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1900 OR CENSUS Gordon C. Moors (b Feb 1885, Oregon) enumerated with parents Chares B. (b Aug 1849, Missouri, married 19y, register US Land Office) and Sarah E. (b Oct 1853, Michigan, mother of 4 children) and 3 siblings, Gertrude E. (b Dec 1882, Oregon), Merril B. (b Feb 1884, Oregon), and Chester A. (b Feb 1889, Oregon)
1910 OR CENSUS Gordon C. Moores (25y, b Oregon) enumerated with parents Charles B. (60y, b Missouri, married 28y) and Sarah E. (56y, b Michigan, mother of 4 children) and 2 brothers, Merrill B. (26y, b Oregon, manager of auto garage) and Charles A. (21y, b Oregon)
MARRIAGE Gordon C. Moores (26y 16d, of Portland, b Salem, Oregon, laborer) and Jessie L. Hurley (23y 8m 14d, of Salem, b Portland, Oregon) md 23 Feb 1911, Salem, Marion Co, Oregon
WWI Draft Registration Card Gordon Chamberlain Moores, 33, of Kennewick, Benton Co, Washington; b 7 Feb 1885; fatmer; nearest relative Jessie Moores, Kennewick
1920 WA CENSUS Gordon Moore (34y, b Oregon, farmer) enumerated with wife Jessie H. (31y, b Oregon) and son William M. (age unknown, b Washington); also with family were 2 employees and their families
NOTE son William Middleton Moores was born 2 Aug 1915 at Wallula, Washington [WWII draft registration card]. He and Jessie were living with Jessie’s widowed mother Mary F. Hurley at Portland, Oregon in 1930 census. Jessie was listed as widowed, which suggests she and Gordon had separated or divorced. Jessie died 16 Jan 1984 in Multnomah co, Oregon [ODI] and was buried in Riverview Cemetery
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