Georgia MOORE was born in Columbus Mississippi. She married John Harding MCGAVOCK on 1 December 1853 in Presbyterian Church in Columbus, Mississippi.
Property: Personal maid named Margaret
Wedding Party: Randall & Sally McGavock, Ellen Mallone, India Sykes, Georgia Sykes, 2 of brides of brothers
Children of Georgia Moore and John Harding McGavock:
Richard Edward Irwin
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Name: Georgia A. MOORE
Sex: F
Birth: 24 AUG 1833 in Oglethorpe, Georgia
Marriage 1 John Harding MCGAVOCK b: 3 OCT 1823 in Davidson County, Tennessee
Children
Susan John MCGAVOCK b: 23 MAY 1857 in Arkansas
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Name: Georgia MOORE
Given Name: Georgia
Surname: Moore
Sex: F
Note:
According to Georgia's niece Annie, Georgia had a granddaughter named
Georgia Williamson.
The following is taken from a paper written by Mrs Dudley Hardy of
Blytheville Ark.
Clarence Moore was Mr Hardy's great grandfather, and Georgia Moore was
his great, great aunt:
Georgia Moore McGavok was among the earliest settlers in Mississippi County,
Arkansas. She married John Harding McGavock on December 1,1853, in Columbus
MS. As a wedding gift from the groom's uncle, (*actually was his grandfather)
General John Harding of Belle Mead, Nashville,Tennessee, the couple recieved
10,000 acres of land in Mississippi County, Arkansas, some of it along
the Mississippi River. In 1854, the young couple arrived at their plantation
which was located about five miles south of what is today Osceola. The
couple named their place "Sans Souci" and built its plantation
house soon after 1854. In French, Sans Souci means "without care."
This turned out to be an ironic name, for in December 1861, only eight
years after they were married and came to live at Sans Souci, Georgia's
husband died, and shortly after that her only son died at age seven. After
her husband's untimely death,
Georgia returned to Columbus to try to be of help in the Southern cause.
She served as a nurse in her brother-in-law's hospital and also smuggled
medicines for the Confederacy in trips from Columbus to Memphis and to
Sans Souci. During the early part of the war, Georgia's younger brother,
Judge Clarence L. Moore, came up from Columbus to take charge of Sans
Souci. Georgia Moore McGavock returned to Sans Souci after the Civil War.
The plantation house had been used as a hospital for General Pope's troops
and was desolate, showing blood stains and augur holes that had been bored
to allow some of the blood to run under the house. The old plantation
house was destroyed by fire in 1921. The area is now known as Sans Souci
landing. The old home had seen sad days --losing its owner and the owner's
young son in untimely deaths, the Civil War and Reconstruction period,
and losing a grandson in World War I. Even if the name Sans Souci ("without
care") was not always true, it is still likely that these early settlers
and their descendants also enjoyed many happy times there.
Father: Joseph Ivy MOORE b: 1784 in Prince Edwards Co VA
Mother: Elizabeth Whiting GREGORY b: 1797 in Oglethorpe Co GA
Marriage 1 William ERWIN
Married: 1868
Children
Georgia ERWIN
Marriage 2 John Harding MCGAVOCK
Married: 1 Dec 1853 in Columbus MS
Children
Susan MCGAVOCK b: 23 May 1857
John MCGAVOCK b: Sep 1855