History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 755, Kerton Township
Joseph E. Moore, farmer, sec. 14; P. O., Marbletown; was born in
1843 in Missouri. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, who married
Lydia Mosslander, and had 8 children. They then moved to Fulton county,
where Joseph, the second of the children, passed his boyhood. During
the war he enlisted in Co. I, 85th Ill. Inf., as a private, and was
engaged in the battles of Chickamauga, Jonesboro, Kenesaw Mountain,
Rome, Buzzard Roost, etc. Honorably discharged at Springfield, Ill., he
returned to this township, where he married Clarissa Jewel, by whom he
has had 3 children, - Clarissa E., Dora M. and Myrtle V.
