Theresa S. (Terressa) Moyers

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 15 Jun 1860, Bee Creek P.O., Cumberland Co, Tennessee
• Other-Begin: 20 Aug 1866, Civil War Pension, Company K, 1st Tennessee Infantry
• Census: 1870, Ormes Store P.O., Bledsoe Co, Tennessee
• Census: 1880, Pikeville, Bledsoe Co, Tennessee
• Census: 1900, Marion Co, Tennessee

Notes:

Every now and then a soul from the past seems to just jump off the census pages and become a living, breathing person; such is the case of Terressa Moyers. She was a sister to my grandfather, 18 years his junior.
In June of 1860, she was 19 years old, still living at home with her parents and what few siblings were still home. A nearby neighbor was the Dugger family, and in particular a son Wylie, who was 22. It's possible they were courting at that time, and enjoying youth and budding romance. Sometime probably soon after that census was taken, they married and started their own home. It is said that her mother died at Terressa's home in 1860; so she was clearly a newlywed when she lost her mother. By January of '61, she conceived; but only a month before the blessed time for her delivery, her husband enlisted for the war along with his father and his brother Harding; leaving Theresa with family and friends to bring their baby into a war torn world. She named her baby Violet, perhaps for the fresh beauty of the flower, maybe even her favorite.
Sadly, by the end of 1862, Wiley came down with disease and died on Christmas Day. His father Henry was not long behind him, dying also of disease the following May of 1863.
Theresa never remarried. By the 1870 census, she is living with an elderly couple in their 70s, named Worthington, with Violet.

Then by 1880, it's just she and her daughter. Two years later Violet marries and starts her own family. It's easy to assume that Theresa lived with them and enjoyed her grandchildren as they were being born. By the time the 1900 census is taken, there are four, ranging from 2 to 12.
The following decade was tragically the end. John Farmer died in 1901, and Violet died in 1915. It's unknown when Theresa died, but it must have been in decade, as well, as by the 1910 census, three of the younger kids, in their tween years, were staying with "Rusty" Dugger who identified himself as their grandfather, born 1831. It's not determined exactly who he was, but probably a great uncle.
Rest in Peace, Aunt Theresa.


Census:
Christopher Moyers 62
Sarah Moyers 56
Henry Y Moyers 22
Terrissa S Moyers 19 * she m Wylie Dagger aft this census
Robert A B Moyers 16

114 Dagger (Dugger) Henry 54 1806 North Carolina
114 Dagger Sarah 48 1812 North Carolina
114 Dagger Wiley 22 1838 Tennessee
* m Terressa Moyers he died in Civil War
114 Dagger Harding 20 1840 Tennessee
114 Dagger Enoch A 17 1843 Tennessee
114 Dagger Margaret E 9 1851 Tennessee
114 Hedgeman Elender 32 1828 North Carolina
114 Dyer Lydia 60 1800 Tennessee (relative of Terressa's sister's husband)

116 Dugger John W 29 1831 North Carolina
116 Dugger Catharine 26 1834 Tennessee
116 Dugger George W 5 1855 Tennessee
116 Dugger Mary E 4 1856 Tennessee
116 Dugger Emly J 31857 Tennessee
116 Dugger Francis M 2 1858 Tennessee
116 Dugger David M 9/12 1859 Tennessee


Other-Begin:
soldier: Dugger, Wiley L.
applicant: widow: Dugger, Theresa S.
Company K. 1. E. Tennessee
date of filing: 1866 Aug 20
application no. 123093
certificate no. 91004


Census:
70 Worthington R K 78 1792 Tennessee
70 Worthington Sarah 66 1804 South Carolina
70 Dugger Ferna 29 1841 Female Tennessee
70 Dugger Violet 8 1862 Female Tennessee

per 1900 census, Bledsoe:
Dallas Stone, dau of Patrick and Mary, married a Worthington, had a son named Brown Worthingtonton, born 1897


Census:
Terressa Dugger 40
Violett Dugger 18


Census:
John Fanlus 44 Dec 1855 m 18 yrs 1882
Violet J Fanlus 38 Sep 1861
Ethel M Fanlus 17 Sep 1882
Hilton B Fanlus 6 May 1894
Lonna J Fanlus 4 Feb 1896
Roger H Fanlus 1 Jun 1898
Terressa Dugges 59 Mar 1841 mother-in-law wid

Theresa married Wiley L. Dugger after Jun 1860 in Bledsoe Co, Tennessee. Wiley (son of Henry Dugger and Sarah Green) was born in 1837 in Tennessee; died on 25 Dec 1862 in Civil War. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Every now and then, while tracing these early pioneers, there comes one who seems to come alive more than others. Such has been the case for Therressa Moyers. She was 19, living with her father's family. The Dugger family lived very close by. They had son Wiley, age 22. Census takers had been by in June, and by

Violet married John Marshall Farmer in 1882 in Tennessee. John (son of Acquilla A. Farmer and Mary A. "Polly" Hall) was born in Dec 1855 in Pikesville, Bledsoe Co, Tennessee; died on 16 Jul 1901 in Pikesville, Bledsoe Co, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1910, Pikeville, Bledsoe Co, Tennessee

Notes:

Census:
Rusty Dugger 69 1841 widowed TN TN GA
Hilton Farmer 15 1895 grandson TN TN TN
Larene Farmer 14 1896 granddaughter TN TN TN
Rodgers Farmer 11 1899 grandson TN TN TN

Who is Rusty? Not grandfather as grandfather Wiley and great grandfather Henry bothdied in Civil War.
He said mom born GA and only Dugger mom who was born in GA was Elizabeth Caroline Bell, b 1844 and married Enoch Dugger who was born in 1843. But Enoch was in Missouri in 1900 and died in Kansas in 1920; but guess he could have come back to TN 1910. Really not likely. Also, Rusty says born 1841. I have found no Dugger born in 1841.
Enoch was a brother to the boy's father Wiley. Wiley's other likely brother to be surrogate grandfather would Harding, but he was in Oregon in 1910.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1910, Pikeville, Bledsoe Co, Tennessee

Notes:

Census:
Rusty Dugger 69 1841 widowed TN TN GA
Hilton Farmer 15 1895 grandson TN TN TN
Larene Farmer 14 1896 granddaughter TN TN TN
Rodgers Farmer 11 1899 grandson TN TN TN

Who is Rusty? Not grandfather as grandfather Wiley and great grandfather Henry bothdied in Civil War.
He said mom born GA and only Dugger mom who was born in GA was Elizabeth Caroline Bell, b 1844 and married Enoch Dugger who was born in 1843. But Enoch was in Missouri in 1900 and died in Kansas in 1920; but guess he could have come back to TN 1910. Really not likely. Also, Rusty says born 1841. I have found no Dugger born in 1841.
Enoch was a brother to the boy's father Wiley. Wiley's other likely brother to be surrogate grandfather would Harding, but he was in Oregon in 1910.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1910, Pikeville, Bledsoe Co, Tennessee

Notes:

Census:
Rusty Dugger 69 1841 widowed TN TN GA
Hilton Farmer 15 1895 grandson TN TN TN
Larene Farmer 14 1896 granddaughter TN TN TN
Rodgers Farmer 11 1899 grandson TN TN TN

Who is Rusty? Not grandfather as grandfather Wiley and great grandfather Henry bothdied in Civil War.
He said mom born GA and only Dugger mom who was born in GA was Elizabeth Caroline Bell, b 1844 and married Enoch Dugger who was born in 1843. But Enoch was in Missouri in 1900 and died in Kansas in 1920; but guess he could have come back to TN 1910. Really not likely. Also, Rusty says born 1841. I have found no Dugger born in 1841.
Enoch was a brother to the boy's father Wiley. Wiley's other likely brother to be surrogate grandfather would Harding, but he was in Oregon in 1910.