Submitted by: Asa Daniel

The old Moore Farm house, built in about 1851 with slave labor by pioneer settler Charles Edmund Moore of Georgia. The sill under the house were hand hewn and ran to 52 feet long from virgin pine lumber. The ridge pole in the house was also one continuous log 52 ft long. The construction of the house showed the work of skilled workmen. At the time that I visited the house there was a hand forged wrought iron fence around the yard. The farm house was built on a hill which commanded sprawling fields with forest in the distance, including Frazier Creek bottom. Bluff Springs and Calvary Springs were Landmarks. The farm/Plantation is said to have covered 1170 acres, and the Moores owned other tracts of land not adjacent to the original plantation. When my grandfather Pammy Norris Daniel took control of the farm in 1922 or 1923 it cover 900 plus acres, he brought his own labor from Georgia and set the record for making cotton since the civil war. Some of the people that he brought was Hovie Sword, Oscar James Family, the Gingles and others not known to me. This plantation was directly east of Kildare and was said to be very fine farming land. In the early producing a bale of cotton per acre. It had its own Blacksmith , cotton gin, tanning vats, commissary, wine press and grist mill. Mr. Moore's brother in laws, Charles Edmund and Moore Gallaway, became land owners from where the Hulme place was at Gallaway Crossing to the area of Lodi. The Moores and Gallaways gave the right of way for the T and P railway through Kildare. Mr. Moore was the Grandfather of the late Paul and Gorman Moore of Kildare. They were buried in the Moore family cemetery, which is located at Kildare Junction (I think). The cemetery has the same type wrought iron fence that enclosed the yard at the old farm. I've heard two stories about the fence. 1.) That the fence was moved there from the farm 2.) that donation were taken to have the fence made. Personally I like the first story, true or not. After the civil war the farm was farmed by various overseers and tenants, until about 1945-46. Lee Shelton, H. T. Turner and Pammy Norris Daniel were some of the overseers around the turn of the century. Other families living on the farm in later years included the Haskell Tollisons, the Bill Prestridges, the Fred Rosser's and the Oscar James family. It adjoined the huge Covey plantation. J.K. Heath bought a large part of the Covey place after the civil war and his widow gave the ten acres for the Kildare school built in 1937. The Cains lived on part of the Covey lands in 1990. The house is now gone and the farm is part of a pine tree plantation.

Sources Howard W. Rosser, Jud and Ben Daniel, Ruby (Burns) Daniel