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Moch, Louis Morgan
1859 - 1910 (51 years)-
Name Moch, Louis Morgan Birth 26 May 1859 Louisiana 
Gender Male Death 22 Aug 1910 Louisiana Person ID I1038 My Genealogy | Williams Branch Last Modified 1 Nov 2019
Mother Wilson, Sarah, b. Alabama Family ID F344 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Moch, Relvia Cole, b. 15 Mar 1863 d. 8 Aug 1945 (Age 82 years) Marriage 10 Nov 1880 Spring Ridge, Caddo Parish, LA Children 1. Sherouse, Etta Moch, b. 26 Dec 1879, Spring Ridge, Caddo Parish, Louisiana d. 10 Jan 1932, Keithville, LA (Age 52 years)2. Sherouse, Nettie, b. 1880 + 3. Williams, Rachel Moch, b. 24 Oct 1881, Spring Ridge, Caddo Parish, Louisiana d. 15 Oct 1968, Shreveport, LA (Age 86 years)+ 4. Moch, Louis Henry, b. 16 Mar 1883, Louisiana d. 5 May 1957 (Age 74 years)5. Moch, Earnest, b. 14 Jan 1885 d. 24 Jul 1886 (Age 1 year) 6. Moch, Benjamin, b. 1 Mar 1886 d. 1 Apr 1888 (Age 2 years) 7. Sibley, Elizabeth Moch, b. 21 Nov 1887, Louisiana d. 26 Apr 1973 (Age 85 years)8. Moch, Addison James, b. 23 Aug 1889 d. 16 May 1975, Shreveport, LA (Age 85 years)9. Moch, William Murray Sr., b. Oct 1891, Louisiana d. Mar 1972, Keithville, LA (Age 80 years)10. Moch, Lela, b. Sep 1893, Louisiana d. 27 Jan 1989 (Age 95 years)11. Moch, Clara B., b. 9 Mar 1896, Louisiana d. 27 Jul 1934 (Age 38 years)12. Moch, LM, b. Aug 1897 13. Moch, Norman, b. 20 Nov 1899, Louisiana d. 14 Aug 1984, Los Angeles, CA (Age 84 years)14. Moch, Carrie, b. 24 Nov 1903 d. 21 Oct 1921 (Age 17 years) 15. Moch, Jessie, b. 10 Dec 1907 d. Sep 2001 (Age 93 years) + 16. Moch, Ardis, b. 30 Dec 1908, Louisiana d. 23 Mar 1978, Longview, TX (Age 69 years)Family ID F337 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Nov 2019
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Documents 
Magnificent Mochs.pdf The Moch Name and Interesting Facts (1).pdf LM-Moch-Family-History.pdf
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Notes - Inscription on tombstone reads "8th of Silver Moon No. 87 F. & A.M." This means that LM Moch was an 8th Degree Mason of the Silver Moon No. 87 of the Free and Amended Masons. Silver is associated with the moon in Masonic tradition and in Vermont there were a number of "Silver Moon" lodges that used that term to meet on nights when there was a full moon to facilitate easy travel to the meetings at night. To have such a inscription on his memorial indicated that he was proud of his fraternal position in the order. No. 87 is confirmed to have been in Keithville, LA.
- It appears that Louis Morgan did not have a close relationship to his father or mother and had a complicated childhood being a child during the Civil War in the Deep South. I can find no record of any other Moch's in Caddo Parish, except for Marx Moch, a local merchant. However, Marx did not arrive in America until 1860.
He seems to have two half-siblings, Gill and Mary Wilson who are older than Louis and were born in Alabama as was his mother. Louis was born in Louisiana however and we don't know how his mother and half-siblings got to Louisiana.
In the 1870 Census, Louis appears to be living with his half-brother Gill. Mary seems to have married Peter Connor. Peter and Mary Connor had a son, Ananias, who was boarding with Louis according to the 1900 census. Ananias would be Louis' nephew.
- Inscription on tombstone reads "8th of Silver Moon No. 87 F. & A.M." This means that LM Moch was an 8th Degree Mason of the Silver Moon No. 87 of the Free and Amended Masons. Silver is associated with the moon in Masonic tradition and in Vermont there were a number of "Silver Moon" lodges that used that term to meet on nights when there was a full moon to facilitate easy travel to the meetings at night. To have such a inscription on his memorial indicated that he was proud of his fraternal position in the order. No. 87 is confirmed to have been in Keithville, LA.