Notes for WILLIAM MOOR:

Son of ? and ?.
Born: 1821 in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
Died: 1864 in Southern Indiana State.
Married: Eliza Kier About 1842 in Unknown.

William Moor, was a native of Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, was Eliza Kier. They moved to Ohio a number of years ago and from Putnam county, that state, came to Isabella county. Michigan, in 1865, settling in the wilds of what is "now Fremont township. William Moor located on eighty acres of homestead land in section 7 and experienced all the hardships and vicissitudes incident to life in the back woods. For some time he acted as "tote man"' for the settlers west of the Big Cedar swamp, drawing supplies from Hubbardston and Ionia with a team of horses, the meanwhile as opportunity afforded, felling the forest, grubbing the ground and preparing his land for tillage. Later he devoted bis entire attention to the improvement of his land and in due time succeeded in developing a fine farm and a comfortable home. This he sold out and moved to the southwest part of Indiana, both dying there some years ago.
(Source: Past and present of Isabella County, Michigan By Isaac Alger Fancher, Myrta Wilsey Burwash)