Israel married Eliza Johnson on March 4, 1841 in Floyds Knobs, Indiana.
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Founder Of Mooresville Versatile Industrialist
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Editor's Note ----- The Tribune and its readers are indebted to Miss Edna Routh for an illuminating bit of history about the founding of Floyd Knobs, Mooresville by: her great-grandfather, James More.

She writes it by way of introduction in a sketch of "Forty years in Kansas," by her great-uncle, Richard Z. Moore, now living his 91st year at, 425 South Fountain Street, Wichita, Kansas. Mr. Moore still remembers young fellows like Uncle Jay Kraft and Charles (not legible).

By Edna Routh
Early in the last century James Moore, a school teacher from Albany, N.Y. migrated westward, and after passing the Falls of the Ohio on a flat-boat, encountered former friends from Albany, the Scribner. He decided to go no farther.

The first land which he acquired was in the "Apple Tree Garden" locality, but on account of a "chill and fever," epidemic, he pulled stakes and went over the knobs to what is now Floyd's Knobs (Mooresville).

At Mooresville he dammed the creek, thereby creating a millpond, one-half mile long. He had water mills of various kinds making articles such as cloth, shoes, combs, lumber and wood products, in fact anything which the pioneers needed. After his untimely death in 1834, his oldest son, being only a boy in his early teens, All James Moore's industries fell apart, one by one, and today they seem only legendary.

(not legible) great-granddaughter and the happenings of Old Mooresville, told to the me by my grandfather, Israel Moore, is ever vivid in my memory.

Today, the oldest living descendant of James Moore is a grandson, Richard Z. Moore of Wichita, Kansas, a namesake of his maternal grandfather, Richard Z. Johnson, who was killed in the Black Hawk War. Mr. Moore was born four miles from New Albany, April 5, 1851. On his 90th birthday, last April, he received 40 greeting cards besides dozens of letters, gifts and other remembrances, coming from seventeen states.

Woodworking is his favorite pastime and cane collecting his favorite hobby. One kind of cane that he is desirous of obtaining is a glass cane made here in New Albany at the old DePauw Class Works.

Recently, Mr. Moore, hale and hearty, but with hearing and sight impaired, journeyed from his Kansas home to "Old Mooresville" to meet old friends and attended the Schreiber-Moore reunion.

Before leaving Kansas, he wrote of his Kansas life to be read as his part of the reunion program.

His story will interest many Tribune readers who are through blood of friendship, connected with the Merriwether, Butler, Foust, Schreiber and Moore families.
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