Lureston P. Moore was born around 1850 in Ohio to William Moore and Mary Elizabeth Hall. His father was a master blacksmith who owned $3,000 of real estate and $500 of personal property in 1860. Moore grew up and attended school in Barnesville, Ohio, and by 1870, he was working as a blacksmith. He married Catherine Smith in the early 1870s, and they had at least three children: William, born around 1873; Mary, born around 1875; and Gary, born around 1879. He died sometime after 1880.