3. Mitchell Joel Moore (George Wright , George Wright ) was born on 21 Mar 1854 in , Barbour Co., Ala., Usa. He was christened in To la. at 9 Mo. SEE NOTES. He died on 21 Feb 1950. He was buried in Feb 1950 in Spring Hill Cem., Bienville Par, Ringgold, La..
Story of M. J. Moore (written by him)
He was born Barbour County, Alabama 3-21-1854, at 9 months old came to La. in December. Weather was cold, country was thinly settled and the woods were full of game. They fed him on wild meat and he got hard to tame. But as time passed along they bought him brass toed shoes. He went to school a little and learned to read the news. But when the Civil War ended and his father came home he was taught to plow and his education was doomed. So he hit the world ruff and tumble but tried to shun the crooks because his father taught him that honesty was the best lesson in books. So as time kept passing on he decided to get married although he was very poor but he married a good Christian woman that tried to do her part. They learned to work and save and made money from the start. His children kept increasing until they numbered 13 and they began to meet reverses they never had forseen. They decided to leave the country and move into town. They had all kinds of propositions that schemers ever found. They put $2000 in a Star Merchantile store. It went into liquidation and never was seen no more. Then he decided to sell singer sewing machines to make a little stake and to learn to be succussful he must stay wide awake. He went traveling over the country, viewing the scenes, the main part of his business was selling singer machines. You would always find him up and about free from gout neither fat nor thin but they better look out along his route or he will sell them that sewing machine. So he got to making money and he got to feeling funny and he did not stay so poor. He rode a singer hack put his money in a sack and became the honorable M. J. Moore.
Mitchell Joel sold Singer Sewing Machines.Letters written by Mitchel Joel Moore to Fannie (Moore) Norris
Castor La. March 23 - 31 (1931)
Sister Fannie Norris and Family especially that little sassy Evia Jewel
I will say we are all well now so far as I know and I was glad to hear from you all but tell Jewel she is too little to spank me & if them widows and old maids want to hav a spanking I may try to come out there. I am to go down to Noble La. In a few days to see one of my old sweet harts of 1878. The girl I almost loved as good as I did the one I married in that year and she has bin married 4 times & if she thinksshe is too old to get married again. She has a daughter about 50 so why not marry the girl & all live together. The old lady draws a pension on her last man of $60.00 per month and what I get out of the machine business we can get by & I think we could hav a hel of a good time for a while. I have got several letters from her & they sound good to me. I written her a valentine & she answered it. I wil repeat it to you on a separate sheet.
I wrote to her this
Hearts may break and vows be wasted
Toungs may lure with lying breath
But still the love that youth has tasted
Lingers sweetly until deathSo she comes back with this
As sure as the rat runs up the rafter
You are the boy that I am afterWel the train past before I could mail this to day but it wil leave tomorrow.
M. J. MooreCastor La. April 9th 31
Mrs Fannie Norris & all the Family. I written a letter to you on March 23rd in answer to the one I got from Jewel & to day I got it back as it was not delivered to you so I wil remail it with this. We are all doing verry well now. I do a little work on sewing machines but I cannot collect anything so I am down with the blue blues & don’t care much which way the wind blows. Wel I hope to see you all some day so I close
Your old Brother M. J. Moore
Castor La. March 9th 1941
To Mrs Fannie Norris & Family - Kermit Texas
Well Fannie I received your letter several days ago but it has bin raining & awful cold until this Sunday morning. It is fair & sunshine & I am feeling fine. Fannie I guess you remember Blanchard was shot by a Negro but he shot the Negro as he fell & the Negro died that knight & Blanchard lived for me to tell him the Negro was dead. He was the 2nd Marsal to be killed in Ringgold. Elmo Brickner was first & one since - a Mr. Pilgrum.
I was marsal there 2 years before we moved to Castor but this is a very small town. While Fannie is running a hotel & I hav a verry nice little house to my self & a good heater & plenty wood & pine brought in when the weather is bad & a colered boy to make a fire in the cold weather so I ought to live a long time.
Wel you speak of a Mr. Tom Moore & ask about our Father & his Father. Wel if I remember rite our Father was born in Georga & his Mother died when he was a baby & he had several sisters & only one brother. His name was Joel Watson Moore & I got my name from him & uncle Mitch Giddens. Our Father’s name was George Wright Moore & it seams that that was his Father’s name & he posably came from Carolina but came to Georga & married a verry high tempered woman known by the children as Aunt Polly & when our Father was about 16 she come on him with a yard broomAnd when he saw her coming he got his singletree down & she slam down with it & he knocked her down & ran off to Alabamma & at the age of 21 he & Mother got married in Barber county where I was born & say I wil send you some of my poetry that I written which shows a few ups & downs of my life. Wel Fannie, I hav a lot of grand kids in Texas. Mittie has one daughter aina has 8 children she married a man name Denton down in Scurry county and one the call Piewie. I don’t remember her husbans name & they have too boys Shade & Milton McGinty and I do not know where they are. Wel I wil close this letter & write when I see some of the children that can tell me.
So when you get this you write to me and I wil be glad to hear from you all. Tell Henry he ought not went to a doctor & he could have saved a barber bill. I am going to spend 25 cts. This morning to get my hair cut.
Wel I started this letter several days ago but wil close & mail it to day.
I remain the same old Brother - M. J. Moore
Mitchell married Rebecca Mariah "Lucy Louie" Hall daughter of Isaac Hall and Mary Flo Allums on 17 Oct 1878 in , Bienville Par, La., Usa. Rebecca was born on 16 Jan 1862. She died on 27 Mar 1913 in Ringgold, Bienville Par, La., Usa. She was buried in 1913 in Spring Hill Cem., Bienville Par, Ringgold, La..
They had the following children:
12 M i Charley Robertus Moore was born on 17 Dec 1879 in Ringgold, Bienville Parish, La.. He died in 1960. He was buried in Springhill Cemetery, Bienville Parish, La.. Charley married Kate Regan on 28 Nov 1901. 13 F ii Mittie Lou Moore was born on 18 Sep 1882 in Ringgold, Bienville Parish, La.. Mittie married A. L. McGinty on 5 Jan 1902. 14 M iii George Hall Moore was born on 16 Feb 1884 in Ringgold, Bienville Parish, La.. George married Ollie Regan on 9 Jun 1906. 15 M iv Dempsey Howard Moore was born on 31 Mar 1885 in Ringgold, Bienville Parish, La.. He died on 12 Dec 1917 in Bienville Parish, La.. Dempsey married Harriet Elizabeth Watts daughter of Living and Living on 3 Feb 1905. 16 M v N. C. Blanchard Moore was born on 11 Jun 1887 in Ringgold, Bienville Parish, La.. N. C. Blanchard Moore married Ora Lacy on 17 Nov 1906. 17 F vi Fannie Irene Moore was born on 23 Feb 1889 in Ringgold, Bienville Parish, La.. Fannie married Will Huckaby on 14 Dec 1906. + 18 F vii May Jane Moore 19 F viii Annie Ola Moore was born on 9 May 1892 in Ringgold, Bienville Parish, La.. Annie married Living. 20 F ix Junie Moore was born on 22 Jun 1893 in Ringgold, Bienville Parish, La.. Junie married Jim Huckaby on 6 Jul 1910. 21 F x Emma Jewel Moore was born on 9 Mar 1897 in Ringgold, Bienville Parish, La.. She died about 1902 in Ringgold, Bienville Parish, La. 22 F xi Living Living married Living. 23 F xii Living Living married Living. 24 F xiii Mertis O. D. Moore was born on 28 Jun 1904 in Ringgold, Bienville Parish, La.. She was buried in 1986 in Springhill Cemetery, Bienville Parish, La.. Mertis married Living.