This picture is made from copies of tintypes of Clem B. White Moore and an unknown woman who *may* be Elizabeth B. White Moore.

Clem Benton White Moore was born on 29 June sometime between 1841-1843 in TN. In the 1850 census of Nacogdoches County, TX, he was living in the household of Asa Moore and Elizabeth B. White Moore. He is listed as C.B. White Moore, age 6. Some have noticed some kind of erasure around his name. He is listed on the School Census of Nacogdoches County in 1854 as 'Clemuel Moore' but that is the only time I have ever seen 'Clemuel'. In 1860, he is listed in Asa and Elizabeth's household as Clem Moore, age 17, born in TN.

Clem enlisted in the Confederate Army of Texas at Camp Hebert, near Hempstead, TX on 13 Jan, 1862, and was listed on the muster-in roll as C.B. Moore, age 19, a private in Company G, Young's Regiment, Texas Infantry. His last muster roll shows him as a 4th Corporal, Company G, paid by Captain B.C. Jones, on 28 Feb, 1862. He was on sick furlough from 11 August through October of 1862. [Is there a typo on one of these dates? This information provided by granddaughter, Nell Moore Scherwicke in a letter to Ann Phillips].

After the war, in 1870, Clem is founnd in Williamson County, TX, living in the household of Samuel QUEEN near Florence, TX. He was recorded as 27 years old. He married Samuel's daughter, Mary E. QUEEN on 28 July, 1872, but within a year she had died in childbirth.

Sometime around 1873 or 1874, Clem affiliated with the Baptist Missionary Church (per Immemorial"); in 1879 and in 1890, records show Clem to be an Elder in this church.

On 18 August, 1874, in Williamson Co, TX, Clem married Martha Elizabeth Standlee (Rinkle), a widow with six children. Their first child was stillborn. In 1875, on 18 May, a son, named Samuel Queen MOORE was born. A second son, William Benton MOORE was born on 12 October, 1878 in Lometa, Lampasas Co, TX, where that year, Clem and his family had homesteaded by preemption on Sims Creek.

The 1880 Lampasas Co, TX census shows Clem as head of household, age 37, with wife and children. He is shown as born in TN, but the space for his parents' birthplaces is left blank.

In 1888, Clem and his family moved to the Opie Community, east of Ryan, in Jefferson Co, OK. According to a notation on an old photograph of a community gathering, Clem was still living in the Opie Community in 1897. However, by 1902, Clem homesteaded in Comanche Co, OK, east of Fletcher. His name was given as Charles B. MOORE on his homestead papers, but his wife crossed it out and wrote "Clem".

Clem Benton White Moore died on 28 February 1908 in Comanche Co, OK and is buried in the IOOF (International Order of Odd Fellows) Cemetery in Clement, OK.

Clem's nickname was "Cotton" -- as he was a cotton farmer at one time, and was fair-complexioned.

Clem's son, Samuel Queen MOORE went by Samuel Andrew MOORE in later years. He married Maggie SESSUMS on 6 December, 1896 at Opie Community, OK, Indian Territory. On 18 March 1903 in Lawton, OK, he married Edna WIDENER. He had 5 children.

William Benton MOORE married Bertha Pearl JOHNSON on 27 December 1906 in Anadarko, OK. They had 6 children. Nell MOORE Schwericke was the oldest. The research and most of the details of the above sketch, plus the photocopy of the tintype of Clem and an unknown woman, were all provided to me through Nell's generosity. Nell had a daughter Elan and a grandson. I would love to be in contact with her again and with her descendants. The last address I had for her was in Edmond, Oklahoma.

Nell M. Schwericke shared several Family stories and traditons about Clem with my mother, grandmother and me. "Dad [William Benton MOORE] always claimed he remembered an incident when he was several years old about his name. Dad had only the name WILLIAM for several years and he remembered some woman in house with his mother saying, "Why not name him BENTON, after all, that's his real name." [More stories coming]