Cecil John  MOORE

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Cecil John MOORE was born 15 April 1900 in Galt, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Cecil John MOORE was the child of John MORRE   and   Sarah Albertha BOOTH and the grandchild of: (paternal)  William Henry MOORE and Rebecca MCDEVITT (maternal)  John BOOTH and Margaret EATON

Cecil John was an immigrant to the United States, arriving by 1922.

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Cecil John  married  Josephine Stuart FORBES 2 July 1920 in Preston, Ontario, Canada .  The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Josephine Stuart FORBES  was born 10 June 1900 in Wiarton, Bruce, Ontario, Canada.  Josephine Stuart died 2 August 1990 in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA.  Josephine Stuart was the child of Robert-Wallace FORBES and Agnes Beggs Hamilton WILSON.

Cecil John MOORE died 21 December 1973 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.





When Cecil John Moore was born on April 15, 1900, in Galt, Ontario, Canada, his father, John, was 33 and his mother, Sarah, was 31. In the 1901 Cesus of Canada he is 11 mos old. In the 1911 Census of Canada he is 11 years old and living in Galt with his parents and 2 siblings - Howard, 17, Hazel, 14. Nine years later, in 1920 he married Josephine Stuart Forbes. They had sons: Wilbur Wallace and Lionel Laurence. On August 3, 1930, he married Fern Jones. They had one daughter, Barbara. He then married Mary Myer on August 3, 1940. They lived the rest of their lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Cecil died on December 21, 1973, at the age of 73.

After leaving Gardiner, MT - C.J. Moore was a traveling salesman, living in Oklahoma, Colorado, Montana, San Antonio, TX

In 1957 he worked at a place called Basic Incorporated Western Division in New Mexico.

He loved horses. It was a dream of his to start an amusement park and call it Frontier Town. In a letter dated 28 March 1972 he said he had "been given 3 broker firms that all are in deep interest in financing an Amusement Park, one in California, one in Freeport, Ill. and other in Switzerland....have important meeting tonite with 3 & again Sat. nite with all of us on a telephone conference set up with the California Broker." In a letter dated June 1973 he was still working on it. He died December 1973.

photo/ portrait (above) from familysearch.org

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