The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-07-10
Four Generations Of A Missouri
Family.

Family.
From the Kansas City World.
The families of this state are ceas.
ing to be ''new," and many of the "F.
F." of Missouri can count back To the
fourth and fifth generation. Searchers
after ~genealogy find they have great
great gr~and-fathers and grand-mothers
galore. General Milton Moore, cleo
ton commissioner of Kansas City and
commander first brigade, NJ. n. e., is
well informed on the subject of his
ancestors, and has preserved the pic
ture of his maternal grand mother.
She evidently came of a noble, sturdy
race, and one from which he aud his
children have inherited some strong
characteristics. His sweet young
daughter marks the fourth generation.
Mary Watkins Walker, maternal
grand mother, of General Moore, was
born near Richmond, Ky, about 1887.
After IA long and useful life, this re-
markable woman died in 1865 at Lex
ington, Mo. Her father, Asa Walker,
married g lineal descendant of Coun
Bartholomew Dupuy, "A French HuSue-
not, who fled from France upon the
revocation of the edict of Nantes and
landed on the James river in 100. Asa
Walker removed to Kentucky while the
latter was still a territory, and his
daughter, the subject of the sketch,
there married John Stapp, coming at
once to Howard county, in this state,
TO live. They moved to Lillard county,
which Is now Lafayette, in about the
year 1920. Mr.. Stapp was a member
of the first county court OF Lillard and
was made colonel of n regiment in
1912, but never had any actual service.
Travelling in those pioneer days was
not the easy, delightful transportation
of the present. Before science had
done so mucn for the weary traveller,
getting from n county to the other
involved a tedious and fatiguing jour
ney, full of priVations and dangers.
But this oma belonged 10 a sturdy
race, whose pride and courage enabled
them TO bear with fortitude the hard
ships of a new country. Some time in
the year l837-John Stapp died, leaving
daughters and two sons. These she
educated and raised to maturity.
Hers was a strong character. Her
black eyes and firm mouth indicate
posltiveness and great executive ability,
which she showed by conducting a
large plantation from the time of her
husbands death to her old age, at
which time this picture was taken. In
her home the loom and wheel were
never still. Hers IA a typical house
hold of the period, open TO the way
faring man, tho a stranger, especially
If a churchman.
The latch string hung outside day
and night. With the other duties as
sumed after the loss of her husband,
as was common in that day of religious
sentiment, Mrs. Stapp conducted daily
family devotIons, at which the entire
family, blacks included, were required
to be present.
Her seven daughters were named
after goddesses of ancient mythology.
The eldest, Anthusa, married Francis
NJ. Cockrell, now the senior United
States senator from this state. She
lived only a short time.
Martha Minerva selected for a hus-
band William w. Suddath, an educated
man of the Cumberland Presbyterian
church, who was engaged for years in
writing a commentary on the Bible.
Amanda, the most beautiful of all the
married MIR. Mr.. j. u. Ewing.
Melissa Elizabeth, third daughter,
chose the life of a preachers wife
when she married the Rev. Albert A.
Moore of the Cumberland Presbyterian
He has survived his wife the
last seventeen years, and now resides
in Lafayette county, having already
spent many happy, useful years. Gen
eral Milton Moore, his eldest son, and
gentle Mary Burnes, of St. Joseph,
were married in 1880. Their daughter,
just budding into womanhood, has
inherited the strong nature of her
great grandmother, along with her
black eyes and unusual height.