The Wells and Moore families emigrated from Ireland to Bennington, Vermont, and worked in the mills and pottery businesses there. Edward Wells (died sometime between 1854 and 1859) and his wife Catherine Reilly (d.1875) had three children: William H., John R., and Sarah Ellen. Edward worked in a powder mill. William worked in potteries in Bennington, South Carolina, and Geddes, New York, where he married a woman named Augusta and had several children. He died in1877. John Wells worked as a printer and may have died around 1866.
In 1853, Sarah Ellen Wells married Henry W. (Harry) Moore, who had also emigrated from Ireland. Henry was a tailor, but spent some time in the pottery business as well. Sarah Ellen and Henry had three children who lived to adulthood: Edward Hamilton (1854-1908), Nellie M. (1857-1946), and John Henry (b.1864). Edward Moore worked for the Norton pottery in Bennington and later became a traveling salesman. In 1887, he married a woman named Ella (whose last name might have been Sipperly). Nellie never married; she worked in mills in Bennington and as a dressmaker. John Moore moved around, working for the railroad in New York and New Jersey and spending time in Omaha, Nebraska. He then became a traveling salesman for the Norton Pottery Co. of Bennington.
From the description of Papers, 1841-1900. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 261234623
