MooreGreensboro Daily News
Relative of Daniel Boone
remembered for service
If anybody ever looked the part of a
grizzled frontier scout, it was Ivey Moore of
North Wilkesboro. With his lean, craggy face,
his buckskin suit, coonskin cap and flintlock
rifle, he could have been mistaken for Daniel
Boone himself.
Indeed, people called him Daniel Boone,
and not without good reason. He was a direct
descendant of Boone and he did his best to live
up to family traditions.
Back in the '50s, he organized the Daniel
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Boone Wagon Train, an annual trek by
horseback and wagon from North Wilkesboro to
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enjoyed by thousands. In 1976, at age
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79, he hiked the trail that Boone cut through
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the wilderness from Wilkes County to
Boonesboro, Ky.
Honored by Congress
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same year, he was honored by the
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U.S. Congress for his long service to Boy
Scouting, his country and community. He
showed up to receive the award in his frontier
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outfit and a special resolution was passed
him
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allowing to carry his long rifle into the
Congress, making him the first person ever
allowed to bring it firearm into the hull.
Ivey, who once operated a furniture
company in Ronda, was also the first president
of the North Carolina Wildlife Club and served
in top positions in many other civic
organizations, including numerous jobs in nearly
half a century of service to Scouting.
On the day after Ivey died at age 82 on
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Jan. 18, his grandson, Dudley Moore Jr., a .
furniture designer in High Point, wrote me a
letter
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about his grandfather, who was known by
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many people in this area.
"Ivey lived as full a life as anyone I have
ever known," he wrote. "The man left a mark
and gained a bit of immortality. Somehow that
makes losing him a little easier to bear."
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