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Lewis C. Moore

Wife: Bernice E. (Warringer) Moore, Born Jun 1860 Died Jan 6, 1920

The Moore monument stands as tall as a man, carved of limestone in the shape of a limbless tree trunk—a symbol of life cut short. First appearing in America in the middle of the nineteenth century, and popularized by the Arts and Crafts design movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tree-shaped memorials can be found in many local cemeteries. Bernice Warringer Moore was 60 years old when she died. Her husband Lewis, however, lived to 80 years of age.

Lewis C. Moore was born in Columbia County, the son of John Gilbert Moore and Catherine Moore of Germantown. Gilbert was a carpenter and he and Catherine could neither read nor write. They may have only had two children who lived to adulthood, Lewis and his older brother John M. Moore.

Bernice was the daughter of Frances and Letitia Warringer of Tivoli, part of a large family, some of whom removed to Connecticut, possibly to find work.

Bernice and Lewis had five children, daughters Grace H. (married Joseph Broca), Letitia (married Robert Broderick), Sophia E. (1893–1981 married Robert Minkler), and Charlotte (married John Buggee), and son Cleophus (1892–1935 married Judith Merveil). After Cleophus had only daughters, the surname Moore on this branch disappeared.

Sophia had three children with Robert whom she named for the men in her life, Lewis C., Joseph P., and Roberta L. Minkler. 

Cleophus was at one time a chauffeur, and at another a tinsmith who resided in midtown Manhattan. He and wife Judith had two daughters, Charlotte and Vivian Moore. Charlotte married Phillip Bragg and Vivian never married.

Grace married French waiter Joseph Pierre Broca and the couple lived on West 20th and later on West 43rd street in Manhattan. He had come to the states in 1899 and died at 57 years of age in 1930. She died in 1957.

Letitia’s husband Robert was a Supreme Court stenographer whose parents were from Ireland. They lived in Brooklyn and had six children, Grace, Edna, Agnes, Robert, Donald, and Gloria Broderick. He died suddenly at 43. Letitia survived him by a quarter century and they are both buried at Holy Cross Cemetery.

Charlotte lived with her grandmother Warringer in Connecticut for a while and married John Buggee of Massachusetts. They lived in New Haven and had two children, Bernice and John, and she sadly passed away soon after the boy’s birth in 1907.

Lewis Moore worked on the railroad as many of his neighbors did, holding the occupation of lampman (someone who maintained lights for signals), brakeman, and general railroad laborer. In 1904 he was elected to the position of second assistant of Tivoli’s De Peyster Hose Company. In 1915 the census tells us Lewis and Bernice lived on Spring Street.

Bernice died January 6, 1920 in Tivoli and Lewis died in Manhattan at the home of his daughter Sophia Moore Minkler on Sunday, December 15, 1929.

Sources

• 1850 Federal Census, Germantown, Columbia Co. NY - Gilbert Moore

• 1855 NYS State Census, Germantown, Columbia Co. NY - Gilbert Moore

• 1860 Federal Census, Germantown, Columbia Co. NY - John G Moore 

• 1865 NYS State Census, Clermont, Columbia Co. NY - John G Moore 

• 1870 Federal Census, Clermont, Columbia Co. NY - John G Moore

• 1880 Federal Census, Tivoli, Dutchess Co. NY - Frances Warringer

• 1892 NYS State Census, Red Hook, Dutchess Co. NY - Lewis C Moore

• 1900 Federal Census, Red Hook, Dutchess Co. NY - Lewis C Moore

• 1910 Federal Census, New Haven, CT - John Buggy 

• 1910 Federal Census, NY, NY Co. NY  - #264 W 20th St Joseph Brocco

• 1915 NYS State Census, NY, NY Co. NY  - #256 W 43rd st Joseph Broca

• 1915 NYS State Census, NY, NY Co. NY  - #224 W 16th st Cleophus Moore

• 1915 NYS State Census, Red Hook, Tivoli, Dutchess Co. NY - Spring St Lewis C Moore 

• 1930 Federal Census, Brooklyn, Kings Co. NY #632 E 15th St Robert Broderick 

• 1930 Federal Census, Manhattan, NY Co. NY - #347 W 44th Cleophus Moore

• 1940 Federal Census, Manhattan, NY Co. NY - Judith Moore

• A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921

• Brooklyn Daily Times / Times Union Fri, Feb 12, 1932 ·Page 16

• Connecticut, U.S., Death Records, 1897-1968

• Connecticut, U.S., Marriage Records, 1897-1968

• Columbia Republican, 14 Apr 1904

• Columbia Republican, 6 Apr 1915

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94968409/lewis_c_moore 

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94968694/bernice_e_moore

• Hudson NY Evening Register undated paper June or July, 1901 

• New York City, Marriage Indexes, 1907-1995 License Number 11492

• New York, Death Index, 1880-1956 Certificate Number 4152

• New York, New York, Index to Marriage Licenses, 1908-1910, 1938-1940 

• New York, New York, U.S., Birth Index, 1910-1965 Certificate Number 54134

• New York, New York, U.S., Death Index, 1949-1965

• New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Death Index, 1862-1948

• New York, New York, U.S., Index to Death Certificates, 1862-1948

•  New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957

• Rhinebeck Gazette, 21 Dec 1929

• Rhinebeck Gazette, 28 Dec 1929

• U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007

• U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

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