Obits: Moore, Hannah,  died  05/21/1948
Oct. 2002
Wolfe County, KY 

Submitted by: http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000062 
Wolfe County Genealogy and  Carole Bays
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Wolfe County News, May 28, 1948

AUNT HANNAH MOORE DIES AT PINE RIDGE MONDAY EVENING

"Aunt" Hannah Moore, 89, whose childhood as an orphan taught her 
lessons of charity and human kindness which she spent her lifetime putting 
into practice and gained the love of hundreds of people in this county 
died quietly Monday, May 21.

In ill health for several months, she had been making her home with Mr. 
and Mrs. Finley Hanks at Pine Ridge where she died about 5:30 in the 
afternoon.

Aunt Hannah, as she was affectionately known in the community was born 
in 1859 on Hiram's Branch.  Orphaned, with a sister and brother, at the 
age of eight, she lived fo a number of years with an uncle on the 
Kentucky River.  The other children were taken to the home of another uncle 
in Indiana.  By the time she was 16, she was earning her own living, 
doing housework for 50 cents a weeks or hoeing corn for 25 cents a day.

Later she moved to Campton to tend house for a couple who operated a 
store there, receiving $2 per week in wages.  By frugality, she saved 
enough money to purchase a small house and lot here, in which she made her 
home.  Later an oil company leased a portion of her lot to erect some 
buildings, including a four room dwelling, and later she moved to this 
house, renting the larger one she had occupied.

Into her home came many young people, some seeking a home while they 
secured an education, and to these youths she was both friend and 
councilor.  Many elderly ladies found refuge in her home rather than spending 
the evening of their lives in an institution.

It was her concern for others and her constant devotion to her Campton 
Methodist Church which made her life outstanding in the community.

In 1942, the brother, of whom she had not heard since a child, died in 
California and left her a legacy of almost $7,000. A portion of this 
she donated toward the erection of a new building to house the church she 
had loved and served for 60 years.  Her property, she had told friends, 
would go to the church at her death.

Funeral services were conducted at the Methodist Church at 2:00 Tuesday 
afaternoon by the pastor, Rev. J.H. Lewis.  Interment followed in the 
Evans Cemetery at the edge of town.

Two requests concerning her funeral - 1. that her body not be embalmed.  
2.  that no flowers be sent in tribute save those grown in the yards of 
her friends - were carried out.



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