CHAPTER XI HIS traces my wife's father back as far as I know, and I now take up the mother of my wife, Jacqueline Anne Bland, wife of Samuel Pike Hall, who died July 8th, 1907, and is buried at Santa Clara. She was born in North Carolina, daughter of John Bland* of North Carolina, and Jane Moore of Georgia, his wife. This John Bland who married Jane Moore, was son of Theophilus Bland of same State, and his wife, Sarah Joiner. The Blands in the early days were, and they still are, patriotic and useful citizens. Some of them were of great prominence in the early history of. Virginia. There have been born of the marriage of my wife and myself six children, all, save our eldest boy, alive and well and all adult. Named in order of age they are: Ethel Moore, Albert A. Moore, Jr., Carmen Moore, Stanley Moore, Jacqueline Anne Moore and Margaret Moore. Both of our sons were, like myself, bred to the law, practicing in San Francisco and Oakland. Stanley and I still practice in San Francisco. Our first born son, my namesake, in June, 1914, was suddenly killed in a motor car accident. He was all a man could be; good husband, son, brother, and citizen, *A grandmother of General Robert E. Lee was a Bland. sound in mind and body, capable, alert-minded and useful. He was a graduate of the law department of Yale; had been an assistant in the office of the attorney-general of California; a deputy district attorney of Alameda County, and judge of a municipal court. Before he was thirty he had been admitted to practice in all courts in California, State and Federal, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Of late he had retired from practice and engaged in management of his own affairs. He took life earnestly, but with gladness, too. Now he has left us. God rest his soul. We grieve for him continually, with sorrow that must abide, until we lie with him on the hillside. My oldest daughter, Ethel, is unmarried. A. A. Moore, Jr., married Florence B. Hinckley, who survives him, but there was no issue. Carmen married Walter Augustus Starr, of an old English colonial family. Mr. Starr's remotest American ancestor is Comfort Starr, who settled in New England with or about the time of the Pilgrim Fathers. They have two young boys, W. A. Starr, Jr., and Allen Moore Starr. Stanley was first married to Marion, daughter of William Scott Goodfellow, and his wife, Alice Annoot. There is issue of that marriage, a boy, Albert Arthur Moore, born March 3rd, 1907, first in his generation of the name, in my branch. William Scott Goodfellow was of Scotch origin, born in New Zealand, graduated at Cambridge, England, and later, after admission to the bar, came to California, where he took and kept to his untimely death in 1913, a place among the best and most prominent members of the bar of California and the West. After the death of his wife, Marion, Stanley Moore married Miss Belle Williams, of Williams, Colusa County, California, and there are living, issue of the marriage, Mary Belle, Elizabeth, and my second Moore grandson, Stanley Williams Moore. Belle Williams' father was native of Maryland, and for many years in California was a prosperous stock raiser and farmer. Belle's mother, who survives, was born in Dublin, Ireland. Jacqueline Anne Moore married John J. Valentine, Jr., son of John J. Valentine, deceased, late president Wells Fargo & Company, and his wife, Mary George. Mr. Valentine, Sr., was a native of Kentucky, but of Virginia stock, seated at Williamsburgh. There are three children alive and hearty of the marriage last noted, to wit: Jacqueline Anne Valentine, John J. Valentine, Jr., and Stanley Moore Valentine. Our youngest daughter, Margaret, was very lately married to Mr. Donald McClure, a young lawyer of San Francisco. |