MARY ELIZABETH MOORE GARRISON
By Bettie Swofford Heatherly
Mary Elizabeth Moore was born Oct. 16, 1858 in Stone Co. MO. She was the daughter of William and Mary Ann Clinkenbeard Moore. They died before she was grown leaving her to care for her two younger brothers. She lived on a high bluff at the mouth of Big Indian Creek. It is the area now known as Baxter Boat Dock.
I do recall her telling of having a pet deer and having wild turkey to eat. Living near White River they very well could have had fish and perhaps the boys were able to hunt squirrel and rabbits.
She was a rather tall, thin woman. She wore her hair in a bun as most older women of that day did. She smoked a pipe which was a little unusual even for her time. No one seemed to mind and the grandchildren would bring her tobacco as presents. Jerry Swofford nick named her “grandma Smokey” when he was a little boy.She didn’t talk much in the days that I knew her. She was pleasant and would do little jobs of work for mom when Mom could be persuaded to think of something she could do. It usually consisted of churning butter in a fruit jar which she just gently rocked until there were hundreds of tiny butterballs and sometime she persuaded Mom to let her card the wool bats for quilts which Mom made.
I am describing the only grandparent that I was acquainted with. I was eleven when we brought her from Idaho to live with us and Mom’s sisters Lizzie and Lucy. She would have been about 79 or 80. I wish I had listened to her stories and sat near her and just talked to her. How I cheated myself out of wonderful history that she would have gladly given. Of course it is happening today. I have had one granddaughter, Carrie, who actually ask me to write and tell her what it was like when I was young. It would be interesting to know what she really thinks about all the history she will receive!!!! Maybe information she really didn’t want to know!!!!
Mary Moore married Francis Marion Garrison on Dec. 1, 1881 in Stone Co. MO. They had eleven children. Three died when young and one, Laura, died at age nineteen. They lived in Stone County when they first married but bought a farm on Kings River sometime before 1900. It was a beautiful place and I recall going there at least once when grandma lived there and many times when Uncle John owned it. They had a house with a large front porch and living room and kitchen with a stairway dividing them There were bedrooms upstairs. An extra room was built on at the back at a later date, perhaps during Uncle John’s ownership. The house set at the edge a field which separated them from the river. Now there is a large settlement there called Royal Point along the lakeside.
Grandma Mary Garrison lived about six years in Nampa, Idaho. She was living with her son Dan in a tiny house along a railroad track. My parents went to get her in 1941. I recall she began to get ready to come home with us just as soon as we arrived and Mom had to tell her she could take her time since we were going to visit a few days. We had bought a new 41 Chevrolet in Berryville, Ark. and Mom had sold her gray horse that Uncle John had given her for her part in their parents place. Her condition for putting that money in on the car was that we go to Idaho and get Grandma. You see Grandpa Garrison had just left Grandma with a child’s part of the home place. That was the way many of the deeds and wills were written up in those days. Women had few rights and our Grandmothers and even Mothers felt the full extent of those customs.
I don’t believe Grandma Mary Garrison could read nor write. But she would often say, “My Bible says so and so”. I do not know what her profession of faith was, but I do know that she could sense things that amazed us. For instance, when Uncle Mart was killed in a truck load of hay accident, Mom, Lizzie and Lucy decided that since she was so old they would not worry her with telling her about it. She didn’t hear that often from Mart’s family and since she didn’t read the secret could be kept. One day, as was her habit, she was walking in the yard with her cane, smoking her pipe, and when she came into the house, she said matter of factually, “Mart is dead ain’t he”. Mom admitted that he was and she said, “I just knew he was”.
One funny thing that I will always remember about Grandma Garrison. In the winter time Mom would have me sleep with Grandma so I could hold up the covers when Grandma wanted to turn over. Now you would have had to visit my Mom in the winter to realize what I am talking. Since they kept no fire in the stoves at night —afraid of fire—-she was not about to let you get cold. So she piled on the quilts. Grandma had a chamber pot by the bed, but I usually just went outside but not all the way to the chicken house to the toilet—but usually just squatted in the yard. Don’t laugh, you should have been there.!!!After all the nearest neighbor was a good mile away.!!!! Besides we always had two or three dogs who where my protectors. One of them was named Trixie. She was white with a black head. Trixie often had the privilege of staying in the house when it was real cold or anytime else when she could manage it.
On this particular night I had made my trip outside and was crawling back in bed when Grandma woke and began kicking with both feet and saying, “Bettie, that little dog is getting in bed with us”. Well, I got so tickled that I took several kicks before I could explain that it was me and not the dog. We giggled and giggled about it. What was so funny to me was this little old lady who couldn’t turn over unless I lifted the covers for her had raised both her legs and giving some good swift kicks.
I was very sad when Grandma died. We had gotten to have that special relationship that grandparents and grandkids have. Even though I missed out on many things through my lack of interest in this person who seemed so “old” to me, I will always be thankful for having the time with this lady, my Grandma Mary Elizabeth Garrison.
MOORE
FAMILY HISTORY
This family history represents an opportunity lost. I could have had a lot of information had I been interested in family history. My grandma Mary Elizabeth Moore Garrison lived with us for about 3 years (1941-45). She would often tell her stories, and like many other family stories that I had heard so many times, never would I forget them—but I have. (See the biography of this lady.)
This is also one family that I have run into a brick wall as far as tracing the direct line of ancestors. The work completed is to Levi Moore born in 1790 and died about 1842. Research shows he was in Richmond , Madison Co. Ky. when his son William was born about 1808. Where and who his parents were is still in doubt. There is a will of Levi Moore recorded Jan. 18, 1845 in Warren co. Ky. which he names a son Levi. But no guarantee this Levi Jr. is our line.
Another interesting piece of research show a Levi Moore marriage to Polly Heatherly in Madison Co. Ky. marriages in 1816. This Polly is the daughter of Leonard Heatherly. If this information had proved true, Al and I would have been related.!! But that is too late a date for our William born in 1808 to have been their son. Aunt Lucy says Levi Moore’s wife was Mary Ann (Polly) Ford. No information found in any documentation to prove it. But Aunt Lucy did a lot of research and had good recall of family members plus being a Mormon so will go with it.
Sources show that Samuel More/Moore born 1594 in England and Catharine more/Moore born 1587, married her 16 years old third cousin in 1610. Library sources states “that Catharine was related to King Malcomm III and David I of Scotland and probably Edward I of England” For some strange reason Samuel sent his 4 children , Elinor/Ellen assigned to Edward Winslow Jasper,assigned to John Carver ,Richard and Mary assigned toWilliam Brewster on the Mayflower to America.(source—Richard Moore Family) Some sources hint that it was to keep them from being the subject of ridicule. Richard, only one of the four Moore children to survive, was about 6 when he arrived at Plymouth and married in 1636 and settled around Salem , Mass He became a Sea Captain. Another interesting fact is Richard’s marriage to Christian Hunter, the Hunter name being in my direct ancestry line. This information is just to show when the first Moore family came to America . There is almost as many Moores in America as Smiths. So until we get more information on Levi it will be impossible to sort them out.
Our Levi moved into Overton Co. TN. Levi would have been surrounded by families who later settled along the White River in Taney, and Stone Co. MO. (Heatherly, Bilyeu, Harp, Clinkenbeard). Levi, from the Winchester Ky. area, was in MO. in the 1830s.
Levi’s daughter Barbara who married William Yoachum/Yocum is documented as saying, “ she recalls how as a very small child she and her family, along with a 100 slaves cross the Mississippi River on a huge barge.” Not sure of the number of slaves because in all Taney Co. MO. in 1846 there were only 63 slaves listed. A Richard Moore is listed as having two slaves in 1860. Perhaps the number of slaves Barbara recalled did not belong to the Moores , but being transported. Barbara and William’s daughter later married Jesse Mitchell Garrison.
Taney co. MO. 1840 Census list Levi Moore/Moor age 50/60 and wife 40/50 and 7 children. Taney Co. MO. took in most of south central Missouri at that time. He is listed in James Twp.
On the GenForum, Anita Johnson lists the surname Moore that are listed on the Cherokee Rolls. Information from books “Cherokee Roots Vol. 1&2. Eastern and Western Cherokee Rolls. No Levi Moore or other recognizable Moore name is among them. That doesn’t mean there are not Cherokee roots, they have just not been found.
Descendants of Levi Moore
1 Levi Moore b: 1790 in
Ky. d: 1842 in Stone Co. Mo. or carroll co. Ark.
.. +Mary Ann Ford b: 1805 in
Ky. d: Abt. 1860 in Stone Co. Mo.
m: Abt. 1816 in Kentucky
….. 2 Euna Jennetta Moore b: Abt. 1816
……… +William E. Razor m: Abt. 1849…
- Monroe Garrett Moore b: 06 Dec 1825
in Overton Co. TN. d: 1902 in Webber Falls OK. ……… +Mary Ann Davis b: Abt. 1834 in Sangamon Co. ILL. d: 12 Oct 1880 in Stone Co. Mo. m: Abt. 1853 in Baxter, Co. Mo.
….. *2nd Wife of Monroe Garrett Moore:
……… +Martha Allen b: 21 Aug 1831 in
Arkansas m: 21 Aug 1881 in Stone Co. Mo.
….. *3rd Wife of Monroe Garrett Moore
……… +Mary Rebecca Standlee b.: May 1872 in Arkansas m: 16 May 1888 in Galena
, Stone Co.Mo.
….. 2 Barbara Ann Moore b: 1830 in Tennessee d: 1880 in Mo.
……… +William Yoachum b: 1824 d: Abt. 1881 in Taney Co. Mo. m: Abt. 1848 in Stone Co. Mo
….. 2 Martha Elizabeth Moore b: 1831 in Overton Co. Tn d: Aft. 1920 in Baxter, Stone Co. Mo.
… +Isaac Bilyeu b: 1824 in Tennessee d: 1859 in Stone Co.Mo. m: Oct 1847 in Stone Co. Mo
….. *2nd Husband of Martha Elizabeth Moore: +John Clinkenbeard b: 24 Dec 1840 in Miller Co.Missouri d: 1919 in Bluff, Taney Co. Mo. m: Abt. 1859 in Mo.
….. 2 Mary Ann Moore b: 1834
……… +George Greggs
….. 2 William Moore b: 1834 in Madison
Co. Ky. d: 10 Nov 1866 in Stone Co. Mo. ……… +Mary Ann Clinkenbeard b: 1836 in Stone Co. Mo. d: 01 Jan 1876 in Stone Co. Mo. m: Abt. 1858 in Stone Co. Mo.
….. 2 Thomas Calvin Moore b: 1838 in Stone Co. Mo.
……… +Mahala Biggs m: 04 Feb 1860 in Stone Co. Mo.
….. 2 M.A. Moore b: 1839
BILYEU CONNECTION
Descendants of Isaac Bilyeu
1 Isaac Bilyeu b: Abt. 1779 in Maryland d: Aft. 1865 in Carroll Co. Ark.
.. +Mary Workman b: 1773 in Maryland
….. 2 Male Bilyeu b: 1802
….. 2 Jacob Bilyeu b: 1803 d: Abt. 1852
……… +Catherine Elizabeth Williams
….. 2 John Witten Bilyeu b: 04 Apr 1809 in Overton Co. Tn. d: 03 Feb 1903 in Spokane, Mo.
……… +Sarah Frances Harp b: 1810 in Overton co.Tennessee d: Aug 1890 in Christian Co. Mo. m: 27 Jul 1832 in Crawford, Co. Mo.
….. 2 Elizabeth Louisa Bilyeu b: Abt. 1812 in Overton Co. Tn. d: in Stone Co. Mo.
……… +Henry C. Clinkenbeard b: 1808 in Madison Co. Ky. d: Bef. 1860 in Stone Co. Mo.
….. 2 Lydia Bilyeu b: Abt. 1812
……… +Solomon Bilyeu
….. 2 Diannah Bilyeu b: 16 May 1817 in Marrion Co. TN. d: in Christian co. Mo.
……… +James Brumley d: 25 Feb 1872 in Christian co. Mo. m: 27 Jul 1832 in Crawford Co. Mo.
….. 2 Margaret Ann Bilyeu b: 1821
……… +Martin F. Melton
….. 2 Stephen Bilyeu b: Abt. 1825
……… +Fannie M. Baker
….. 2 Mary Ann Bilyeu
……… +John T. Davis m: 1832 in Sangamon, ILL.
According to the research done by Mildred Roden and Hazel McCullough Lowery, Issac is the son of John Bilyeu and ??Trynjte .
Workman Family
Descendants of Jacob Workman
1 Jacob Workman b: 1756
.. +Elizabeth Wickoff b: 1756 in Readington, N. J. d: 1823 in Paris, Bourbon Co. Ky. m: 1770 in Readington Hunterdon, N. J.
….. 2 Jacob Workman b: 1770
….. 2 Benjamin Workman b: 1771
….. 2 Mary Workman b: 1773 in Maryland
……… +Isaac Bilyeu b: Abt. 1779 in Maryland d: Aft. 1865 in Carroll Co. Ark.
….. 2 Abraham Workman b: 1779
….. 2 Isaac Workman b: 1781
….. 2 Jacob Workman b: 1783
….. 2 Benjamin Workman b: 1785
….. 2 John Workman b: 1789
….. 2 Samuel Workman b: 1791
CLINKENBEARD FAMILY
Source—-Douglas Co. History, Stone Co. History, Hazel McCullough Lowery
Draper Papers of Clark Co.Ky.
Clinkenbeard or perhaps Klinkenborg probably refers to the original family. The Douglas co. MO. Clinkingbeards spell their name with ing and trace their line back to Klinkenborg of VA. I believe this is our line also. We have not been able to fill in the gap for a connection nor to a direct line.
Henry C. Clinkenbeard born in KY, in 1808 is our known direct line. This puts him into direct location of the original Clinkenbeard brothers, William, Isaac, and John who came to Strode Station about 1781 with their father William and step mother and perhaps uncles Isaac, John, and Thomas Linn. William and Nathan Linn were known cousins of the three original Ky. Clinkenbeards. So we believe their mother’s maiden name was Linn.
John Strode founded Strode Station 8 miles North of Boonesboro—Winchester, Ky. —with a grant of 1000 acres of land in 1782. John was from Berkley Co. Va. The Clinkenbeards were also from Berkley Co. VA. Some early sources say Spotslyvania Co. which was a county bounded on the north by Repedan andRappahamark Rivers . It could have all been one county at that time.
Isaac Clinkenbeard helped “chink” the cabins inside of Strode Station and William made chairs. This station was approximately 100X300 feet with small cabins around the enclosed stockade which had block houses guarding the corners. Isaac Clinkenbeard had a corn-right (apparently the right to raise certain acres of corn.). John Strode had given the Clinkenbeards free rent to bring other folks to Ky.
Some of the names listed living at the Strode Station and Booneboro and traveling with the Boones are the three Clinkenbeard brothers , John, Isaac, William and Patrick Mooney, George Reynolds, Jesse Yocum. All names of settlers of Stone Co. MO. James Mooney had traveled with Boone in 1769 from Yadkin Co. N. C. Boone’s Translvania Company brought $50,000 worth of merchandise and 5 families to Booneboro in 1773.
On the Bourbon Co. Tax list of 1800 there was listed Isaac, Job, William and John Clinkenbeard. William Clinkenbeard, a soldier under George Rogers Clark had married Mary Mooney , daughter of Patrick Mooney. Isaac had married Sarah Pullen who is documented in the will of Jedediah Pullen, Sarah’s father. Isaac and William gave interviews that are recorded with Shane in the Draper Papers.
Before I leave the Strode Station and Booneboro I want to relate a personal visit we had at the “Booneboro tourist Station”. My sister Alta and her husband Henry accompanied my husband Al Heatherly and me on a trip to Winchester where we temporarily lost the road we were traveling on. We pulled in to a car lot with a huge hat which had the owners name—-Hatfield Auto—–before we could complete getting direction to our road, Alta piped up from the backseat, “ Are you related to the Hatfields of the Hatfields and McCoys” —-If you are familiar with Winchester, Ky. you will know this is indeed near the homeland of the said feuding families. None of us waited for his answer, and we proceeded to threaten Alta if she got into trouble she was on her own.
But that didn’t deter her for we were soon at Booneboro and they were just closing the door of the Stockade when we arrived. She jumped out and headed for the door and persuaded the doorkeeper to “just let us look in”. Well we didn’t get inside, but we did see the lay out of the cabins around the wall.
Our proven Clinkenbeard is Henry C. Clinkenbeard who was born in 1808 in Ky. He married Elizabeth Louisa Bilyeu . Their first child was born in Overton, Co. Tn. Others were born in Ill. And by 1835 they were in Missouri and Arkansas . They seemed to move back and forth between MO. and Ark.
The Henry Klinkenbeard who had a mill on a creek just outside of Green Forest, Arkansas is one and the same Henry Clinkenbeard.
There is information on the Internet about Henry Clinkenbeard being a Chickamauga Indian and had only taken the name Clinkenbeard. I am in doubt and see no real proof. Although, I do not deny that the Clinkenbeards that I recall seeing as a child sure looked Indian. I would see one man, whom my parents visited with at the McCullough cemetery on Memorial Day . He was a tall, straight, dark, severe Indian looking man who wore a tall black hat. Needless to say he made an impression on me as a child. The claim of Indian blood is talked of in all lines of the Garrison, Moore, and Clinkenbeard families. But as of now I have seen no positive documented proof other than the physical features. From the Draper Papers it documents the Ky. Clinkenbeards fighting against the Indians. It is my personal belief that the Clinkenbeards where Klinkenborgs and some of the ladies whom they married is where the Indian features come in
The third generation of Clinkenbeards in Ky. (John D. Shane, Draper Papers ) were credited with a partnership with James W. Rice as bringing the first Cotswold Sheep into Ky. These sheep cost $75 dollars per head. That generation of Clinkenbeards were also connected with the Christian Church.
The Clinkingbeards of Douglas Co. MO. are prosperous folks. One family has operated the funeral home in Ava, MO. for many years. Some of the Clinkenbeards of Stone Co. seemed to have trouble with the law.
This history could have been much richer if only I had talked with my grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Moore Garrison who was the daughter of Mary Ann Clinkenbeard andWilliam Moore. She could have told me about these folks. I have heard the Henry C. Clinkenbeard home place was known as the Delsa Crain place in my day, if so I would have known it well and probably they would have build the good log house that we visited many time. It was the farm to the east, which joined my childhood home
William Moore married Mary Ann Clinkenbeard about 1856/7. William died as a young man of 32 and Mary Ann died in 1876 leaving her daughter, my grandma Mary Elizabeth, and sons Garrett and Thomas. How very sad to think of this young mother as she dealt with death and leaving her young family. Their home was on a high bluff overlooking Indian Creek and White River
. Some say that the land later sold at the court house door because the young children didn’t know to pay their taxes. Woe to the person who took advantage of these children. It is also said that William and Mary were buried in a cemetery in the Owens Bend which was later covered by Table Rock Lake .
See the biography of Mary Eliizabeth Moore for more information of this family. The name Clinkenbeard was part of my family heritage, even though the history is incomplete.
Descendants of Henry C. Clinkenbeard
1 Henry C. Clinkenbeard b: 1808 in
Madison Co. Ky. d: Bef. 1860 in Stone Co. Mo.
.. +Elizabeth Louisa Bilyeu b: Abt. 1812 in Overton Co. Tn. d: in Stone Co. Mo.
….. 2 Isaac Clinkenbeard b: 1828 in
Tn.
……… +Mary Cline
….. 2 Nancy Clinkenbeard b: 1830 in Sangamon Co. ILL.
….. 2 Dianna Clinkenbeard b: 1832 in
Illinois
……… +Carter Harp b: 1832 in TN. m: Abt. 1851
….. 2 Elizabeth Ann Clinkenbeard b: 1833 in ILL.
….. +John Mahan m: 22 Oct 1854 in Carroll Co. Ark.
….. 2 Mary Ann Clinkenbeard b: 1836 in Stone Co. Mo. d: 01 Jan 1876 in Stone Co.Mo.
……… +William Moore b: 1834 in Madison Co. Ky. d: 10 Nov 1866 in Stone Co. Mo. m: Abt. 1858 in Stone Co. Mo.
….. 2 Lydia Ann Clinkenbeard b: 1837 in
Arkansas
……… +William Henry Leonard b: Abt. 1833 in Belfort, Alabama d: 1861 in Fayetteville, Ark m: 22 Jul 1856 in Stone Co. Mo.
….. 2 John Clinkenbeard b: 24 Dec 1840
in Miller Co.Missouri d: 1919 in Bluff, Taney Co.
Mo. ……… +Martha Elizabeth Moore b: 1831 in Overton Co. Tn d: Aft. 1920 in Baxter, Stone Co. Mo. m: Abt. 1859 in Mo.
….. 2 William Henry Clinkenbeard b: 17 Feb 1845 in Baxter, Stone Co. Mo. (at time Taney Co.) d: 29 Jun 1902
……… +Matilda Sanders b: 17 Feb 1844 d: 24 Dec 1885 in Bur; at Hendrickson School Cem. Stone Co. Mo. m: 06 Sep 1863 in Stone Co. Mo.
….. 2 Martin Clinkenbeard b: 17 Sep 1848 in Carroll Co. Ark. d: 16 Nov 1904 ……m…. +Lenory Teague b: 11 Dec 1848
….. *2nd Wife of Martin Clinkenbeard:
……… +Minnie Bell Macomb
….. *3rd Wife of Martin Clinkenbeard:
……… +Sarah White
….. 2 Hiram Clinkenbeard b:
08 Oct 1844 in Mo. d: 10 Jun 1911 in Stone Co. Mo. ……… +America Raisor m: 11 Jul 1867 in Stone Co. Mo.
….. *2nd Wife of Hiram Clinkenbeard:
……… +Mariah Johnson Dye b: 1837 m: 05 Jul 1871 in Stone Co. Mo.
….. 2 Samuel Greenberry Clinkenbeard b:
08 Oct 1849
……… +Sarah White m: 09 Aug 1879
in Stone Co. Mo.
….. 2 Sarah Clinkenbeard b: 1853 in AR.
……… +John Cline