Wade & Webb Family History

Elizabeth Moore1836–1874

Alabama · Coosa

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Documents (1)
  4. Places
  5. Timeline
  6. Open questions
  7. Notes

Birth

  1. about 1836 Alabama

Marriages

  1. 8 Jun 1855 Westley D Walden, at Coosa, Alabama 3

Death and burial

  1. about 1874 Death: Alabama

Family

Parents
Not recorded
Spouse, 8 Jun 1855
Westley D Walden 1819–1863
Children
Alabama Walden 1856–?
George Westley Walden 1860–1929
Laura Walden 1858–1942

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Elizabeth Moore
  2. Wife of Westley D Walden
  3. William Walker Walden, son
  4. Lila Walden, daughter
  5. Hilda Webb, daughter
  6. William Albert Webb Wade, son

Wife of 2nd great-grandfather of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Elizabeth Moore, called Eliza in the records of her lifetime, was born in Alabama about 1836, according to the FamilySearch tree, which gives no source for the year and names no parents.1 George E. Brewer's "History of Coosa County, Alabama" (1942), a county history by a man who knew her husband, and a secondary source, calls her "Miss Eliza Moore, of Rockford," the Coosa County town to which her husband later moved his business.2

On 8 June 1855 she married West D. Walden, a widower with a young son, in Coosa County, Alabama; the county marriage indexes record the bride as Eliza Moore.3 Her husband's first wife, Eliza Robbins, had died in 1853, leaving their son William Walker Walden, born in 1850.4 According to Brewer, Walden was a merchant at Nixburg for a number of years and then moved his business to Rockford, where he continued until his death, and he was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1859.5 The tree names three children of the second marriage: Alabama (born 1856), Laura (1858–1942) and George Westley (1860–1929), and Brewer too says that she and Walden had three children.6 In 1860 the federal census listed Eliza Walden in the household of W. D. Walden in the 2nd Subdivision of Coosa County.7

Her husband, a Confederate captain according to the tree, died at Marietta, Georgia, on 10 October 1863.8 Brewer gives a different account of his death: Walden led a company to the war in June 1862, joining Hilliard's Legion, and was killed at the Battle of Chickamauga "just as he mounted the enemy's works, in a gallant charge of the regiment at Snodgrass Hill."9 Inference The two accounts could both be true only if he was mortally wounded at Chickamauga, fought on 19 and 20 September 1863, and died later at Marietta; neither source says so.9

Brewer says that she "went to Texas soon after the war."10 The tree gives her own death as about 1874, in Alabama, without a source, and no record of her after 1860 is attached to her profile.11 Inference If Brewer is right that she went to Texas, the tree's Alabama for her death is probably wrong, but no record of the time supports either account.11

Documents

  1. 1942 History of Coosa County: W. D. Walden, merchant, legislator and captain George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 4, nos. 1–2 (Montgomery, Alabama, Spring and Summer 1942) · book

Places

  1. 1855–1860Coosa

Timeline

  1. about 1836BirthAlabama
  2. 8 Jun 1855Marriage, Westley D WaldenCoosa, Alabama
  3. 1860Residence2nd Subdivision, Coosa, Alabama
  4. about 1874DeathAlabama

Open questions

None recorded yet.

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZ6S-ZJW: birth about 1836, Alabama, no source; no parents recorded; other names Eliza Moore, Elizabeth Moore back to the text
  2. History of Coosa County: W. D. Walden, merchant, legislator and captain, George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 4, nos. 1–2 (Montgomery, Alabama, Spring and Summer 1942): Notes: County history by a contemporary who knew Walden; p. 233: His second wife was Miss Eliza Moore, of Rockford … and then transferred his business to Rockford where he continued until his death back to the text
  3. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, West D. Walden and Eliza Moore, 08 Jun 1855. Record: West D. Walden and Eliza Moore, Alabama County Marriages, 08 Jun 1855 "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", FamilySearch, Eliza Moore in entry for West D. Walden, 8 Jun 1855. Record: Eliza Moore in entry for West D. Walden, 8 Jun 1855 "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", , FamilySearch, Eliza Moore in entry for West D. Walden, 1855. Record: Eliza Moore in entry for West D. Walden, 1855 "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", database, FamilySearch, Eliza Moore in entry for West D. Walden, 1855. Record: Eliza Moore in entry for West D. Walden, 1855 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZ6S-ZJW: marriage 8 Jun 1855, Coosa, Alabama back to the text
  4. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LH37-HSX (their page): death 2 Aug 1853, Coosa, Alabama FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY38-58X (their page): birth 16 Mar 1850, Newbury, Coosa, Alabama, parents Westley D Walden and Eliza Robbins back to the text
  5. History of Coosa County: W. D. Walden, merchant, legislator and captain, George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 4, nos. 1–2 (Montgomery, Alabama, Spring and Summer 1942): p. 233: W. D. Walden, who was a member of the House in 1859, was a merchant at Nixburg for a number of years, and then transferred his business to Rockford where he continued until his death; p. 175: Wesley D. Walden … nominated for the House back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZ6S-ZJW: children Alabama (1856), Laura (1858–1942), George Westley (1860–1929) History of Coosa County: W. D. Walden, merchant, legislator and captain, George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 4, nos. 1–2 (Montgomery, Alabama, Spring and Summer 1942): p. 233: Miss Eliza Moore, of Rockford, by whom he had three children back to the text
  7. "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Eliza Walden in entry for W D Walden, 1860. Record: Eliza Walden in entry for W D Walden, 1860 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZ6S-ZJW: residence 1860, 2nd Subdivision, Coosa, Alabama back to the text
  8. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KCR9-YLT (their page): death 10 Oct 1863, Marietta, Cobb, Georgia; military service, Captain Company B 60th Alabama Infantry CSA back to the text
  9. History of Coosa County: W. D. Walden, merchant, legislator and captain, George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 4, nos. 1–2 (Montgomery, Alabama, Spring and Summer 1942): p. 233: He led a company to the war in June 1862, joining Hilliard's Legion. His company was afterward in the 59th Ala. Regt. He was killed at the Battle of Chickamauga, just as he mounted the enemy's works, in a gallant charge of the regiment at Snodgrass Hill; Facts: Battle of Chickamauga (19–20 Sept 1863) FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KCR9-YLT (their page): death 10 Oct 1863, Marietta, Cobb, Georgia back to the text
  10. History of Coosa County: W. D. Walden, merchant, legislator and captain, George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 4, nos. 1–2 (Montgomery, Alabama, Spring and Summer 1942): p. 233: and who went to Texas soon after the war back to the text
  11. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZ6S-ZJW: death about 1874, Alabama, no source attached History of Coosa County: W. D. Walden, merchant, legislator and captain, George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 4, nos. 1–2 (Montgomery, Alabama, Spring and Summer 1942): p. 233: who went to Texas soon after the war back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Elizabeth Moore (6)
  1. 1855Eliza Moore in entry for West D. Walden, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  2. 1855Eliza Moore in entry for West D. Walden, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  3. 08 Jun 1855Eliza Moore, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  4. 8 Jun 1855Eliza Moore, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  5. 1860Eliza Walden, "United States, Census, 1860"
  6. 15 February 1882Elizabeth Walden, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-2011 "