CALLAO, PERU
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Rev. Jesse Hale Moore
b. April 22, 1817
Union Grove Settlement near Lebanon, St. Clair County, Illinois
d. July 11, 1883
Callao, PERU
buried: July 1883 in Callao, PERU
Disinterred and relocated to Greenwood in 1885
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FATHER
James Moore
(1789-1846)
MOTHER
Joice/Joicey Steele
(1797-1865)
MARRIED
Rachel Handley Hynes
(1822-1894)
September 13, 1842
St. Clair County, Illinois
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CHILDREN
with Rachel
Sarah Jane (nee-Moore) Steele
(1844-1928)
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NOTE:
Jesse Hale Moore,
fought in the
CIVIL WAR
COLONEL 115 ILL. INF.
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* Moore graduated from McKendree College, Lebanon, Illinois, in 1842. He taught school in Nashville, Illinois from 1842 to 1844 and at Georgetown, Illinois from 1844 to 1848.
* He studied for the ministry and was ordained a Methodist minister in 1849.
* Moore served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was appointed colonel of the
115th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment on September 13, 1862. Moore led the regiment into its
first major action at the Battle of Chickamauga. He participated in the Atlanta Campaign and the
battles of Franklin and Nashville the following year. He was honorably mustered out June 11, 1865
with a brevet promotion to brigadier general.
* Moore served as Presiding elder of the Decatur district of the Illinois conference in 1868. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses (March 4, 1869 - March 3, 1873). He served as chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions (Forty-second Congress) and was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress.
* He served as a United States pension agent in Springfield, Illinois from 1873 to 1877.
* He served as pastor of Mechanicsburg (Illinois) Methodist Church.
* He was appointed by President Arthur as United States consul at Callao, Peru, October 27, 1881, and served until his death there on July 11, 1883.
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