Tuesday, February 06, 2024
Wood River Massacre
[What follows is probably of interest only to my family.]
Monument near the Hilltop Auction and Banquet House at 2612 Fosterburg Road, Alton, Illinois:
The victims of the Wood River Massacre (July 10, 1814) were Rachel Reagan, her children Elizabeth and Timothy, and her nephews William and Joel (sons of Rachel's brother Abel Moore) and John and George (sons of Rachel's brother William Moore). William and Abel Moore, with their sister Rachel, were the children of my 6th great-grandfather, John D. Moore (died 1808).
Line of descent:
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Monument near the Hilltop Auction and Banquet House at 2612 Fosterburg Road, Alton, Illinois:
Line of descent:
John D. Moore (died 1808), father ofOn the massacre see Gillum Ferguson, Illinois in the War of 1812 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012), pp. 159-160, and John J. Dunphy, The Moores of Madison County, Illinois: A Pioneer and Civil War Saga," Springhouse Magazine 33.6 (2020).
John D. Moore Jr. (1768-1837), father of
Elizabeth A. Moore (1797-1847), mother of
John B. Wagner (1819-1862), father of
Emily M. Wagner (1842-1913), mother of
Elmer B. Gilleland (1864-1941), father of
Roy E. Gilleland (1886-1941), my grandfather
