Another Mary....

[LincolnMan]

(01-28-2017 11:43 AM)L Verge Wrote:  

(01-28-2017 07:25 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Has anyone toured the Lewis T. Moore house in Virginia?

About twenty years ago, the Surratt Society sponsored a bus trip to the Valley region and Winchester. We visited the museum at that time - nothing pretentious, but filled with Jackson history (which I loved because of my admiration for the General).

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Just found this online. Evidently Ms. Moore assisted in another family- and CW-related museum project:

In honor of her father, George Tyler Moore, a lifelong American Civil War enthusiast, in 1995 Moore donated funds to acquire a historic structure in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, for Shepherd College (now Shepherd University) to be used as a center for Civil War studies. The center, named the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War is housed in the historic Conrad Shindler House (c. 1795), which is named in honor of her great-great-great-grandfather, who owned the structure from 1815–52.[47] Moore also contributed to the renovation of the house used as headquarters during 1861–1862 by Confederate Major General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. Use of the house had been offered to Jackson by its owner, Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Tilghman Moore, commander of the 4th Virginia Infantry and a great-grandfather of Mary Tyler Moore.[6][48]

How wonderful!