The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-01-27
REV. ARCHIBALD MOORE
DIES OF HEART ATTACK
Succumbs AS He Prepares To
Retire For the Night; Was A
Prominent Figure In Church

Rev. Archibald Moore, DID,, retired
minister of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and former superintendent of
the Morgantown and Wheeling Dis
trict of the West Virginia Confer
ence of that denomination, died sud-
denly at his home on Oak street in
Oakland Monday evening as he was
preparing to retire for the night. A
heart attack came as he sat in his
bedroom. He and Mrs. Moore had
planned to leave Oakland next Mon
day for points in Florida to remain
until early spring.
DR.. Moore, who was 76 years of age,
had completed 81 years of service in
the ministry and had served churches
at Oakland and many points through
out the State of West Virginia. He
came to Oakland as permanent res
ident when he retired from active
work in the church eight years ago, in
October, 1929.
DR.. Moore was born on May II,
1861, in Noble county, Ohio, and with
his parents moved to Hamlin, Lincoln
county, West Va, while still lad. He
was educated in the public schools of
that section and later at Ohio Wes-
leyan University at Delaware. He was
married January 81, 1886, to Miss
Lucy Lawrence, of Hamlin, and two
years ago the couple celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary at their
home in Oakland.
Surviving, besides his widow, are
a daughter, Mrs. Morgan limbaugh,
of Baltimore, and two sons, Lawrence
Brooks Moore, of Huntington, w. Va,
and DR.. Dana 7. Moore, of Sterrett,
Logan county, West Va; five grand
children; also three sisters and one
brother, Miss Mamie Moore, Miss
Lowry Moore and Mrs. Mary Young,
all of Huntington, W. Va, and Alonzo
Moore, of Branchland, West Va.
Dr.. Moore was a delegate to the
General Methodist Conference in 1900
and again in 1920, and served on vari-
Gus commissions of the conference
which sought the union Of the Metho
dist Episcopal church with the South
ern Methodist division. He was also a
trustee of West Virginia Wesleyan
College at Buckhannon for twenty
five years, giving up that position
when he retired from active work in
the church eight years ago.
He was superintendent of Wheel
ing District for six years; the Oakland
district, and after it was combined
with the Morgantown district, head of
the combined Morgantown district for
nine years.
He began preaching while young
man at the Flat Top Mountain Cir
cult, near Hamlin, then the West
Hamlin circuit, Milton and Barbours-
vile circuit; Mulden, Clarksburg, Zane
street, Wheeling; Grafton, North
Street, w HSSllLS, haillliiiS NO44' ~
Andrews, Parkersburg; Oakland, twice
as pastor, for periods Of two and
three years; High Lawn, Huntington,
and finally, st. Mary's.
DR.. Moore was candidate for Com
missioner of Agriculture in West Vlr-
ginia in 1912, and was also candi-
date for Congress while a resident OF
Warrington, w. Va. Fraternally, ne
was a member Of the Masonic frater-
nifty and Knights of Pythias.
Funeral services are to be conducted
this Thursday afternoon at two
o'clock from the home on Oak street,
DR.. W. B. King, Parkersburg; Dr.
Frank N. Lynch, Marietta, o.; Rev
Gregory Bleakly, Mountain Lake
Park, and Rev. ]. G. Buckley, Hunt
ington, W. Va, officiating. Interment
will be in Oakland cemetery.