Name/Title
Gerard Davis Moore, Elizabeth Ruth Taylor Moore and on their wedding dayEntry/Object ID
IMG2910Description
Three photographs mounted in a shadow box: individual photographs of Elizabeth Ruth Taylor Moore and Gerard Davis Moore and a photograph from the wedding of Elizabeth to Gerard.
On verso: "My grandmother, Elizabeth Ruth Taylor Moore (from Baltimore, Md) born -, married 3 August 1899 to Gerard Davis Moore, died - .
Gerard Davis Moore was my grandfather (from Jefferson Co, W. Va.) born 30 April 1857, Died 26 October 1923, My grandmother was his 3rd wife. They had 5 children. Their second child was Martha Newton Moore born 14 Feb 1902, married my father, Robert Ellsworth Appell 24 June 1924. I was their only child and Gerard and Elizabeth's only grandchild. My father died 27 July 1985 and my mother died 3 Oct 1988.
This is the wedding picture of Elizabeth Ruth Taylor to Gerard Davis Moore at the Taylor Estate in Maryland "Mount Prospect". The young girl standing by my grandfather was Mollie Thomson Moore, age 12, his daughter by his first marriage to Mollie Gunnell Thomson, who died several weeks after Molly was born. The Honor Attendant was Cousin c."Photograph Details
Subject Person or Organization
Moore, Gerard DavisAcquisition
Accession
253Source or Donor
Adams, RichardAcquisition Method
GiftMade/Created
Artist
Herbst, Charlestown, W. VA.Date made
1899