Uncle Tom's second wife was Kate Ward. They were married in the Episcopal Church at Covington, KY, which is just across the river from Cincinnati. I have no idea how he met her. They also settled in Richmond and had one son Godwin Ward Moore, who was called 'Ward". Uncle Tom came home one day and found Aunt Kate in a "compromising position" with Page McCarty, an infamous duelist. McCarty beat a retreat. Uncle Tom announced that Kate wasn't worth fighting over and threw her out of the house. Then he divorced her and he went off to work as an engineer in New York. 
  Cousin Margaret says Ward got sent to a reform school in New York where he was "beaten every night for the good of his soul" . He was eventually sent to Mulberry Grove to live with Uncle Will and his family. Uncle Felix told Margaret the reason Ward was at Mulberry Grove was that he was an incorrigible and Uncle Tom couldn't handle him without beating him to death.  James wonders if he had done something else and was in danger of being sent to prison was why Uncle Tom sent him to Mulberry Grove. Raynor Moore said that Aunt Annie and Ward did not get on at all.  While Julia Wheeler Moore was dying, Annie tried to get him to behave himself by saying "Ward, your grandmother's dying." He replied "I don't care. While she's a dying, I'll be a pissing." This remark coupled with the fact that he tried to get the younger Felix to take morphine with him left Cousin Margaret with the impression that he was a thoroughly bad character. However, she does think his death was not a deliberate suicide but an accidental overdose. I don't think Ward wanted to kill himself. He liked the effect of the morphine and took too much. Uncle Felix told me Ward tried to get him on it with descriptions of such wonderful feelings, etc..."  Ward started taking morphine. They found him passed out from it on one occasion.  Uncle Richard Weaver was called and saved Ward by walking him up and down the porch all night, slapping him, sticking pins in him and pumping him full of hot coffee. Margaret says "My mother knew Ward well and witnessed the way they saved him the first time he overdosed on morphine." The morphine was then locked in a box. Ward  chiseled into the box and took another overdose. By the time they found him, it was too late. He was buried in the cemetery at Mulberry Grove. James has the box he forced open to get the morphine. Uncle Tom had no other children besides Ward.

Thomas Longworth Moore

Thomas Longworth Moore: born in North Carolina.   Appointed [as a midshipman in the Naval Academy on September 30, 1857] from North Carolina.   Resigned as acting midshipman, United States Navy, April 19, 1861.   Acting midshipman, [Confederate States Navy] June 12, 1861.   Acting master, October 4, 1862.   Second lieutenant, January 7, 1864, to rank from April 29, 1863.   First lieutenant, Provisional [Confederate] Navy, June 2, 1864, to rank from January 6, 1864.   Served on C.S.R.S. United States, 1861.   Privateer schooner Dixie, 1861.   CSS Florida (Selma), 1862-1863.   Service abroad, 1863 - 1865. from REGISTER OF OFFICERS OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES NAVY, 1861 - 1865. & LIST OF OFFICERS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY AND OF THE MARINE CORPS, 1775 - 1900

William Edward Moore 11 Feb 1847 - 1920  |  his parents
      & ca 1873 Annie Goree Tait 1854 - 1913  |  her parents
of Mulberry Grove and Washington, DC

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   Annie and Will 
    

William Edward Moore 11 Feb 1847 - 1920
    married Wilcox Co AL Annie Goree Tait 18 April 1854  - 1913
         daughter of Felix Tait and Narcissa Goree of Wilcox Co AL

After his mother's death Uncle Will ca 1900 moved his family to Washington, D. C.  
     where he was a guard for the Smithsonian Institution.

 
Helen Moore Stevens with Doc at Maple Lawn.