Gonzales County Texas Archives Obituaries.....Moore, Melissia A. C. January 14, 1912
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Gonzales Weekly Inquier, Jan. 28, 1912
Mrs. M.A.C. Moore died Sunday afternoon, January 14, at her home in Dreyer.  
Mrs. M.A.C. Moore's age was 74 years.  Mrs. Moore had been in bad health for 
some time and her death was due to paralysis.  She was the widow of Mr. A.J. 
Moore, familiarly known as Mr. Andy Moore, one of Gonzales' oldest citizens 
who at one time lived in this city out on the old Tinsley homestead on East 
Avenue, just beyond the County Clerk Patterson's residence.  The house, which 
was torn down some years ago, was one of Gonzales' oldest landmarks, Gen. Sam 
Houston frequently stopping there on his visits to Gonzales.

Mrs. Moore was a daughter of a prosperous planter of the early days and was 
raised near Hochheim.  Besides two brothers, Mr. John Boothe of Yoakum and Mr. 
Russell Boothe of Austin, she leaves nine grandchildren, the children of her 
son Mr. R.I. Moore, deceased.  Mrs. Moore left a considerable estate valued at 
about $35,000 with her daughter-in-law, by the terms of the will, being made 
sole executrix without bond, to have charge of the property until the youngest 
grandchild becomes of age.  In the passing of Mrs. Moore, Gonzales Couny loses 
another one of her old time residents.


Additional Comments:
Melissa Ann Catherine Boothe, daughter of William S. and Lucy Parham Boothe,  
was born 4 Nov. 1839 in Elbert Co., Georgia and came to Texas with her parents 
and brothers in the early 1850's.  She married Andrew J. Moore in Gonzales 
County on 27 Sept. 1865.  Their only child, Robert Issac Moore, was born 26 
Nov. 1866 in Gonzales Co. and died 21 Apr. 1909 in Dreyer, Gonzales Co., 
Texas.  Melissia, her son Robert, and most of her nine grandchildren are 
buried at the cemetery in Hochheim, DeWitt Co., Texas.  

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