Eliza Moore

Eliza Moore (June 27, 1843 – January 21, 1948) was one of the last living African Americans proven to have been born into slavery in the United States.

During the American Civil War, Moore was known to be enslaved by Dr. Taylor, according to B. E. Bolser, of Mt.

She married Asbury Moore, who was also a enslaved, and they went to the Gilchrist Place in Cordova, Alabama, together as sharecroppers after the war.

[1] It is reported that Eliza Moore had been living on the Gilchrist Place for about 65 or 70 years as a free woman at the time of her death in 1948.

Eliza Moore died at the age of 104 on January 21, 1948, at a home of a Charlie Brown Jr. on the Gilchrist Place in Montgomery County.