Moore Slaves in Mercer County
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Moore Slaves in Mercer County
 mdavis02
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Posted: 19 Jul 2008 12:26PM GMT |
Classification: Biography
Surnames: Moore McAfee
I post this info so that these people will not be lost forever! Thomas Harberson Moore (1797-1869) inherited huge amounts of land on Shawnee Run in Mercer County, Kentucky. The 1860 Slave Schedule indicates T H Moore of Mercer County, KY had 15 slaves and two slave houses. There are memories about some of these slaves in a vanity press book by Gladys Harper whose title is: History of the Moore Family. It was published about 1946. The descendents of Thomas Harbeson Moore have contributed some letters, and mention a married couple, Aunt Judy and Uncle Mack. From the book, written by Dora Moore McFatridge, April 1946, Age 85:
"Grandpa was good to his colored family. They had nice warm, comfortable cabins. The same kind of eats was furnished their table that the whites ate. I often went to Aunt Judy's cabin. She was Grandma's cook--a dear old soul. Her cabin was spotlessly clean. Many were the times I would go to sleep and she tucked me away in her bed. Uncle Mack, her husband, would come in, and I have heard him say (when I began to wake up), "Judy, who's that you got in my bed?" ... "Little white angel," she would say. Then he'd lift me out, and what a romp we would have. I loved both of them. They were never black to me. Aunt Judy always kept pretty red apples, pop-corn, hickory nuts and home-made sugar in her cabin. She always set a little table and all these good things to eat when we went to see her. How could I ever forget such memories."
Dora Moore McFatridge continues on to mention that Aunt Judy had a son, Uncle Henry, who had a son named Tom. The book says:
"Uncle Henry was one of Cousin Ann Rayhill's and my father's playmates--one of Aunt Judy's children. He died not so long ago at the home of his son, Tom, in Louisville. I went to his funeral--he wanted to be laid away at home in Harrodsburg. He looked so peaceful, a smile on his face, hair white."
Since this was written April 1946, my guess is that this "Uncle Henry" died in the 1940s. There was no mention of a surname.
Also mentioned in this book is Ex McAfee and I have posted a separate entry for him under the African-American-Kentucky Message Board.
"Grandpa was good to his colored family. They had nice warm, comfortable cabins. The same kind of eats was furnished their table that the whites ate. I often went to Aunt Judy's cabin. She was Grandma's cook--a dear old soul. Her cabin was spotlessly clean. Many were the times I would go to sleep and she tucked me away in her bed. Uncle Mack, her husband, would come in, and I have heard him say (when I began to wake up), "Judy, who's that you got in my bed?" ... "Little white angel," she would say. Then he'd lift me out, and what a romp we would have. I loved both of them. They were never black to me. Aunt Judy always kept pretty red apples, pop-corn, hickory nuts and home-made sugar in her cabin. She always set a little table and all these good things to eat when we went to see her. How could I ever forget such memories."
Dora Moore McFatridge continues on to mention that Aunt Judy had a son, Uncle Henry, who had a son named Tom. The book says:
"Uncle Henry was one of Cousin Ann Rayhill's and my father's playmates--one of Aunt Judy's children. He died not so long ago at the home of his son, Tom, in Louisville. I went to his funeral--he wanted to be laid away at home in Harrodsburg. He looked so peaceful, a smile on his face, hair white."
Since this was written April 1946, my guess is that this "Uncle Henry" died in the 1940s. There was no mention of a surname.
Also mentioned in this book is Ex McAfee and I have posted a separate entry for him under the African-American-Kentucky Message Board.