McAllister, Mabel Blanche

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Class of 1921

Birth: 30 Apr 1902, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Death: 24 Feb 1982, Hickory, Catawba, North Carolina

Parents:
Robert Lee McAllister (1863-1911)
Martha Jane “Jennie” Misenheimer McAllister (1863-1954)

Siblings: 
Harvey J. McAllister (1886-1957)
Edward Lee McAllister (1889-1962)
Myra Nell McAllister (1894-1903)
Ben McAllister (1891-1960)
Everett McAllister (1897-1918)
Robert “Brown” McAllister (1906-1980)

Spouse: Walter Lee Moose (1898-1981)
Marriage: 9 Mar 1930, Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus County, North Carolina

Burial:
St. James Reformed Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA
Source: www.findagrave.com, # 22676330

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Greensboro Daily News (Greensboro, NC), March 16, 1930, p.25.

MABEL M’ALLISTER MARRIES LEE MOOSE
Wedding of Popular Couple Takes Place at Mt. Pleasant

Albemarle. March 15. – Miss Mabel McAllister became the bride of Lee Moose in a beautiful and impressive ceremony at Holy Trinity Lutheran church in Mt. Pleasant at noon Sunday.

Wedding music was played by Miss Bess Heilig. Prior to the ceremony Mrs. John W. Link sang “All For You” and “O Perfect Love,” Harvey and Brown McAllister, brothers of the bride, were ushers.

Miss Ruth Cress was maid of honor. The bride entered with her mother, Mrs. R. L. McAllister, who gave her in marriage. They were met at the altar by the groom who was attended by his brother, Paul A. Moose.

The bride was radiantly lovely in a patron model of independence blue georgette with lace bodice, with blond shoes and gloves and a French hat of Bangkok straw in eggshell. Her white prayer book was showered in valley lilies. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. John W. Link, pastor of the bride. The wedding party left the altar to the strains of Mendelssohn’s wedding march.

Mr. and Mrs. Moose left immediately for Charleston, S. C., and other points on a wedding trip. They will return to this city to reside where Mr. Moose is a prominent and popular young druggist.

Mrs. Moose is the only daughter of Mrs. Jennie McAllister and the late Robert L. McAllister. She was educated at Mt. Amoena Seminary and the University of North Carolina. She has for several years been a teacher in the Mt. Pleasant graded school.

Mr. Moose is the third son of Mrs. Mollie Moose and the late A. W. Moose. He attended Mt. Pleasant Collegiate Institute and later received his A. B. degree at Catawba college. He received his Ph. G. from the University of Maryland. Since that time he has been living in Mooresville, Charlotte and Albemarle.

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Obituary
Daily Independent (Kannapolis, NC) February 25, 1982

Mrs. Moose
MT. PLEASANT – Mrs. Mabel Blanch McAllister Moose, 79, of 141 North Main Street, died Wednesday at Catawba Memorial Hospital.

Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday at St. James United Church of Christ, of which she was a member. The Rev. J. E. Neese will officiate and internment will follow in the church cemetery.

The body will remain at Gordon-Penninger Funeral Home until taken to the church at the funeral hour. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 until 8:30 p.m. today.

Mrs. Moose, a retired school teacher, was a native of Cabarrus County, the daughter of the late Robert Lee McAllister and Mrs. Martha Jane Misenheimer McAllister, and was a graduate of Mont Amoena Seminary. Her husband, W. Lee Moose, died Oct. 29, 1981.

She is survived by a number of nieces and nephews.

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Excerpt from Remembering Our Forefathers – Seeking God’s Guidance for the Future, address delivered at the 125th Anniversary Banquet celebrating the heritage of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Mt. Pleasant, North Carolina, April 16, 1994, by Michael C. D. McDonald. Courtesy of Robin McAllister and Holy Trinity Lutheran Church.

Northwest across the street was the house of Lee and Mabel Moose, surrounded by bird houses, feeders, and birdbaths, and full of fascinating books about birds and conversation about the ways of animals, birds, bugs, and flowers. There, too, the mysteriouse Cousing Brown [Brown McAllister] came, of consideralby greater urbanity than the other cousins, since he lived in the mighty town of Concord, nine miles away, where the railroad ran.

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Handwritten note from an unidentified author (possibly cousin Virginia McAllister Smith) designating hand-painted china pieces belonging to Mabel McAllister Moose, dated September-October 1982. From the Julia Ethelyn Crabtree McAllister collection. See below for transcription.

Am giving a piece of Mabel’s hand-painted china to each granddaughter and great-niece.
Told Cass on 9-4-82 I wanted Melissa to have a bread-butter size plate marked on back “M. Morse.”
September 8, 1982
Today – September 9, 1982 – Katrina, on request, selected hers: a breakfast-size plate of embossed border with a quail.
On Sept. 12th Ginger selected a salad-plate size, painted but not by Mabel, and of the same vintage and style as Nora Smith’s.
Bluebird – plates – and Scott chose the saucer painted by Mabel with the horse’s head.
About same time, I put into use in my Elm Hill kitchen, a saucer on which was painted an apple. Then, because I needed to clear my dining room table, I repacked the china into two marked cardboard boxes and stored them in the downstairs closet.
On Oct. 4th, I gave pieces for Melissa, Lorian, and Patricia Moose to their Grandmother Carolyn to take to them. Melissa’s bread n’ butter size had small pink flowers; Lorian’s bore a cardinal (Va.’s state bird, as well as N.C.’s); and Patricia’s a mallard — I think. All three painted by Mabel.