What was the profession of Sarah Moore's adoptive mother?
Sarah Moore (The Family) Sarah Moore, formerly known as Sarah Hamilton-Byrne (8 July 1969 – May 2016) was an Australian writer who spent her childhood in The Family, a new religious movement run by Anne Hamilton-Byrne, her adoptive mother. She was instrumental in getting the group investigated by the police in Victoria, Australia and later wrote a book about her experiences in The Family.
Mary E. Cobb Mary E. Cobb was born in May 1852 in Lynchburg, Virginia to Pleasant A. Cobb, a carpenter and Mary Wade. Cobb was a descendant of Ambrose Cobbs, the founder of a prominent and politically powerful southern dynasty who came from England as early as 1635. After the Civil War Cobb moved to New York City with her mother and two brothers. It was in New York in 1874 that she met and married Dr. Joseph Parker Pray, a New England podiatrist who made a fortune purveying foot powders and ladies cosmetics.