1906 Julia born 21 Jan 1905

  
1909 Moore Sisters:  Julia and Bess 

 
Julia ca 1911  

Julia went to High School at Mars Hill with her cousins
Standing in front of the boarding home across the street.
front: Julia Moore, Mary Belch, unknown, Hazel Sessoms, teacher (faded)
back: James Rayner, Alice Rayner (Dilday), unknown, unknown, John Rayner.

 
1905 Mars Hill School ca. 1924 
Notice the well at the front left corner of the building as well as the Model T Fords in the yard
photo compliments of Clyde Miller and Lynn McCarthy

 
The Mars Hill School Boarding House & Teacherage ca. 1924
photo compliments of Clyde Miller and Lynn McCarthy

Aunt Julia and Cousin Alice told us about the living arrangements there.
The girls slept on the second floor; the boys were on the first floor. It seems that the girls kept their chamber pot in a closet above where the boys hung their coats -- so to liven things up a little they would make a crash upstairs and yell "Look out below! Dirty water!" just to get the boys to scramble to get their things out of the closet.

Alice Rayner and Julia Moore sitting of Raynor Moore's car at Mars Hill

 
ca 1919 at Maple Lawn

 
 Julia's graduation picture
 from Norfolk General's nursing school

1929: Cotten, Raynor, Jim holding John, Julia holding Julia

   
 Bess, Aunt Nell & Julia 1955 

1959  5 Generations (not direct line of course) Mary Ann McMillan Wilber top left, her great Aunt Julia W Moore, her aunt Betty Pierce Hickey, seated is her great, great Aunt Nell Rayner Myers and Ronnie or Donnie (no one is certain which) Wilber.  Day of Bess Pierce's funeral.