Richard E.F. Moore

Richard E.F. Moore - The subject of this sketch was born in Green County, Kentucky, October 11,1825. When but five years of age. his parents moved to Missouri, locating in Callaway County, and followed farming for five years, when they moved to Monroe County, same State, where the subject of this sketch resided until his coming to California, in the meantime having learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed until April, 1850, when in that year, in company with one brother and two nephews, he started with ox-teams across the plains to the Golden State, and, after a trip of five months, arrived in Weaverville, Placer County, California, where he followed mining until the fall of 1851, when he returned via Panama to his home in Missouri. Again, in 1853 he started across the plains with a drove of cattle to California. On arriving in the Sacramento Valley, he sold his interest in the stock and located at Gold Hill and engaged in the grocery business, where he resided until the fall of 1855. In 1857 he came to Napa County, and leased his present place, and in 1858 bought the same, consisting of four hundred and eighty acres, eight miles from Napa City. He was united in marriage, near Soscol, January 22, 1862, to Miss Hannah Davis. They have three living children, Mary A., William C. and Lelia Ada.

History of Napa and Lake Counties,: San Francisco, Cal.: Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers, 1881
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, February, 2007 Page 527

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