Introduction
CHARLES W. MOORE was born around 1874 in North Carolina. He moved to Camden with wife Patsy and daughter Helen after her birth in 1900. Two other daughters, one named Adelia, and three sons followed, Charles, and twins Theophilus and Henry.
By 1910 Charles Moore had established a demolition business in Camden at 829 Kaighn Avenue. By the time of the 1920 census, he had purchased a home at 822 Kaighn Avenue, across the street from the business at 829 Kaighn, where he sold second-hand building materials, gleaned from the buildings he had demolished. By 1930 he had moved to a home on the White Horse Pike at Davis Road in Lawnside NJ.
Charles W. Moore was involved in many civic organizations in Camden. A founder of the South Camden Branch of the YMCA, the group had by 1947 located in his former home at 822 Kaighn Avenue. Charles Moore was also a member of the Kaighn Avenue Baptist Church, the NAACP, the National Negro Business League, and was a life-member of the Oriental Lodge #1, Free and Accepted Masons in Camden.
Charles W. Moore died on January 13, 1950 after a short illness. He was buried on January 18 at Mount Peace cemetery in Lawnside. His sons continued to conduct the family business as late as the fall of 1955.
605 Kaighn Avenue
1914
605 Kaighn Avenue – 1914 – Horace Accoo – Camden Post-Telegram, December 11, 1914 – Charles Beal – Clarence Nixon – Charles Moore – Alfred Ringle – Thomas Lewis – Sixth Ward Republican Brotherhood Assn.
Stole to Buy Funeral Garb
Philadelphia Inquirer —
When Harry Cross, a negro, 22 years old, of 619 Sycamore street, was arraigned in Camden yesterday charged with stealing iron pipe from Charles W. Moore, he admitted his guilt and said he had been driven to that extremity because he wanted to get clothes in order that he might attend his sister’s funeral yesterday afternoon. Herbert Lamb, 20 years old, of 741 Baxter street, admitted he was with Cross to aid him. The Recorder permitted the two to go to attend the funeral on their promising to reappear this morning for a hearing.
Camden City Directory Advertisement
1926
C.W. Moore – 1926 Camden City Directory advertisement
Woman Killed, Truck Driver Had No License
Camden Courier-Post —
A 44 year-old South Camden woman was fatally injured at Eighth and Kaighn Avenue last night by a loaded brick truck driven by an unlicensed driver.
The woman was Mrs. Mollie Katz, of 1146 South Third Street. She died in West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital of a fractured skull.
The driver of the truck, Thelmer White, 32, colored, of 333 Chestnut Street, told police he was driving without a license but with the consent of his employer, Charles Moore, house-wrecking contractor, of 829 Kaighn Avenue.
White was held in $5000 bail on a technical charge of manslaughter, while Moore was arrested for allowing an unlicensed driver to operate his automobile, and held in $500 bail. Both will be given a hearing today.
According to White, Mrs. Katz stepped from the curb directly into the path of his truck and he could not avoid striking her.
The Second District Patrol, en route to Eighth and Sycamore Streets on another call, was directly back of the truck at the time of the accident and took the woman to the hospital.
C. W. Moore Rites Set for Wednesday
Camden Courier-Post —
Services for Charles W. Moore, 75, Camden businessman, will be held Wednesday at 1 p. m. in Kaighn Avenue Baptist Church, where friends may call Tuesday night. Burial will be in Mt. Peace cemetery, Lawnside.
Mr. Moore, of White Horse pike and Davis road, Lawnside, died Friday in Cooper hospital after a short illness.
Mr. Moore operated the C. W. Moore & Son house wrecking business at Eighth and Liberty streets. He was engaged in business in Camden county more than 40 years and was one of the founders of South Camden branch YMCA.
He was a member of Kaighn Avenue Baptist Church, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Negro Business League, which was organized by the late Booker T. Washington, a life-long friend, and a life-member of Oriental lodge 1, FAM, of Camden.
Surviving are his widow, Patsy, two daughters, Mrs. Helen Davis, postmaster of Lawnside, and Adelia, a teacher in Camden Fetters school, and a son, Theophilus, who was associated with his father in the house wrecking business.
808 Liberty Street
1955
Named: 808 Liberty Street, C.W. Moore & Sons, and 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages Ad.