ELIZA2 LEZENBY (Cornelius1) was born at Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, on 14 February 1858 a daughter of Cornelius Lezenby and his wife Eliza Wilson. She died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 6 May 1931.[1] She married about 1874-5 ASCHER A. MOORE.[2] He was born at Pennsylvania on 25 May 1846, and died at Philadelphia on 15 September 1932.[3]
Eliza Lezenby grew up in Camden, the ninth of ten children. She married at about the age of seventeen, and became a mother before her eighteenth birthday. She had two children, both of whom lived to adulthood. Ascher and Eliza lived in Philadelphia, for most of their years at 1349 Colwyn Street.
Ascher A. Moore, at the age of eighteen, enlisted for 100 days in the Union Army in the Civil War: Company E, 192th Pennsylvania regiment. He served from 12 July 1864 to 11 November 1864.[4] He re-enlisted on 11 April, 1865, two days after Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House. Although the main rebel force had surrendered, the Union was still enlisting men to finish the job. Ascher Moore enlisted for one year in Company F of the 215th Pennsylvania regiment. He was mustered out on 21 July 1865.[5]
The 1880 Census reported A. A. Moore, 34, living at 408 Hartman Street, Camden, wiht his wife "Lidie," 22, their son Charles, 4, sister, W. W. Wood, 28, and brother-in-law Cornelius Lezenby, 26. A. A. Moore was a salesman; Cornelius Lezenby worked as a blacksmith.[6] "W. W. Wood" could refer to Eliza's sister, Jane, who married William W. Wood.
The 1900 Census reported Ascher A. Moore, born May 1846, living at 1328 Fairhill Street, Philadelphia, with his wife, Liza, born February 1858, and their children, Charles H., born November 1875, and Jessie W., born September 1881. Ascher worked as a fireman; Charles worked for the government as a clerk.[7]
The 1910 census reported this family at the Colwyn Street address where they would remain. Ascher was a fireman. With Ascher and Eliza lived their daughter, son-in-law, and grandson. William and Jennie (Moore) Thompson had been married eight years, their son Robert was five. William was proprietor of a steam fitting business.[8] Son Charles had married about 1900-1 and lived with his wife and children at another address in Philadelphia.
In 1920 William Thompson was reported head of the household, which included his wife, Jennie, and her parents, Ascher and Eliza. The child, Robert Thompson, had died later in 1910. William was described as a heating contractor; Ascher still a fireman.[9]
In 1930 the household had the same composition. William was described as a plumber with a "general practice." Asher and Eliza were now aged 84 and 72. They would both die within three years time.[10]
Charles Hewitt Moore grew up in his early years at Camden, the eldest of two children. Some time between 1880 and 1900 the family moved to Philadelphia, where Charles' father worked as a fireman.
Charles and Caroline married in 1901, and lived in Philadelphia, where Charles worked as a clerk in the Post Office. They had three children, but only two survived infancy.
The 1910 census reported the family living at 5509 Chester Avenue, Philadelphia:[11]
| Line | Name | Related | Sex | Race | Age | MS | B | FB | MB | Occupation |
| 26. | Moore, Charles H. | head | M | W | 34 | M | NJ | PA | NJ | clerk, post office |
| 27. | Moore, Caroline Z. | wife | F | W | 28 | M | PA | PA | PA | |
| 28. | Moore, Jennie | daughter | F | W | 5 | S | PA | NJ | PA | |
| 29. | Moore, Edward | son | M | W | 3 | S | PA | NJ | PA | |
| 30. | Kirtland, Rita | cousin | F | W | 27 | S | NJ | PA | PA | bookkeeper, chemicals |
This census record additionally reported that Charles Moore owned his own home, but had a mortgage; Charles and Caroline had been married nine years; Caroline had given birth to three children, two of whom were living.
The 1920 Census reported the family at the same address, consisting of Charles H., 76 [?!], post office clerk, Caroline, 39, housekeeper, Jennie T., 15, in school, and Edward Z., 12, in school. Harry Blacker, 19. who also worked at the post office, was renting a room in their home.[12]
Daughter Jane married in 1925, and she and husband moved in with her parents: The 1930 Census reported them at 1354 Colwyn Street.[13]
| Line | Name | Related | Sex | Race | Age | MS | B | FB | MB | Occupation |
| 18. | Moore, Charles | head | M | W | 55 | M | NJ | NJ | NJ | clerk, U.S, Post Office |
| 19. | Moore, Caroline | wife | F | W | 49 | M | PA | Germany | PA | none |
| 20. | Moore, Edward | son | M | W | 22 | S | PA | NJ | PA | draftsman, plumbing + heating contractor |
| 21. | Sohn, Clarence R. | son-in-law | M | W | 30 | M | PA | PA | PA | credit manager, manufacturer men's wear |
| 22. | Sohn, Jane | daughter | F | W | 26 | M | PA | NJ | PA | stenographer, steel mill |
| 23. | Hoyt, Charles | boarder | M | W | 21 | S | OH | OH | OH | clerk, manufacturer men's wear |
This record also stated that Charles owned his home, valued at $9000; that Charles and Caroline married at the ages of 24 and 18, or 21 years before; that Clarence and Jane married at the ages of 26 and 22, or four years before.
The decade of the 1930s brought much change. Edward married in 1935. Caroline died in 1937. Some time between 1935 and 1940 Charles Moore and the Sohns moved to Florida.
The 1940 census reported that C. R. Sohn owned his home, at 718 East 87th Street, Miami, Dade County, Florida. He worked as a credit manager for a bank, 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, for $1800. Wife Jane, 35, worked as employment secretary for a retail department store, 40 hours a week. She had worked 26 weeks the previous year for $468. Charles H. Moore, 64, was described as a boarder, and was not employed. They had all lived at Philadelphia five years before. Clarence had completed four years of college; Jane and her father had completed four years of high school.[14]
Clarence H. Moore was still living in 1962, according to Social Security records.[15]
Jane (Moore) Sohn died in 1967 at Florida. Her husband Clarence had died in 1946. Caroline (Zwicker) Moore and her daughter Jane (Moore) Sohn are buried at Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.[16]
Edward Moore in 1940 was living at the home place, 1354 Colwyn Street, Philadelphia, with his wife and her parents. Edward, 32, worked 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, as an engineer for a phonograph company. His wife, Dorothy, was a homemaker. Her father, George Ballenger, 54, had been unemployed for 104 weeks; his usual job was salesman for a chemical company. Dorothy's mother, Emiline Ballenger, 49, was also a homemaker. All four reported they had been living at that address for at least five years. Edward and his wife had completed two years of High School; George and Emiline had both completed eighth grade.[17] Edward Moore died at Philadelphia in 1985. His wife Dorothy died in 1968.
Jennie W. Moore, daughter of Ascher and Eliza (Lezenby) Moore, grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where her father was a fireman. She married when she was nineteen years old, and she and her husband moved in with her parents at 1349 Colwyn Street, Philadelphia. Jennie and William Thompson had one child, Robert, who died at the age of six from diabetes.[18] Her husband, William Thompson, was in the heating and plumbing business. His occupation was variously described in census records:[19]
| Year | Occupation |
| 1910 | proprietor, steam fittings |
| 1920 | contractor, heating |
| 1930 | plumber, general practice |
The early thirites brought death to the Thompson-Moore household. In 1931 Jennie's mother died; in 1932 her father died. In 1933 Jennie's husband, William died. Jennie continued to live at the home on Colwyn Street, and in 1940 was reported in the census with three lodgers.[6] Jennie continued to live to the age of ninety-nine, dying in 1981.
Eliza Lezenby and her husband Ascher A. Moore had the following children:
1Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906–1963, certificate 47405, Mrs. Eliza L. Moore, 1931; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 15 June 2018); Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11, Series 11.90. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
2Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district (ED) 7, roll 1451, p. 1A, household 7, Ascher A. Moore family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 17 September 2015); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
3Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906–1963, certificate 79823, Mrs. Asher A Moore, 1932.
4Pennsylvania, "Civil War Muster Rolls and Related Records, 1861–1866," digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 August 2018), Muster-Out Roll, 192d Pennsylvania Infantry, Company E, 11 November 1864; Records of the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs, Record Group 19, Series 19.11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. United States Department of Veterans Affairs, "General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934," Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 16 August 2018), Moore, Asher A., no. 881667; National Archives and Records Administration. Washington, D.C., Record Group Number: 15; Series Number: T288.
5"Civil War Muster Rolls, 1861–1866," digital images, Ancestry, Muster-Out Roll, 215th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company F, 21 July 1865.
6Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, enumeration district (ED) 48, roll 774, p. 228A, household 238, A. A. Moore family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 30 November 2014); NARA microfilm publication T9; Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
71900 Census, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, ED 7, roll 1451, p. 1A, household 7, Ascher A. Moore family.
8Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district (ED) 1103, roll 1412, p. 6B, household 128, Asher A. Moore family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 17 September 2015); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
9Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district (ED) 1628, roll 1644, p. 2B, household 42, William Thompson family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 17 September 2015); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
10Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district (ED) 1092, roll 2136, p. 10A, household 158, William P. Thompson family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 17 September 2015); NARA microfilm record group T626; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
111910 Census, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, ED 1038, roll 1410, p. 7A, household 153, Charles H. Moore family.
121920 Census, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, ED 1500, roll 1642, p. 8A, household 158, Charles H. Moore family.
131930 Census, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, ED 1092, roll 2136, p. 12A, household 182, Charles Moore family.
14Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, population, Miami, Dade County, Florida, enumeration district (ED) 69-1A, roll 628, p. 2A, household 36, C. R. Sohn family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2 October 2015); NARA microfilm group T627.
15United States Social Security Administration, "Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 17 September 2015), Charles Hewitt Moore, 266765794.
16Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 28 October 2016), Caroline Z. Moore & Jane M. Sohn; Created by: raytracer.
171940 Census, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ED 51-1777, roll 3742, p. 12A, household 225, Edward Moore family.
18Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, City Death Certificates, 1803-1915, no. 30243, Robert Thompson, 13 December 1910; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 28 October 2016); Philadelphia City Archives and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. FHL microfilm 1,405,399.
191910 Census, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, ED 1103, roll 1412, p. 6B, household 128, Asher A. Moore family. 1920 Census, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, ED 1628, roll 1644, p. 2B, household 42, William Thompson family. 1930 Census, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, ED 1092, roll 2136, p. 10A, household 158, William P. Thompson family.
201940 Census, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, ED 51-1777, roll 3742, p. 10B, household 201, Jennie M. Thompson.
21"Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007," Charles Hewitt Moore, 266765794.
22David Barnett to Charles A. Maxfield, electronic mail, 19 October 2015, "mark up of Lezenby descendants,"; privately held.
23Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906–1963, , Caroline Moore, no. 47849, 1937.
24Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, Caroline Z. Moore & Jane M. Sohn; Created by: raytracer. Day month + place provided by informant.
25Barnett to Charles A. Maxfield, electronic mail, 19 October 2015.
26Pennsylvania Department of Health. Birth certificates, 1906–1910. Series 11.89, no. 157258, Edward Zwicker Moore, 20 November 1907; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 28 October 2016); Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania..
27Social Security Administration, "U.S. Social Security Death Index," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 28 October 2016), Edward Moore, 161-09-4730.
28New Jersey State Archive; Trenton, New Jersey "Marriage Index, 1901-1966," index, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 22 July 2018), Moore-Ballinger 1935.
291940 Census, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ED 51-1777, roll 3742, p. 12A, household 225, Edward Moore family.
30Barnett to Charles A. Maxfield, electronic mail, 19 October 2015.
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Social Security Administration, "U.S. Social Security Death Index", Jennie Thompson, 192-26-3635. Barnett to Charles A. Maxfield, electronic mail, 19 October 2015.
321910 Census, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, ED 1103, roll 1412, p. 6B, household 128, Asher A. Moore family.
33Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906–1963, no. 84563, William P. Thompson, 1933.
34Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, City Death Certificates, 1803-1915, no. 30243, Robert Thompson, 13 December 1910.
I am indebted to David Barnett, who has shared his research with me through electronic mail, and who has posted much information on the internet at findagrave.com as David B.
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