The Family of Margaret Moore Deffenbaugh

Assembled by Ralph Thomas Deffenbaugh January 2011

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Margaret Moore was born June 1 1846 to John A Moore and Jane Moss.. They were married January 7, 1869. Henderson Stewart Deffenbaugh was born March 26, 1845 in New Salem, Pennsylvania to Nicholas E. Deffenbaugh and Henrietta Schroyer of McClellandtown. Margaret is the great grand-daughter of Captain John Moore who settled in Redstone Township, adjacent to German and Menallen Townships. All photos are from her photo album.

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Mary Moss , wife of John A. Moore with Margaret Moore

Captain John Moore, the first member of this family about whom we have definite information, came from Maryland and settled in Fay-ette county, Pennsylvania, owning lands in what are now Redstone and German townships. From March 17, 1769, the farm now owned by his great-grandson, John C. Moore, has been in the family. At first, while he was prospecting, he lived in a hut, devoting himself to hunting and prospecting, and for six weeks saw no human being. He became a prominent character in the early history, and served in the revolu-tion, with a good record, and received the rank of captain. He married Margaret Colvin. Children: George, John, Aaron, of whom further; Rezin, Ezekiel, William, Rachel, Hannah. From Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, edited by Jordan and Hadden 1912, Volume 1 Page 259 No specific information on John A. Moore provided.

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Mary Haney , wife of Aaron

Aaron, son of John and Margaret (Colvin) Moore, was born July 7, 1777, died October 6, 1872. He lived on the Moore home-stead in German township, farming two hundred fifty acres of land. At first a Whig, he was in his later days a Republican. His religion was the Presbyterian. He married, December 14, 1802, Mary Haney, who died August 26, 1873. Children: Mary, born December 5, 1803, died January 19, 1809; Margaret, born December 7, 1805; John A., born April 10, 1808, died December 29, 1889, married, March 27, 1834, Jane Moss, seven children:' Mary, born April 29, 1811, married Warwick Miller, two sons and six daughters; William A., born May 24, 1814, (q. v.); Aaron, born January 19, 1818; Abraham, From Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, edited by Jordan and Hadden 1912, Volume 1 Page 259

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Clockwise from Top Left: 1. Anna Moore, sister of Marga-

ret 2. Mary Addie (Adeline) mar-

ried Alex Black, sister of Mar-garet.

3. Clark Haney, cousin of Mar-garet, Son of Jane Moss’ Sister Anna

4. Abraham Moore, Margaret’s Cousin, Son of William Moore

5. Rilla Moore, wife of Abraham. 6. Aaron Moore, Margaret’s

Cousin, Son of William, Brother of Abraham

7. John C Moore, Father of 8. Margaret

CLARK B HANEY, Below: a gallant survivor of the late Civil War, was born on theWilliam Moore farm in Menallen township, Fayette county, Penna. His father, John Haney, was born on the old original Haney farm in German township, October 6, 1806, and died in 1884. The grandfather of CB Haney was also born on the same farm. C B Haney's great grandfather, William Haney, was the founder of the Haney family in Fay-ette county and original landowner next to John Moore. . C B Haney's mother, Ann Moss, daughter of Jacob Moss, was born in German township, July 13, 1807. She was married to John Haney in 1832. Her sister is Jane Moss. Clark is Margaret’s first cousin.

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Clockwise from Top Left: 1. Lena Ella and Laura Lilley,

daughters of Thomas Jefferson Lilley, brother of Ruth (Cousins of Margaret

2. Emma Jane (b. .2-17-1859) and Stella May Lilley, Sisters of Ella and Laura

3. Hettie Jeffries, possibly daughter of Anna Moore Jeffries

4. Jeffries, include family photo H.S. Deffenbaugh children

5. Jeanine Jeffries, possibly sister of Hettie

6. Ellen Moss, cousin 7. Robert Moss, cousin 8. Samuel Moss, cousin

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Clockwise from Top Left: 1. Thompson Moss, cousin 2. Thomas Deffenbaugh, New

Salem Shopkeeper and brother of Margaret’s hus-band

3. William Moss Cousin 4. Lydia Hazlett, relationship

unknown 5. Thomas Miller 6. William McMullen 7. William Jones 8. William Deffenbaugh, Son

of Jacob, Grandson of Big Jake.

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Clockwise from Top Left: 1. Albert Deffenbaugh, son of Joseph, Grandson of Big

Jake, born 1844 2. Margaret’s Photo Album where are these photos

were found.

Excerpts from : FAYETTE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF ITS Pioneers and Prominent Men. EDITED BY FRANKLIN ELLIS. P 423 and 424 These were the considerations which induced multitudes of western bound travelers to lay their route over the road which brought them to the Monongahela at Redstone Old Fort. Such as could conveniently make the arrange-ment usually chose the latter part of the winter for their exodus, because at that season the friendly snow still lin-gered upon the roads, and mitigated in some degree the horrors of the passage from the mountains to the river. If they had rightly timed their journey, and the melting time came soon after their arrival at the place of embarka-tion, then all was well with them, but if the spring thaws delayed their coming, and the shivering, homesick way-farers were compelled to remain for weeks (as was sometimes the case) in their comfortless shelters, awaiting an opportunity to proceed on their way, then their condition was pitiable indeed. " John Moore, a very early settler, used to relate" (says Judge Veech) "that in the long, cold winter of 1780, a prototype of those of 18'iG-5J. the snow being three or four feet deep and crusted, he said the road from Sandy Hollow (Brubaker's) to the verge of Brownsville, where William Hogg lived, was lined on both sides with wagons and families, camped out, waiting for the loosing of the icy bonds from the waters and the preparation of boats to embark for the West, the men dragging in old logs and stumps for fuel to save their wives and children from freezing." Page 653 Another son of Ebenezer Finley the elder, living in Menallen on a portion of the early Finley purchase, is Eli H., whose home is near the village of New Salem. There is an amusing story told of the appearance of Rev. James Finley and Philip Tanner in the Dunlap's Creek Valley. It recites that Messrs. Finley and Tanner rode up to the house of Capt. John Moore, of German township, and upon their near approach were espied by Capt. John's youthful son Aaron, who, running as fast as : he could into the house, cried out almost breathlessly to his father, " Pap, pap, there be two great men out there. I know they're great men 'cause they've got boots on." Evidently " men with boots on" must have been rare objects in that country at that day.

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Page 723 Capt. John Moore, a famous figure in Redstone's early history, was a settler as early as 1770 in the southern por-tion of the present ownship, upon a farm until recently owned by John and William Moore. Capt. Moore came out to prospect, and lived six weeks in a hut. During that time he devoted himself to hunting and land-looking, and saw no human being until one day at the end of six weeks he encountered old Billy Davis, who was living in German township, and who, like Moore, was living in a hut alone while considering the matter of making a new home in the wilderness. Page 730 In 1809, Johnson Van Kirk (whose father, William, was a Revolutionary soldier) rented a piece of land near Mer-rittstown, and farmed it until 1816, when he moved into the Finley settlement in Bedstone, where he had pur-chased two hundred and thirty acres of land of John Moore's heirs. This John Moore was a man of considerable note among the pioneers, and as especially famous as a skillful manufacturer of spinning-wheels. Pages 725-726 Ebenezer Finley played a conspicuous part in a perilous adventure with Indians near Fort Wallace in 1776. " Finley' had gone from Dunlap's Creek on a short tour of militia duty to the frontier as a substitute for Samuel Finley, then in charge of the Finley farm. While Finley was at Fort Wallace tidings were brought by a man on horseback in breathless haste that Indians had made their appearance at a little distance ; that he had left two men and a woman on foot trying to make their way to the fort ; and that unless immediately protected or rescued they would be lost. Some eighteen or twenty men, among whom was young Finley, started immediately for their rescue. About a mile and a half from the fort they came unexpectedly upon a considerable force of savages. They were for a while in the midst of them. A sharp fire began immediately, and a zig-zag running fight took place. Our people making their way back toward the fort, numbers of them were shot down or tomahawked. " Finley's gun would not go off. He stopped for a moment to pick his flint and fell behind. An Indian was seen leveling his gun at him, but was fortunately shot down just at the moment. Being fleet of foot, Finley was soon abreast of his companions, and in passing around the root of a tree, by a quick motion of his elbow against his companion's shoulder, succeeded in passing him, when, the next moment, this comrade sunk beneath the stroke of a tomahawk. A Mr. Moore, seeing Finley's imminent danger from a bridge upon which he stood, stopped, and by his welldirected fire again protected him and enabled him to pass the bridge. , At last, after several doublings and turnings, the Indians being some-times both in the rear and ahead of him, he reached the fort in safety. But the most remarkable part of the matter remains to be told. Mr. Finley, the father, then at home east of the mountains, three hundred miles off, had, as he thought, one day a strange, undefinable impression that his son was in imminent danger of some kind, but he could form no distinct conception of its nature or cause. He betook him-self to intense and agonizing prayer for his son, continued in this exercise for some time, felt at length relieved and comforted, as though the danger was past. It was altogether to himself an extraordinary thing, such as he had never before experienced. He made a note of the time. A few weeks afterwards he received from his son an ac-count of his narrow escape from death. The time corresponded exactly with the time of Mr. Finley's strange ex-perience. This is the substance of the statement we have received. Its accuracy, in its most essential features, may be relied on. What shall we say of it? Mr. Finley was a man of most scrupulous veracity. We leave the simple statement of the case to the reflections of the reader”

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John Moore’s Property next to Rev James Finley and William Haney. Two of John’s chil-dren married Haney’s. Aaron married Mary Haney and Rachel married Sam Haney. Photo at right is from cemetery looking east at the Moore Homestead. Johnson Van Kirk purchased 230 acres from John Moore in 1809 after Van Kirk purchased the Finley prop-erty. according to Ellis. from Early Landowners of Pennsylvania Atlas of Township Warrantee Maps of Fayette County 2nd Edition Sharon MacInness

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Captain John Moore’s Farm is in Redstone Township and the north portion of German Township. These are 1872 maps and locate numerous Moore homes on the original parcel. The J and W Moore home in Redstone is the remaining farmhouse on the farm and is near the cemetery as shown above. Captain John Moore;’s Grandson’s Aaron, John A, Abraham and Wil-liam appear to own the homes on the farm.

Captain John Moore’s Farm is 343 acres and the main farmhouse is still on the property as is the cemetery which is the small rectangle of trees in the middle of the field next to the dirt house running northwest from the farmhouse, Capt. Moore served in the war of 1776, and won a record for more than common bravery. Upon the old Moore place in 1778 he planted an apple-tree that still bears largely of fruit. He brought it over the moun-tains along with a half-dozen others in his saddle-bags. Capt. Moore died in Redstone, and was buried on the old Moore farm.. Per Ellis,

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Captain John Moore’s Farm is 343 acres and the main farmhouse is still on the property as is the cemetery which is the small rectangle of trees in the middle of the field , see photos, at right. The cemetery was kept not only for the Moore family, but for sur-rounding neighbors. A fence surrounds this burial plot, and the lot is badly overgrown with sumac." Records below by (Lee Donovan) ljdonovan@aol.com

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