Oliver Leroy Moffatt^[1]

1877 - about 1958  (81 years)

• Associated names	Moffatt , Moffat , Moffat ( Moffet) , Moffat or Moffet , Moffeit , Moffet , Moffett , Moffit , Moffitt
  Gender	Male
  Birth	17 March 1877	Peoria, Peoria Co., Illinois, USA   [2]
  	"I remember it because of St. Patrick's Day" - William Christian Moffatt, 26 Dec 1992, Neosho, MO.
  Death	about July 1958	Peoria, Peoria Co., Illinois, USA   [2]
  Burial	about July 1958	Peoria, Peoria Co., Illinois, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I58319	Clan Moffat Genealogy

  
  

  Father	Thomas Franklin Moffatt,   b. December 1835, Illinois, USA d. after 1900 (Age ~ 66 years)
  Mother	Francis “Fannie” Amelm Lufton,   b. April 1843, Ohio, USA d. after 1900 (Age ~ 58 years)
  Marriage	15 May 1861	Peoria Co., Illinois, USA   [3]
  Family ID	F40724	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family/Spouse	Bertha Virch,   b. 7 December 1873, Peoria, Peoria Co., Illinois, USA d. about December 1945, Peoria, Peoria Co., Illinois, USA (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	about 1901	Peoria, Peoria Co., Illinois, USA   [1]
  Children	+ 1. William Christian Moffatt,   b. 21 October 1912, Peoria, Peoria Co., Illinois, USA
  Family ID	F40723	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 April 2002

  
  

• Notes

  Grandson Robert William Moffatt remembers "Grandpa Oliver had a wooden leg with a hinge that he never oiled. You could hear him coming for miles." - "Interview with R.W.Moffatt," June 1992, , Germany. Oliver lost his leg in 1929 when a drunken driver hit a wheel barrow he was using for coal deliveries pinning his leg between the barrow and the steel wheeled coal wagon. He probably never felt a thing since he usually nipped at grandma Birtha's homemade beer. He preferred to tell the grandchildren that a beer wagon ran over him. Oliver worked: Not accepted for WWI service because he was too old, he worked in Peoria until 1927; 1927-1929 Forest Park, IL unloading coal cars & delivering coal. 1929-1943 unemployed & kids took care of the family. 1943-1945 ground lenses in a binocular factory. Spent 1-2 years in jail for assault & battery around 1909-1911. Born on St. Patrick's day, (Son William Christian says "that's a good day for an Irishman to be born"), Oliver died in Peoria, IL of a blood clot in the heart. He is buried in Peoria, IL. - "Interview with William Christian and Robert William Moffatt," James Anthony Moffatt, interviewer, 26 Dec 1992, Neosho, MO.

  
  

• Sources

  [S287] from Tony Moffatt, Clan Moffat Society Member #1421, GEDCOM file JamesBMoffatt.ged. [S283] . [S504] eMail message from Tom Moffatt, titled new info your great grandfather Oliver Leroy Moffatt's dad Thomas Moffatt.