John D. Whiteside carried to Abraham Lincoln the challenge to the duel with General Shields. In that proposed duel there were made queer conditions, and fortunately the combat was avoided. General Whiteside commanded a brigade in the Black Hawk War.

John Moore was on December 23rd, 1794, married to Elizabeth Whiteside (born Nov. 24th, 1779; died Oct. 14th, 1827). Of this marriage twelve children were born. After my grandmother's death John married Ann Reid of South Carolina, and there was one son issue of that marriage. The children of John Moore and Elizabeth Whiteside, his wife, were:

Sebastian, born Dec. 25th, 1795; died young. Mary, born Jan. 26th, 1797; married Wm. Sterrett. James, born Aug. 23rd, 1799, married Ruth Stone and second married E. Crump of Virginia.

Enoch, born March 26th, 1802, married Charlotte Sherman.

William Whiteside, born May 25th, 1805, married Nancy Vernon O'Melveny.

Katherine, born Aug. 7th, 1807; married Thomas Stanton.

John Milton, born July 15th, 1810; married Lucretia D. Stone.

Sarah, born Jan. 25th, 1813; married William Eberman.

Hester A., born Jan. 26th, 1818; married Norman Allyn.

Francis, born July 1st, 1820; died young.

Nelson Soule, born June 28, 1824; married Sarah Bustle.

Joseph O., born of second marriage, was married, but I have no trace of him. At one time he lived in Denver.

William Whiteside Moore, my father, born May 25th, 1805-died February, 1877-was the fourth child. He lived at and near the place of his birth to manhood, and there on November 27th, 1828, was married to my mother, Nancy Vernon O'Melveny, who was born at Charleston, South Carolina, April 1st, 1802. She died February 19th, 1883, and is buried with my father at San Lorenzo, California.

CHAPTER VIII

SPEAK now of my mother's family. John O'Melveny, with his wife, two younger sons, Patrick and William, and a daughter, Mary (who married a McConnell and settled in Tennessee), came from Ireland about 1798-9, and, after a few years residence in Kentucky settled in what later became Pope County, Illinois, near his oldest son, Samuel, who landed in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1797 or 1798, where he married and soon after went to Illinois Territory, settling in Pope County, on the Ohio River. In addition to farming, trading and flat-boating to New Orleans, Samuel was for that day an extensive dealer in the products of the country-corn and hogs. Later he removed to Randolph County, and was a member of the county court in 1819. Still later he resided in and represented Union County in the legislature in 1820-22, and died about 1828. His mother died the year of their arrival, and his father and younger brother Patrick the year following. His children: George died at thirty, and John lived long in Pope County, a successful merchant and trader; Margaret (married Wood) and Mary are long since dead.

William, the youngest son of John, born in Ireland, 1775-Protestant-married 1799, in South Carolina,

Susan McKee (Scotch, but born in Ireland), moved to Kentucky in 1804-5, settling near Elkton, Todd County. He had six sons and five daughters: (1) John, born in Kentucky, 1800, lawyer, settled at Carlyle, Clinton County, Illinois, in 1830, where he practiced law till he died in 1836; served in Capt. Andrew Bankson's company in Black Hawk War. (2) William W., born in Monroe County, 1829; brought up to the law; county clerk, 1843-8. (3) James M., bred to his father's trade, brick-making; in 1853 entered the mercantile business in Centralia; was postmaster for several years, and lived later at East St. Louis, where one of his sons was city attorney. (4) Edward, lawyer, represented Monroe County in the Legislature of 1846-8; was Presidential elector in 1852 on the Pierce ticket and died before the Rebellion. (5) Harvey K. S., also a lawyer of Centralia, was judge of the second circuit from 185861, filling the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Judge Breese; moved during the late war to California, where he practiced law until his death. (6) Constantine was killed in his eighteenth year at Waterloo by the accidental discharge of a gun. Of the daughters, Nancy Vernon, born 1802, married, 1828, William Whiteside Moore in Monroe County, and died in Oakland, California, February, 1883; Martha and Mary, twins, born 1804, married, and have descendants; Susan, fourth, died at Centerville, California, 1864; Elizabeth, fifth (Concannon) died in Oakland, California. The mother of this numerous family died February, 1875, aged 93.