Person:John Moyer (34)

Information on John George Moyer

From Amelia Moyer Manuscript:

John George Moyer (My Father). I do not know the date of his birth. He was born near St. John's [Lutheran] Church in Cabarrus County - lived on the Big [Dutch] Buffalo Creek until about 1846 - died in his seventies in the last year of the war and was buried in Rowan County at the Lower Stone Presbyterian [Lutheran] Church. He married three times. His first wife was Elizabeth Sossoman, his second wife Martha (Patsy) Cooper, widow of a Minister Cooper from Clemensville, Davey Co., North Carolina, his third Amelia Peacock, a widow he married in Rowan Co., N. C.

He married his first wife, Elizabeth about 1809. She bore eleven children, viz, Elizabeth, Eveline, John Lewis, Daniel Monroe, John Mathias, Mary Ann, Amelia Devina, Henry Nathaniel, Charles Augustus, Caleb Alexander and Elizabeth Catharine.

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