Williamson County, TX - Obits: Lewellyn "Uncle Lewis" Moore, 1913
December 5, 2004

Submitted by: marylove@tyler.net (Mary Love Berryman)
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Lewellyn "Uncle Lewis" Moore

Although he had lived almost four and a half score years, there was
gloom cast over the town and community yesterday morning when the sad
news went out that "Uncle Lewis Moore" - as he was familiarly known---
was dead.

He was among the very early settlers in this community, having settled
the place about two miles north of Florence in 1854 and living there
until his death. For 59 years he had lived at this place, where he
reared his family. Uncle Lewis was a native of Alabama; came to Texas
in 1849, and joined the Texas Rangers, with whom he served two years. 
He then returned to Alabama, where he married and returned to Texas as
before stated, in the year 1854 and settled the place near Florence
where he lived until his death. He was a great hunter and trapper and
in his declining years, if he enjoyed anything better than trapping
for wolves, polecats and rattlesnakes, it was to got some of his
friends together while be told of the great sport he had in this
country with his dogs, guns and traps in early days in the Florence
country. Thus passes another of the brave pioneers who came here and
blazed  trail that We might follow and enjoy the fruits of the land
discovered. We cannot close without mentioning the everready smile
Uncle Lewis had for everybody, and it always made the "grouchy" person
feel better to meet and talk to him.

Copied at the Florence Library 12 Nov 1932.
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Copied from the Florence Cemetery Records
EPPIE, wife of LEWELLYN MOORE - Jan. 7, 1833 - Feb. 11, 1918
LEWELLYN MOORE - May 16, 1824 - Oct. 15, 1913

Note:  Lewellyn "Uncle Lewis" Moore was the son of Lewellen Moore
and Priscilla Thornton of Fayette Co, AL.  He was a brother to 
John Mayfield Moore.