BORLAND : GRAY : MOORES : RYAN : WALTER : Genealogy Query


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25-May-2004

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BORLAND : GRAY : MOORES : RYAN : WALTER

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We seek your help, which you may or may not be able to provide, if not would you kindly point us to where we might find help? That which we seek is: A copy of Fanny (Fannie) Green (Borland) Moores' (aka, Violet Lea), written tribute to Holly Springs', Harvey Walter following his yellow fever death in 1878, as reported in her obituary (death by yellow fever as was her husband a year earlier) found on front page of The Memphis Daily Avalanche, 24 August 1879. Mrs. Moores was proclaimed as one of the Belles-of the Ball in Little Rock & Memphis in her obituary and later in 1894 by General John M. Harrell in "Confederate Veterans" issue, --- she, the eldest daughter of frontiersman, Dr. Solon Borland, Esq. (1811VA-1864TX) of Memphis & Little Rock, served as a Major in Mexican-American War (captured & escaped) 1846-1847, U. S. Senator 1848-1853, U. S. Minister to Nicaragua 1853-1854 and a Confederate Colonel early in Civil War, who organized the 3rd Reg., Ark. Cavalry, CSA, died first day of January, 1864, a ferry ride from where Texans won their independence, 21 Apr 1836 with Sam Houston's, 18 minute battle of San Jacinto on childhood (Murfreesboro, NC) acquaintance Col. James Morgan's land, whose mulatto servant is the "Yellow Rose of Texas"! Fanny's uncle was; Dr. Euclid Borland (1809VA-1881VA), resident operator of father-in-law Augustus Moore's (1784NC-1843MS) plantations in northern Marshall County MS. Fannie was a personal friend and surrogate daughter to 'Colonel' Oliver Crosby Gray, who 20 Dec 1862, a Lt, in command of Company A, 3rd Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry, CSA in Gen Van Doran's decisive raid of Holly Springs, Gray, who with wife and son had 2-years earlier, lived for 1-year on the Wills Plantation, 9-miles north-west of Holly Springs as teachers before removing to Princeton, Dallas County, AR. It was in their Little Rock home were Fannie married James C. Moores, Tuesday morning, 21 Apr 1869!.. Possibly most famous of Mrs. Moores' works is; "Dead Confederacy"poem, <http://members.cox.net/confed/poetry/poem99.html>, highly acclaimed in London's "Cosmopolitan" 21 December 1871, having been furnished by Father Abram P. Ryan, a copy of said article, published in The Daily Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, Sunday, January 21, 1872, page 2, column3. Your response will be greatly appreciated,