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SUSANNA ALLISON, OF LONDONDERRY, N. H. 67
63. Susanna Allison ^
[28] (Capt. Samuel,^ Samuel i).
She was born Oct. 13, 1759, and married, as his second wife,
Lieut. John Holmes, eldest son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth
(Moore)^ Holmes, of Londonderrjs N. H. He succeeded to
the home farm in Derry Lower Village. He was born in
i747, and died Nov. 2, 1794. She died April 28, 1809. His
first wife was hi^ own cousin, Martha, daughter of Col. Robert
Moore. (See p. 77.) She died Sept. 5, 1778, leaving a son
who died young, and a daughter, Molly Holmes, who married
* t' ' "
" " ,'tiving somewhere in Hillsborough Cfer, N. H.
CHILDKEN BORN IN LONDONDERRY, N. H,
64. Martha Holmes,* b. in 1781; d. Dec. 2.5, 1834, aged 53 years; m.,
about 1798, Col. William Moore » (Col. Daniel Moore, = of Bedford,
N. H.), who was first cousin of her father on the Moore
side. He ci. March 2.5, 1839, and was b. in Bedford, Sept. 12,
1773. He and his first wife were married at Bedford Centi-e,
N. H. He was a brick manufactui-er in Bedford; was a farmer
and a colonel in the militia; selectman in 1833 and 1835, representative
in 1832 and 1833. He m., second, Susan, ^fta^bt©*'of
Thomas Wallace, of Goffstown, in May, 1835. She d. at
Henniker, Feb. 14, 1880, and is buried beside her first husband
at Goffstown, N. H. Their children were,—
1. Daniel Moore,"^ b. Bedford, N. H., Feb. 23, 1801; m., April 1, 1828,
of Litchfield. She was his cousin.
Mary Shirley McQuesten,
He d. Aug. 13, 1850. She d. Feb. 29, 1840, and he m., second,
April 1, 1841, Sarah Stevens, of New Boston, N. H., who d.
Jan. 13, 1855, aged 39 years. They are buried at Bedford Centre,
N. H. He was selectman of Bedford, 1832, 1837, 1838, and
1839. clerk 1835, and clerk of Merrimack, N. H., in 1850, at
time of his death. Children b. Bedford. N. H., except Ervin J.
Moore :
I. "William Clinton Moore,'' b. Jan. 3, 1829; m., March 25, 1854, Martha
Jane, daughter of William Moore. She was his cousin. He
d. Aug. 16, 1854, aged 25 years, 7 months, 13 days.
II. James Clifton Moore,^ b. April 8, 1830; m., Nov. 16, 1852, Mary A.
Hodgman, of Bedford, N. II. He removed to Scranton, Penn.,
in 1860, and manufactured brick. He enlisted, Feb. 13, 1864,
in the 5th N. Y. Heavy Artillery ;
was taken prisoner, Oct. 19,
1864, at the battle of Cedar Rapids, Va., and d. in Libby Prison,
Richmond, Va,, Dec. 25, 1864. His wife returned to Bedford,
N. H. ; m., second, William H. Gage, who d. July, 1879. Children:
Mary Emeline Moore,' b. Bedford, N. H., Oct. 9. 18-53:
m., Oct. 24, 1872, George A. Powers, of Milford, N. H.; res.
Milford, N. H. Child: Frederick E. Powers.* George Leroy
Moore,' b. Jan. 16, 1858; d. at Pittston, Penn., Nov. 7, 1863.
Sadie Jane Moore,' b. Scranton, Penn., June 30, 1861.
III. Martha Jane Moore," b. June, 1832; d. Jan. 5, 1834.
IV. Daniel Leroy Moore," b. Nov. 27, 18:W; m., Sarah F. Chadwick, of
Nashua, N. H. They lived in Nashua, and Wheeling, W. Va.
Res. Cleveland, Ohio. She d. at Cleveland, March 2, 1872.
^ She was the daughter of John i and Janet Moore, who came in 1723-
'24 from county Antrim, Ireland, to Londonderry, N. H.