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“CENTENARIAN PASSED ON – End to Ex-slave Last Evening, Age 102. – Lived in Slavery 46 Years - An Atchison Resident More Than 40 Years—Sick Only Two Weeks—Funeral Thursday.” - - From Tuesday’s Daily. Atchison's oldest resident, Mrs. Eliza Moore, colored, passed away last night, at 8:10, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Emma Campbell, 805 O Street. Mrs. Moore was more than 102 years of age, and was a really wonderful old lady. She was hale and hearty, and able to be about the little home of herself and her daughter, until two weeks before she passed away. Her eyesight never failed her, and she did not wear glasses, even after she had passed the century mark. She was pleasant and affable, retained a vivid memory of events of the early part of the past century, and until the past few weeks, was in possession of all of her faculties. Mrs. Moore was born in slavery in Kentucky, the heart of the slave country. For 40 years she lived in bondage, one of a coterie of slaves on the farms of John Linn. When a little girl of seven years, Mrs. Moore was taken by her master, with other slaves, to Clay County, Missouri, where they lived until the conclusion of the Civil War, and the issuance of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation which set the slaves free. Mrs. Moore's husband, John Moore, was also a slave on the Linn farm, but when the Civil War broke out he, with their son, enlisted in the Northern army, and fought through the battles of the war. Three children survive Mrs. Moore: Mrs. Emma Campbell, 805 O Street; Mrs. Sarah Harper, 1422 North Seventh Street, and John Moore, of Denver. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon, at 2 o’clock, at the Sawin & Douglass undertaking parlors. Interment will be in Oak Hill cemetery.Date(s) of Creation
1/12/1922
