Cherokee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Moore, P. T.  January 26, 1886
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The Cherokee Advance  29 Jan 1886 p 3
Killed by a Horse

Quite a sad and fatal accident happened on Monday morning last to Mr. P. T. 
Moore, who had been living with the family of Mr. H.  S. Tolbert, at this 
place, for some time.  On that morning the horse of Mr. Tolbert got out of the 
stable, and Mr. Moore went out to put him up.  He remained longer than Mrs. 
Tolbert thought necessary, and becoming alarmed she went to the stable and 
there found him sitting down.  She called to him, but received no reply; she 
then went nearer, when the blood sprinkled upon the ground and his shirt front 
told her plainly that he was badly hurt.  She called assistance and carried him 
into the house.  An examination showed that the horse had bit him on the right 
side of the neck, leaving the imprint of where his teeth had scraped the skin 
off and crunched through and deeper into his neck, severing the windpipe and 
leaving a terrible wound.  His right arm also showed signs of being bitten, his 
breast was bruised and his back muddied, indicating he had been knocked down by 
the horse. Dr. Coleman dressed the wound, but for some time afterward whenever 
Mr. Moore would get his breath the blood would gurgle out and stream down his 
breast.  The pain he suffered must have been terrible, and the more intense 
because he could not speak so as to tell what relief was needed, except by the 
motion of his hand in answer to questions.  Mr. Moore lived until Tuesday noon 
when his breath left him and life was ended in an easy quiet manner, as though 
a flickering light had been extinguished, and his soul passed into the great 
beyond. 
The horse which bit him was bought only a few days ago from Scott, Keith & 
Bro., who got him from Geo. W. Evans.  He is a large horse, blind in one eye 
and very vicious, especially so when approached on the "blind side," and will 
spring at any one with his fore feet, and mouth wide open, before he is 
suspected.  Mr. Moore, being unable to speak, could tell no one how it 
happened; but it is supposed he went up on the blind side of the horse and the 
animal sprang upon and bit him before he could get away.  The horse was taken 
out of the stable a short while afterwards and ridden to Orange, and appeared 
gentle enough. 
Mr. Moore is an old gentleman, about 81 years old, but tolerably stout and 
resolute to his age.  He could not be induced to lay down until some time after 
he was hurt. 
He has been married twice.  His second and present wife is a sister of Mrs. 
Tolbert, of this place, and Jno. T. Beavers, of Fort Buffington.  Mrs. Anthony 
Fair, at Orange, is a niece of his. He has two sons--Dr. George Moore, who 
married a sister of Rev. W. W. Hawkins, living in Texas, and Major Moore, 
residing in Arkansas. Mr. Moore is a good christian gentleman, and the news of 
this sad accident and his untimely death falls heavily upon his many friends.  
We deeply sympathise (sic) with the bereaved. 


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