Lewis Melvin Moore Jr., 1887–1927 (aged 39 years)
- Name
- Lewis Melvin /Moore/ Jr.
- Given names
- Lewis Melvin
- Surname
- Moore
- Name suffix
- Jr.
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Type: Birth of Moore, Lewis Melvin Jr. State: Texas Country: United States of America |
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State: Texas Country: United States of America |
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Death of a paternal grandmother
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State: Texas Country: United States of America |
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Death of a maternal grandfather
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State: Texas Country: United States of America
Cause: Dropsy and senility |
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Death of a father
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State: Texas Country: United States of America |
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Address line 2: Forest Park Cemetery City: Houston State: Texas Country: United States of America |
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Burial of a father
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Address line 2: Fields Store Cemetery (formerly New Hope Cemetery) State: Texas Country: United States of America |
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Death
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Type: Death of Moore, Lewis Melvin Jr. State: Texas Country: United States of America INDI:DEAT:ADDR:NOTE: @N1704@ |
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Burial
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Type: Burial of Moore, Lewis Melvin Jr. State: Texas Country: United States of America INDI:BURI:ADDR:NOTE: @N1704@ |
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1845–1916
Birth: 8 May 1845
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— Iredell, North Carolina, United States of America Death: 16 August 1916 — Waller, Texas, United States of America |
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1860–1946
Birth: 30 September 1860
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— Courtney, Martin, Texas, United States of America Death: 8 April 1946 — Waller, Texas, United States of America |
| MARRIAGE OF MOORE, LEWIS MELVIN SR. AND WALLINGFORD, ELIZA OWENS | MARRIAGE OF MOORE, LEWIS MELVIN SR. AND WALLINGFORD, ELIZA OWENS — 1 December 1878 — |
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11 months
elder sister |
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2 years
elder sister |
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2 years
elder sister |
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21 months
elder sister |
1885–1965
Birth: 27 July 1885
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— Waller, Texas, United States of America Death: 10 May 1965 |
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2 years
himself |
1887–1927
Birth: 27 September 1887
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— Waller, Texas, United States of America Death: 8 May 1927 — Hempstead, Waller, Texas, United States of America |
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3 years
younger brother |
1890–1975
Birth: 17 April 1890
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— Waller, Texas, United States of America Death: 31 July 1975 — Hempstead, Waller, Texas, United States of America |
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3 years
younger sister |
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3 years
younger sister |
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3 years
younger sister |
1899–1994
Birth: 24 January 1899
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Death: 7 January 1994 — Georgetown, Williamson, Texas, United States of America |
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2 years
younger brother |
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1887–1927
Birth: 27 September 1887
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— Waller, Texas, United States of America Death: 8 May 1927 — Hempstead, Waller, Texas, United States of America |
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Shared note
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He was a sheriff. |
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Shared note
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He died in an automobile accident. |
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Shared note
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From Arthur Moore, Jr., January 2010: Melvin Moore Jr. is thought to have moved from Fields Store to Hempstead at or about the same time as his parents, Melvin and Eliza Moore. He became a carpenter, but later engaged in farming, ranching and cattle trading. He was drafted into the Army during World War I and served as an infantry sergeant in the fierce fighting in France. After the armistice in 1918, he stayed in the Army for several months in the occupation of the Rhineland in Germany. He got back to Hempstead in the summer of 1919. Because it was too late to plant crops and not wanting to be idle, he began picking cotton and followed the cotton harvest to west Texas. There he met and married his wife Eula and brought her home to Hempstead. Melvin Jr. resumed farming and ranching, and he and Eula had a son, Howell. In 1924, Melvin Jr. was persuaded by friends and concerned citizens to run for sheriff of Waller County as an anti Ku Klux Klan candidate. He defeated the incumbent sheriff and took office in 1925. Because the county did not fund the position of jailer, Melvin Jr. and his family moved into the jailer’s living quarters in the old jail which was located on the courthouse grounds northeast of the old courthouse. As sheriff, Melvin Jr. was much admired and respected for treating all fairly, without regard to wealth, political connections or race. On one occasion, he was called to the southern part of the county where a young man, probably drinking, was creating a disturbance by repeatedly firing a weapon. Upon his arrival, Sheriff Moore was advised by a local supporter not to arrest the young man, as he was the son of an important man in the area. Sheriff Moore is said to have replied, “I don’t care whose son he is; he’s breaking the law and he’s going to jail.” Melvin Jr. ran unopposed and was elected for a second term as sheriff. Soon after the commencement of his second term in 1927, Melvin Jr. died at the age of 39 in an automobile accident while he and a friend were returning to Hempstead from Houston. Melvin Jr. is buried in the Hempstead Cemetery. Soon after his death, his widow with their young son returned to her family in West Texas. |
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