Helen Estes Seltzer - Cary-Estes-Moore Genealogy

THE CARY-ESTES-MOORE GENEALOGY

W RITTEN AND C OMPILED BY HELEN ESTES SELTZER

P UBLISHED 1981, UPDATED 2018 BY HER SON R ICHARD W ARREN S ELTZER , JR .

Copyright 1981 by Helen Estes Seltzer

Library of Congress Card Number 79-54001

ISBN 0-931968-01-1

Typeset by Richard Warren Seltzer, Sr. and Jr.

Dustjacket by Henry Altmann

Design by Henry Altmann, Maxine Sorokin, and Richard Warren Seltzer, Jr.

Updated 2018 by her son Richard Warren Seltzer, Jr.

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THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO AUNT SALLIE ESTES, a warm gracious Christian Southern lady, the matriarch of our Albert Monroe Estes Family Line; because she embraces all generations in her knowledge and love of her family members, Estes and Moore, past and present, and she shared this vast knowledge with all of us for this book; but mostly because she has shown great love and hospitality to this Northern niece all through the years, and is Home to me and my family in the Homeland of my Tennessee ancestors.

Helen Estes Seltzer

Acknowledgments

My first acknowledgments go to cousins May Folk Webb and Patrick Mann Estes, who dedicated many decades of their lives to researching and writing the original CARY-ESTES GENEALOGY, without which this book would never have come into being.

Thanks to my son, Richard, who encouraged me to research and write it and directed every step of the publishing, and to my husband, Dick, for the support and financial backing without which it could never have become a reality. I also want to thank my husband and my daughter, Sallie Estes, for putting up with my obsessive behavior these past five years. They both gave the book first place in my life.

Being a candidate for membership in the National Society of Colonial Dames in America, concurrently with writing this genealogy, I was able to uncover information that will benefit us all. I discovered that some of the generations given in the CARY-ESTES GENEALOGY showing our direct descent from the original Cary immigrant, Miles, were not thoroughly documented. Mrs. Albert O. Barrett, of Devon, Pa., a genealogist assigned to me by the Philadelphia branch of the Society, prodded me to go, in person, to the source, the Virginia State Library, in Richmond, and dig out the documents which give concrete proof of this lineage. These documents are included in the History and Documents segments of this book. Mrs. Barrett was a hard taskmaster, but I persevered and did find the documents after several trips. Because of her, this book is a more valuable and authentic research tool for others needing this documentation.

Librarians from the Huntingdon Valley, Pa.; Montgomery County, Norristown, Pa., branch; the Free Library of Philadelphia, Logan Square branch; Pennsylvania Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pa.; the Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; the Philadelphia College of Art; and the Virginia State, Richmond, Va., Libraries must be acknowledged for their help in my research efforts. But one librarian stands out above all the others involved. She is Lia Hemphill, Head of the Reference Department of the Ludington Library of Bryn Mawr, Pa. From arranging an inter-library loan of a pristine copy of the CARY-ESTES GENEALOGY for our reprint, up to the last day of getting data for the CARY-ESTES-MOORE GENEALOGY bibliography, she was always courteous, willing to give of herself, with the added dimension of being very interested and enthusiastic about my research and the publications of the books.

The alumni associations of Yale University and the University of Alabama were also very cooperative. It seems miraculous to me that from one name and address of a Snedecor alumnus from the latter university, the hundreds of cousins from the Judge Bedford Mitchell Estes branch of the family were able to be listed here.

Many family members sent supplementary materials and photographs, at times duplicating those sent by others. In the main body of the book I have acknowledged those whose items were received first. The following is a sampling of those, not credited elsewhere in the text, who sent substantial information on their family branches:

Albert Monroe (5) Estes Line: Mr. Russell G. Evans and Mr. and Mrs. Warner Moore Estes, of Ripley, Tenn.; and Mrs. James Roy Carson, and Mr. Albert E. Dykes, of Nashville, Tenn.

Mary Noel (7) Estes Line: Mr. Thomas E. Moody, IV, of San Antonio, Texas, and Mr. James Shelton Moody, of Plant City, Fla. Elisha (3) Estes Line: Mrs. Samuel G. Slaughter, Jr., of Lynchburg, Va.

Patrick Mann (8) Estes Line: Mrs. Joseph P. Lawrence, of Nashville, Tenn.

(Carey) Estes Kefauver: Ms. Gail Estes Kefauver, of San Francisco, Calif.

Cary Family - Blair Line: Mr. P. Blair Lee, of Philadelphia, Pa. Moore Family - Green Hill Line: Mrs. Bennett Gram, of Columbia, Pa.

But the most important acknowledgment of all is to the individual family members who took time from their busy lives to fill out the Ancestor and Descendant Charts I mailed to them. With the concerted effort of all, we should be able to have our book updated every five years, or whenever enough material has accumulated to warrant publication. Please keep the data coming and report immediately whenever births, marriages, and deaths occur in your families. And Ill also be happy to receive clippings about these events and also about outstanding achievements in your families for possible inclusion in the next Activities and Accolades.

Thank you, everyone!

A. K.A., also known as

b., bom

B. B.C., British Broadcasting Corporation bro., brother

bur., buried

C-E, CARY-ESTES GENEALOGY

cem., cemetery

Co., County, Company

Col., Colonel, Colonial

cr. Kt. Bach., crown Knight Bachelor

Ct., Circuit

d., died

dau., daughter

dist., district

Ed.D., Doctor of Education

Esq., Esquire

est., estate

ex.,.executor

Ind., Independence

LDS, Latter Day Saints

md., married

M.P., Member of Parliament

ms., manuscript

mil., militia

no., number

pub., published

quar., quarterly

RLDS, Reformed Latter Day Saints R.M.C., Royal Marine Corps unmd., unmarried W.B., Will Book

There are many American families with the names Cary, Estes, and Moore. Numerous genealogy books have been written on all three. This book focuses on one branch of each family and traces them from the earliest known ancestors to the present generation.

All three families came to America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Carys came from England; the Estes from Italy, by way of England; and the Moores from Scotland.