Location
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Coordinates: 35.5496, -82.6368.
Type: Stop
Tour: Cherokee
County: Buncombe
Partial
As you near the coordinates, look for a fenced area apparently dead ahead. It is actually on the right as the road curves left across the street from 63 Captain’s Drive. Park by the fence.
The grave is barely visible from the street, but a close-up view might be difficult for people with mobility issues. The homesite visited later is fully visible from your vehicle. People with larger vehicles may have trouble parking or returning to the road there, however.
Moore’s Grave
Walk through the gate and go to the inner fenced area. A marker for William Moore is on the left. His grave is behind it, next to the left-side fence.
Sent to America from Ireland at age 13 or 15 with eight brothers by their widowed mother, William Moore lived in North Carolina by 1776. He first lived in today’s Dysartsville southwest of Marion, 55 miles east by modern roads and near the site of the 1781