Joel Moore - Source Material

•       Joel Moore was born in Shenandoah Co, VA, on 15 Mar 1768. Joel
     appears to have lived in the Big Pigeon River area in Cocke Co, TN,
     from about 1792 to 1800.  Entries in the records of the Big Pigeon
     Baptist Church show a close relationship to the Hestand family and
     we believe that Joel married Regina Hestand, daughter of Abraham
     and sister of Daniel, around 1795.  The Hestands, Mulkeys and
     others moved on to Monroe(Barren) County, KY, around 1798 and Joel
     and Regina followed in 1800.  Joel settled on 370 acres on Mill
     Creek a few miles southwest of Tompkinsville and it appears that
     parts of this land remained in the family well into the 20th
     century.  There are many references to Joel in the tax records and
     a few in the Mill Creek Baptist Church minutes.  We have found
     little on Joel's wife, but considerable circumstantial evidence
     indicates that she was certainly Regina Hestand. No record
     of Joel's death has been found.  He is known to have died before
     1840 and there is no reason to believe that he did not live on his
     homestead until the end.  He had turned the land over to sons
     Jeremiah and John W , but apparently continued to live there. He
     is probably buried in an old section of Harlan's Crossroads 
     Cemetery that contains a number of illegible stones. This section
     was probably on Joel's land and was the Moore family burial plot
     until sometime late in the 19th century.
     

  
  

•    Reference to Joel's birthplace and parent's name.
   
        Joel Moore's brother John came to Monroe Co around 1803-04 and
     probably lived with Joel until he married Daniel Hestand's
     daughter, Margaret, in 1814. John lived in southern Monroe Co until
     his death in 1854. John's 2nd child was Jefferson Moore (b1819). A
     grandaughter of Jefferson discovered a small book amongst her
     father's possessions that had some handwritten material concerning
     the ancestry of Jefferson Moore.  This is the only known source for
     Joel Moore's birthplace and the names of his parents. Some of this
     material was copied from the book and can be read here.
     

  
  

•    List of Joel's children.
        In 1945 Elosia Barclay of McDonough County, IL, prepared a
     genealogy of her Moore family.  She was descended from Joel Moore's
     son, William, who migrated to McDonough Co from Monroe Co, KY, in
     1835.  Ms Barclay did not leave any record of the sources of her
     information, but it was probably an old handwritten document passed
     down from William. Her data has proved correct when independently
     verified. The first page dealt with the family of her gg-grand-
     father Joel Moore.  This is the only known source of the names and
     birth dates of the children of Joel.   All but the first page of Ms
     Barclays work deals with the McDonough Co descendants of William
     Moore.  The first page is here.
     

  
  

•    Big Pigeon Baptist Church Minutes.
        The earliest documentation that I have found on Joel Moore is
     the Big Pigeon Baptist Church (located in Cocke Co, TN) minutes
     1787-1874.  He first appears in 1792. There has been nothing found
     on him prior to that date.  I believe that it was during this
     period that Joel married Abraham Hestand's daughter Regina. (Their
     first child was born in 1796). The Hestands (father Abraham, wife
     Magdalene Boehm and their children) had left Shenandoah Co, Va, in
     1784 and obtained land in Washington Co,Tn, just south of Jonesboro
     on Cherokee Creek.  They stayed there until 1792, when they appear
     in Cocke Co.  Excerpts from the church minutes that involve Joel
     Moore are here.
     

  
  

•    Mill Creek Church Minutes.
        John Mulkey, Abraham Hestand, David Jobe and others left the Big
     Pigeon River area in Cocke Co, TN, in 1797-98 and came to
     Monroe(Barren) Co, KY, where they used the constitution of the Big
     Pigeon Baptist Church as the founding document of the Mill Creek
     Church.  Joel and Regina Moore followed to the Mill Creek area of
     Monroe(Barren) Co in the summer of 1800. Excerpts concerning
     Moores, Hestands and others have been taken from the church minutes
     for the years 1798-1820.
     

  
  

•    Barren Co Order Books 1799-1818.
        Transcriptions of Barren Co order books are available for the
     years 1799-1818. These are the years when Monroe Co was still a
     part of Barren Co. All references to Moores have been abstracted.
     

  
  

•    Tax Lists 1799-1845.
        The Moore entries in the tax lists have been abstracted and
     analyzed. The tax lists are no less useful than the census and
     can fill in the gaps between the census years. Someone should
     continue this past the 1799-1845 period.
     

  
  

•    Powers of Attorney from the Hestands.
        Joel Moore represented the interests of his Hestand inlaws when
     he visited his parents in Virginia in the early 19th century. Read
     the powers of attorney.