Obit of Moore, Bob - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 20 Nov 2011 Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::NOT LISTED Surnames: Moore, Williams, East, Ireland Originally posted at: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oklahoma.counties.rogermills/9675/mb.ashx *Last Sunday on Oak Creek several miles south of Cloud Chiel, Jeff Williams shot and perhaps killed George East and killed Bob Moore in his tracks. What led to the shooting no one seems to know. {Much more written in speculation and factors in the January 12, 1895 Cheyenne Sunbeam} Bob Moore is originally from Honery Grove in Fannin County, Texas and has a brother, William Moore, yet there. Since the opening of Washita County to settlement, Bob Moore has served out there both as deputy sheriff and Deputy U.S. Marshall. We don't know whether he was holding title of these offices or not at the time of his death. The corner's jury acquitted Williams. Bob Moore, who was killed by Jeff Williams in the Washita county was noted all over the western country for desperate and daring deeds. One of the most noted was his "holding up" Governor Ireland, of Texas, and making him sign his pardon. It seems Moore had been a member of the Texas Rangers and as such had done excellent work against Indians and desperadoes along the border. One day he got drunk and began "shooting up" a town in western Texas and in the course of his jamboree, killed three Mexicans. When the sheriff went to arrest him for this killing, a battle ensued between him and Moore, in which the sheriff was killed. Rewards aggregating $10,000 were offered for his capture and he became a fugitive from justice. He was so popular that steps were at once taken to secure a pardon, and petitions were circulated and numerously signed, every Texas Ranger in the state putting his name to it. In the petition Moore's good work as a ranger was set forth and it was claimed he was acting in self-defense when he shot the Mexicans and did not know the sheriff was an officer when he fought with him. Governor Ireland refused to sign the pardon, so one day Moore, accompanied by a friend as desperate as himself, called on his Excellency at his office in Austin. Going into the room, he said: "Are you Governor Ireland? "I am," answered the governor. "What can I do for you?" "I am Bob Moore, for whom you and others have ordered $10,000 reward, and for whose pardon you have been petitioned. I want that pardon". The governor was paralyzed for a moment, but recovering himsel, said: "You cannot have it. I have considered the case fully and believe you guilty." "Well," said Moore, pulling a gun from his boot, "I am desperate and I might just as well die here as anywhere. There's the pardon," throwing down the paper before him. "Sign it"---and with that he shoved and Moore left. Afterwards Moore's friends went to the governor and fixed the matter up, and the pardon was not evoked. Moore was a large man physically and when not in his cups was genial and whole-souled---but became a devil when drinking. Oklahoman This article and more appeared in the January 7 and January 12, 1895 Cheyenne Sunbeam. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html