Newton County GaArchives Obituaries.....John S.  Moore March 1909
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The Covington News, March 31, 1909

DR. JOHN S. MOORE PASSES AWAY
Was One of The Best Known Ministers in The County. Leaves a Host of Friends
  Dr. J. S. Moore, one of the best known and most highly esteemed citizens
of the county, died at his home in Oxford, Sunday afternoon, aged eighty
years.
  Dr. Moore was for twenty years a member of the faculty of Emory College, 
holding the chair of Latin and during that period was considered the best man 
in the entire faculty. During this time he has lived in Oxford and has preached
at every church and crossroads in Newton county and was known and loved
by almost every man, woman and child anywhere in this section. Besides being
a most consecrated Christian, he was a man possessing all those conscientious
principals which are essential to the making of a strong character and a good
citizen. He was a polished gentleman and was truly a scholar of the old
school, imbued with all the chivalry and courteous traits of the true
Southern gentleman.
  That his familiar figure will be missed by the people of Covington and 
Oxford is useless to say. Without his helpful influence the community
will feel his loss for a long time and his memory will be a source of 
comfort to those who knew him and his example will be the guiding star
of more than one man's character. His influence was always used for those
things best and for the happiness and contentment of his fellowman.
  His death has brought the bitter cup of sorrow to the lips of friends
and relatives. His was a heart of gold. He was one of nature's noblemen
in its truest sense, brave, generous, manly. He was the real soul of 
honor,and his friends and friendships were sacred to him.
  He leaves a wife, three sons, Messrs. William, Robert and Porter Moore,
of Birmingham, Ala., and three daughters, Mrs. Frank Evans, of Elberton;
Mrs. B. C. Jarrell, of Rome,and Miss Alice Moore, of Virginia, to mourn
his death, besides the entire friendship of the community, who will miss
him and feel their loss in his death.
  The funeral services were held at the Methodist Church at Oxford Monday
afternoon, conducted by Dr. C. E. Dowman and Rev. W. H. LaPrade, after
which the remains were tenderly laid to rest in the cemetery at that place.

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