Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Moore, Curtis June 21, 1929
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Lineville Headlight
At sunrise on Friday, June 21st, the children of Curtis Moore found him dead, 
lying face up on the ground, in a pool of blood in the lot behind his home with 
a 410 gauge shotgun between his legs and a powder burned hole in the center of 
his forehead. , Mr. Moore, a young man with wife and three children, had been 
drinking and his wife said at the Coroner's Inquest later in the morning that 
between one and two o'clock in the night, Curtis came into the room, where she 
and the children were sleeping, in that nervous condition that a drunk man 
experiences when he is sobering up and talked with her until nearly three. As he 
left the room, he kissed them all goodnight fondly and tenderly, more so than 
usual. Little did the loving wife dream that it was an eternal farewell, He pass 
ed through the dining room, where his shotgun lent against the wall on his way 
to his own bedroom. Nothing more was heard from him until his corpse was found 
with the feet spread out toward the house. In that brief time, one might imagine 
what took place. He evidently sat down in the lot facing the home wherein his 
loved ones were sleeping, and, in the despair of life placed the muzzle of his 
shot gun to. his forehead and pulled the trig ger. His limp, body fell back on 
the pound and the barrel of his gun in the victory of death stretched itself out 
on top of him. Thus ended a life. Life and love struggled in the lot that might, 
just before dawn, with drink and despair and the drink and despair won out.

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