Moses Peirce/ Pierce
Birth 20 Jul 1780
Guilford County, North Carolina, USA
Death 20 May 1857 (aged 76)
Sugar Grove, Smyth County, Virginia, USA
Burial
Morgan Cemetery
Smyth County, Virginia, USA
There seems to be some confusion about Moses' last wife, Elizabeth Pierce. Some say that it was Elizabeth Pool(e) and some say Elizabeth Kirk.
Elizabeth Poole married John Jacob Kirk in 1818; he was a widower who'd had 5 children with Sarrah Wright (married 1800):
Rachel, b. 28 Aug. 1803, d. 18 Nov. 1882; never married and lived with Jones M. Kirk and Susannah Griffitts Kirk and is buried at Fox Cemetary in Grayson Co, VA and her tombstone reads "Aunt Rachel Kirk"
Elizabeth,
Lewis,
Richard, b. 1808,
Patsy
Jacob and Elizabeth Poole Kirk had 4 children:
Jones Minitree, b. 17 Apr. 1818; d. 16 Apr. 1897
Mary "Polly" b. 1820;
Ptolemy, b. 1821;
George Washington, b. 15 July 1823.
After the death of Jacob (Elizabeth was 27 with four small children and a dower of 90 acres) and the death of Moses' first wife, Ellender (with whom Moses had 8 children, spelling their last name "Pierce"), Elizabeth Poole Kirk and Moses married in 1826 and had at least 8* more children, spelling their last name "Peirce":
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55872413/moses-pierce
