Transcript of Oral History Interview with Thomas Jasper "Jack" Moore, III, June 6, 2011 Page: 10 of 26

                                
Jack Moore
from the Divide, from above Hunt, they would come there and get their supplies,
get their food, come in wagons. Then there was a lot of freight that was shipped
from Ingram, say to Rocksprings, with horse and mules and wagons. It was kind of
a....they would drive their cattle in, he had a big pen or field or pasture where they
could keep their cattle there overnight if they needed to, and the next day they'd
bring them on to Kerrville and put them on the cars - trains, to be shipped there.
He lived and died right there in Ingram, right close to the Stephen's cedar yard,
right across the street there.
FRANCELLE:     So that was the hub, it sounds like, everybody had to either come there to buy
something or come there to use his facilities for the cows..
JACK:          That's right, there were a lot of people who came there and he would charge it to
them maybe for 6 months, and then they'd sell their mohair and they'd pay him. It
was, a lot of people used his services there, kinda like the Schreiner's here in
Kerrville. He sold groceries and clothing - work clothes - he didn't sell any...it
was all work clothes...gloves, and things like that. And he was there until he then
sold the business to my father in about 1930. That's when my mother and father
were married, 1930.
FRANCELLE:     And then he turned it into strictly lumber then and after that?
JACK:          Yes, after that. He deleted the other things, strictly lumber and hardware.
FRANCELLE:     And your grandmother, can you tell us a little about her?
JACK:          She was always - seemed like she was - she was a very severe diabetic and she
was always, seems like in my memory she was always sick, and bedridden a lot of
the time and finally died when I was very young, there, she passed away -my
grandfather was 94 when he passed away, my father was 93, and my mother was 95
I believe, so longevity on that.
FRANCELLE:     And then I believe your grandmother passed away and he married her sister?
JACK:          That's correct. Then he married Aunt Susan. She was, never been married and
lived with them all her life there. And then when my grandmother passed away, I
believe it was in about '58 or '60, somewhere, and then he married Aunt Susan
there. And gosh, she was 80 or 90 years old when they got married, but they lived
together... She taught Admiral Nimitz. She has a lot of good stories to tell. Aunt
Susan, they called her Sister, she lived with Mama Moore and Papa. And then
when Mama Moore died then he married her.
FRANCELLE:     And that was done a lot of times.
JACK:          Yes, I think that's right.
FRANCELLE:     And the most endearing thing I think I read was that they're buried in Nichols

Cemetery beside each other.

Kerr County Historical Commission

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