Thomas Moore
Tom Moore was born April 17, 1902 in Camden, New Jersey. He
was one of seven children born to
Charles and Margaretta Moore. He was always a
little slow possibly from a childhood illness. His father died when he was
17-yrs-old followed by the death of his oldest brother and mother the next
year. At this time he was working as a teamster for a livery stable. When he was older he married a woman much
older than himself. I remember them visiting our home and bringing alone her little
Chihuahua dog. I don’t remember her name. He had a great number of jobs during
his life, only staying at each job for one or two years. He worked on the state
highway department and Delaware Twp. (Cherry Hill) highway department. He also
worked as a hospital attendant at New Lisbon, West Jersey, Lakeland, and the
Bridgeton Mental hospital. I remember being kind of intimidated by his missing
finger. He was bitten by a resident at one of those mental hospitals and after
it became infected had it amputated. He also had a number of other jobs doing
things like farm worker, truck driver, hotel employee and more. A few years before he died he came to live with
my family. My mom described him as childlike. She had to tell him to take a
bath, put his dirty clothes in the hamper and more. He really liked my brother
but pretty much ignored me. One time he brought presents home from the seashore
for my brother and me. Mine was a sailor hat with the name Irene stitched on
it. The only problem was despite the fact we lived in the same house for a few
years – my name is Arlene. A few months before he died he married again and
moved out of our house. The wife and her children were strange. One of her son’s
used to bay at the moon when it was full. The marriage ended with the death of
my Uncle Tom after he had a mysterious fall. That was January 14, 1961. He was
buried next to his mother and father in New Camden Cemetery, Camden, NJ.
#52 Ancestors, #Thomas Moore
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