed away without a struggle, without a murmur, without a sigh as gently as dies the summer breeze away, she died as she lived, a Christian and has doubtless realized the Christian Hope to be "Forever with the Lord!"