Fayette Co. TX - John H. Moore
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John H. Moore - The LaGrange Journal chronicles the death of another old Texas
veteran who was once a terror to the savages on the frontier of Texas. Col.

Moore, aged 81 years, died at the residence of his son, J. H. Moore, Jr., in
Fayette County, on the 2nd day of December 1880.

Col. Moore was one of the early settlers of this portion of the state, and
was, we believe, the first man who located on the land on which the town of La
Grange now stands.

His name and his deeds form no small part of the early history of the
Republic. He was ever recognized as a bold and fearless leader, and was looked
up to by the early settlers as their chief and adviser in the hour of danger.

(The Standard, Dec. 24, 1880)