married in 1876 Obion County, TN.
PROF. W. R. MOORE DIES AT WOODBURY
San Angelo, TX - Abt November 23, 1925
TEACHER FOR 51 YEARS AND SAN ANGELOAN FOR 11 YEARS STRICKEN SUDDENLY FRIDAY MORNING. Funeral Here Sunday. Mrs. J. H. Boggs, Daughter, Is Nearest Survivor; Educator Was Classmate of Woodrow Wilson
Professor W. R. Moore, 75 years old, for fifty-one years: a school teacher, eleven years of that time in San Angelo, died at 2 o’clock Friday morning in the home of his brother-in-law, J. K. Parr, at Woodbury, Hill County, according to a telephone message received here by his son-in-law and daughter, Mrs. J. H. Boggs, 525 Preusser Street. He was ill only a short time, acute indigestion, it is thought, causing his death.
The body left Hillsboro at 10 o’clock Friday morning and is due to reach San Angelo on the Santa Fe at 12:40 o’clock Saturday morning. It will be taken by Johnson’s Funeral Parlor to the residence of Mr. and Mr. Boggs, where funeral services will be held sometime Sunday afternoon. The Rev. B. O. Wood, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Burial will be made in Fairmount Cemetery. Active pall bearers will be Charles H. Powell, R. J. Andrew, J. G. Shepperson, R. C. Ferguson, R. L. Nisbet and Dr. W. P. Menzies. Honorary pall bearers will be George Allen, M. B. Jones, J. M. Hammonds, D. S. Taylor, D. J. Burk and J. M. Peden.
Surviving besides the daughter, Mrs. J. H. Boggs, are two grandchildren, Lydale Boggs and Herschel Boggs, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Boggs; one sister, Mrs. W. F. Barry of Jackson, Tenn.; H. E. Chiles of Itasca, Texas, a brother-in-law; Mrs. Minnie McElrath of Nashville, Tenn., a sister-in-law, and J. K. Parr of Woodbury, Tex., a brother-in-law. Mrs. Emma Parr Moore, wife of Professor Moore, died here in 1914 - oldest son, Jefferson Parr Moore, died in 1911. The other son died in infancy.
TAUGHT FIRST IN LOG CABIN
Professor Moore was graduated from Davidson College at Davidson, N. C. in 1874, the year the late Woodrow Wilson, war time President of the United States, enrolled there as a freshman. Both were members of the Eumenean Literary Society and Professor Moore remembered his younger class mate as “a very brilliant boy.” When the late President Wilson was nominated by the Democrats the first time, Professor Moore contributed an article for the local paper at Columbia, Tenn. which sometime afterward reached the president through other channels and drew from him a personal letter.
Professor Moore was born in Columbia, Tenn., moving when a boy with his parents to Obion County, Tenn., where he began his education in a log cabin, later being graduated from Davidson College. Returning to Tennessee, he began teaching school and throughout his long and eventful career never followed any other profession. In Tennessee, Professor Moore married Miss Emma D. Parr and to the union two sons and daughter were born. Prof. Moore and his family came to San Angelo in 1906 from California and Tucson, Arizona, where they had spent some time on account of the health of Jefferson Parr Moore, their son.
In 1907, Professor Moore established Moore’s High School at his residence, where Mr. and Mrs. Boggs now live and conducted it for eleven years. Many of his pupils were admitted on examination to Vanderbilt and other universities or higher standing. Professor Moore moved to Hill County in 1913 and was shortly followed by Mr. and Mrs. Boggs who returned to San Angelo the following year. Professor Moore taught the first term at Arrnotville, the next at Lakenon, and then for three years was instructor in the Lebanon School, all in Hill County. He was beginning his third term in the Woodbury school in Hill County when fatally stricken.
WAS WORLD-WIDE TRAVELER.
Professor Moore made two trips around the world, primarily in order that he might pass on to his pupils the knowledge thereby gained. His last journey was in the summer and fall of 1922. After attending commencement at Davidson College, Professor Moore sailed from New York through the Panama Canal to San Francisco, thence to Honolulu, Japan and Korea. Bandit raids prevented the pioneer educator from traveling in China. He went thru India, Egypt, the Holy Land, Greece and the Balkan States. Denmark, Norway and Sweden, which were missed on Professor Moore’s other tour twenty-eight years previous, were visited in 1922. At Birmingham, England, Professor Moore visited a sister of George Sills, with whom he made his home at Woodbury for several years. Spain and Portugal were the last countries on the itinerary.
Educational methods changed greatly during Professor Moore’s fifty-one years’ experience as a teacher, begun in a log cabin near Union City, Tenn., where he taught fifty-five pupils from sunrise until dark. All branches have advanced but because so many new courses have been added, Professor Moore once stated in an interview that he did not believe the instruction in fundamentals was as thorough as it was a quarter-century or more ago. “They never have found anything to excel McGuffey’s series of readers, the old blue back spelling book and Ray’s arithmetic,” said Professor Moore, “and you don’t find as good readers and spellers today as you used to. Now a days they teach the beginner to read before he learns his A, B, C’s. I stick to the old method.”
A SUCCESSFUL TUTOR
And Professor Moore proudly listed some former pupils, men now professors in college, doctors, lawyers, and successful business men. Professor Moore, since boyhood, had been a member of the Presbyterian Church and throughout his residence in San Angelo was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church here.
PROF. W. R. MOORE DIES AT WOODBURY
San Angelo, TX - Abt November 23, 1925
TEACHER FOR 51 YEARS AND SAN ANGELOAN FOR 11 YEARS STRICKEN SUDDENLY FRIDAY MORNING. Funeral Here Sunday. Mrs. J. H. Boggs, Daughter, Is Nearest Survivor; Educator Was Classmate of Woodrow Wilson
Professor W. R. Moore, 75 years old, for fifty-one years: a school teacher, eleven years of that time in San Angelo, died at 2 o’clock Friday morning in the home of his brother-in-law, J. K. Parr, at Woodbury, Hill County, according to a telephone message received here by his son-in-law and daughter, Mrs. J. H. Boggs, 525 Preusser Street. He was ill only a short time, acute indigestion, it is thought, causing his death.
The body left Hillsboro at 10 o’clock Friday morning and is due to reach San Angelo on the Santa Fe at 12:40 o’clock Saturday morning. It will be taken by Johnson’s Funeral Parlor to the residence of Mr. and Mr. Boggs, where funeral services will be held sometime Sunday afternoon. The Rev. B. O. Wood, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Burial will be made in Fairmount Cemetery. Active pall bearers will be Charles H. Powell, R. J. Andrew, J. G. Shepperson, R. C. Ferguson, R. L. Nisbet and Dr. W. P. Menzies. Honorary pall bearers will be George Allen, M. B. Jones, J. M. Hammonds, D. S. Taylor, D. J. Burk and J. M. Peden.
Surviving besides the daughter, Mrs. J. H. Boggs, are two grandchildren, Lydale Boggs and Herschel Boggs, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Boggs; one sister, Mrs. W. F. Barry of Jackson, Tenn.; H. E. Chiles of Itasca, Texas, a brother-in-law; Mrs. Minnie McElrath of Nashville, Tenn., a sister-in-law, and J. K. Parr of Woodbury, Tex., a brother-in-law. Mrs. Emma Parr Moore, wife of Professor Moore, died here in 1914 - oldest son, Jefferson Parr Moore, died in 1911. The other son died in infancy.
TAUGHT FIRST IN LOG CABIN
Professor Moore was graduated from Davidson College at Davidson, N. C. in 1874, the year the late Woodrow Wilson, war time President of the United States, enrolled there as a freshman. Both were members of the Eumenean Literary Society and Professor Moore remembered his younger class mate as “a very brilliant boy.” When the late President Wilson was nominated by the Democrats the first time, Professor Moore contributed an article for the local paper at Columbia, Tenn. which sometime afterward reached the president through other channels and drew from him a personal letter.
Professor Moore was born in Columbia, Tenn., moving when a boy with his parents to Obion County, Tenn., where he began his education in a log cabin, later being graduated from Davidson College. Returning to Tennessee, he began teaching school and throughout his long and eventful career never followed any other profession. In Tennessee, Professor Moore married Miss Emma D. Parr and to the union two sons and daughter were born. Prof. Moore and his family came to San Angelo in 1906 from California and Tucson, Arizona, where they had spent some time on account of the health of Jefferson Parr Moore, their son.
In 1907, Professor Moore established Moore’s High School at his residence, where Mr. and Mrs. Boggs now live and conducted it for eleven years. Many of his pupils were admitted on examination to Vanderbilt and other universities or higher standing. Professor Moore moved to Hill County in 1913 and was shortly followed by Mr. and Mrs. Boggs who returned to San Angelo the following year. Professor Moore taught the first term at Arrnotville, the next at Lakenon, and then for three years was instructor in the Lebanon School, all in Hill County. He was beginning his third term in the Woodbury school in Hill County when fatally stricken.
WAS WORLD-WIDE TRAVELER.
Professor Moore made two trips around the world, primarily in order that he might pass on to his pupils the knowledge thereby gained. His last journey was in the summer and fall of 1922. After attending commencement at Davidson College, Professor Moore sailed from New York through the Panama Canal to San Francisco, thence to Honolulu, Japan and Korea. Bandit raids prevented the pioneer educator from traveling in China. He went thru India, Egypt, the Holy Land, Greece and the Balkan States. Denmark, Norway and Sweden, which were missed on Professor Moore’s other tour twenty-eight years previous, were visited in 1922. At Birmingham, England, Professor Moore visited a sister of George Sills, with whom he made his home at Woodbury for several years. Spain and Portugal were the last countries on the itinerary.
Educational methods changed greatly during Professor Moore’s fifty-one years’ experience as a teacher, begun in a log cabin near Union City, Tenn., where he taught fifty-five pupils from sunrise until dark. All branches have advanced but because so many new courses have been added, Professor Moore once stated in an interview that he did not believe the instruction in fundamentals was as thorough as it was a quarter-century or more ago. “They never have found anything to excel McGuffey’s series of readers, the old blue back spelling book and Ray’s arithmetic,” said Professor Moore, “and you don’t find as good readers and spellers today as you used to. Now a days they teach the beginner to read before he learns his A, B, C’s. I stick to the old method.”
A SUCCESSFUL TUTOR
And Professor Moore proudly listed some former pupils, men now professors in college, doctors, lawyers, and successful business men. Professor Moore, since boyhood, had been a member of the Presbyterian Church and throughout his residence in San Angelo was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church here.
married in 1876 Obion County, TN.
PROF. W. R. MOORE DIES AT WOODBURY
San Angelo, TX - Abt November 23, 1925
TEACHER FOR 51 YEARS AND SAN ANGELOAN FOR 11 YEARS STRICKEN SUDDENLY FRIDAY MORNING. Funeral Here Sunday. Mrs. J. H. Boggs, Daughter, Is Nearest Survivor; Educator Was Classmate of Woodrow Wilson
Professor W. R. Moore, 75 years old, for fifty-one years: a school teacher, eleven years of that time in San Angelo, died at 2 o’clock Friday morning in the home of his brother-in-law, J. K. Parr, at Woodbury, Hill County, according to a telephone message received here by his son-in-law and daughter, Mrs. J. H. Boggs, 525 Preusser Street. He was ill only a short time, acute indigestion, it is thought, causing his death.
The body left Hillsboro at 10 o’clock Friday morning and is due to reach San Angelo on the Santa Fe at 12:40 o’clock Saturday morning. It will be taken by Johnson’s Funeral Parlor to the residence of Mr. and Mr. Boggs, where funeral services will be held sometime Sunday afternoon. The Rev. B. O. Wood, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Burial will be made in Fairmount Cemetery. Active pall bearers will be Charles H. Powell, R. J. Andrew, J. G. Shepperson, R. C. Ferguson, R. L. Nisbet and Dr. W. P. Menzies. Honorary pall bearers will be George Allen, M. B. Jones, J. M. Hammonds, D. S. Taylor, D. J. Burk and J. M. Peden.
Surviving besides the daughter, Mrs. J. H. Boggs, are two grandchildren, Lydale Boggs and Herschel Boggs, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Boggs; one sister, Mrs. W. F. Barry of Jackson, Tenn.; H. E. Chiles of Itasca, Texas, a brother-in-law; Mrs. Minnie McElrath of Nashville, Tenn., a sister-in-law, and J. K. Parr of Woodbury, Tex., a brother-in-law. Mrs. Emma Parr Moore, wife of Professor Moore, died here in 1914 - oldest son, Jefferson Parr Moore, died in 1911. The other son died in infancy.
TAUGHT FIRST IN LOG CABIN
Professor Moore was graduated from Davidson College at Davidson, N. C. in 1874, the year the late Woodrow Wilson, war time President of the United States, enrolled there as a freshman. Both were members of the Eumenean Literary Society and Professor Moore remembered his younger class mate as “a very brilliant boy.” When the late President Wilson was nominated by the Democrats the first time, Professor Moore contributed an article for the local paper at Columbia, Tenn. which sometime afterward reached the president through other channels and drew from him a personal letter.
Professor Moore was born in Columbia, Tenn., moving when a boy with his parents to Obion County, Tenn., where he began his education in a log cabin, later being graduated from Davidson College. Returning to Tennessee, he began teaching school and throughout his long and eventful career never followed any other profession. In Tennessee, Professor Moore married Miss Emma D. Parr and to the union two sons and daughter were born. Prof. Moore and his family came to San Angelo in 1906 from California and Tucson, Arizona, where they had spent some time on account of the health of Jefferson Parr Moore, their son.
In 1907, Professor Moore established Moore’s High School at his residence, where Mr. and Mrs. Boggs now live and conducted it for eleven years. Many of his pupils were admitted on examination to Vanderbilt and other universities or higher standing. Professor Moore moved to Hill County in 1913 and was shortly followed by Mr. and Mrs. Boggs who returned to San Angelo the following year. Professor Moore taught the first term at Arrnotville, the next at Lakenon, and then for three years was instructor in the Lebanon School, all in Hill County. He was beginning his third term in the Woodbury school in Hill County when fatally stricken.
WAS WORLD-WIDE TRAVELER.
Professor Moore made two trips around the world, primarily in order that he might pass on to his pupils the knowledge thereby gained. His last journey was in the summer and fall of 1922. After attending commencement at Davidson College, Professor Moore sailed from New York through the Panama Canal to San Francisco, thence to Honolulu, Japan and Korea. Bandit raids prevented the pioneer educator from traveling in China. He went thru India, Egypt, the Holy Land, Greece and the Balkan States. Denmark, Norway and Sweden, which were missed on Professor Moore’s other tour twenty-eight years previous, were visited in 1922. At Birmingham, England, Professor Moore visited a sister of George Sills, with whom he made his home at Woodbury for several years. Spain and Portugal were the last countries on the itinerary.
Educational methods changed greatly during Professor Moore’s fifty-one years’ experience as a teacher, begun in a log cabin near Union City, Tenn., where he taught fifty-five pupils from sunrise until dark. All branches have advanced but because so many new courses have been added, Professor Moore once stated in an interview that he did not believe the instruction in fundamentals was as thorough as it was a quarter-century or more ago. “They never have found anything to excel McGuffey’s series of readers, the old blue back spelling book and Ray’s arithmetic,” said Professor Moore, “and you don’t find as good readers and spellers today as you used to. Now a days they teach the beginner to read before he learns his A, B, C’s. I stick to the old method.”
A SUCCESSFUL TUTOR
And Professor Moore proudly listed some former pupils, men now professors in college, doctors, lawyers, and successful business men. Professor Moore, since boyhood, had been a member of the Presbyterian Church and throughout his residence in San Angelo was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church here.
PROF. W. R. MOORE DIES AT WOODBURY
San Angelo, TX - Abt November 23, 1925
TEACHER FOR 51 YEARS AND SAN ANGELOAN FOR 11 YEARS STRICKEN SUDDENLY FRIDAY MORNING. Funeral Here Sunday. Mrs. J. H. Boggs, Daughter, Is Nearest Survivor; Educator Was Classmate of Woodrow Wilson
Professor W. R. Moore, 75 years old, for fifty-one years: a school teacher, eleven years of that time in San Angelo, died at 2 o’clock Friday morning in the home of his brother-in-law, J. K. Parr, at Woodbury, Hill County, according to a telephone message received here by his son-in-law and daughter, Mrs. J. H. Boggs, 525 Preusser Street. He was ill only a short time, acute indigestion, it is thought, causing his death.
The body left Hillsboro at 10 o’clock Friday morning and is due to reach San Angelo on the Santa Fe at 12:40 o’clock Saturday morning. It will be taken by Johnson’s Funeral Parlor to the residence of Mr. and Mr. Boggs, where funeral services will be held sometime Sunday afternoon. The Rev. B. O. Wood, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Burial will be made in Fairmount Cemetery. Active pall bearers will be Charles H. Powell, R. J. Andrew, J. G. Shepperson, R. C. Ferguson, R. L. Nisbet and Dr. W. P. Menzies. Honorary pall bearers will be George Allen, M. B. Jones, J. M. Hammonds, D. S. Taylor, D. J. Burk and J. M. Peden.
Surviving besides the daughter, Mrs. J. H. Boggs, are two grandchildren, Lydale Boggs and Herschel Boggs, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Boggs; one sister, Mrs. W. F. Barry of Jackson, Tenn.; H. E. Chiles of Itasca, Texas, a brother-in-law; Mrs. Minnie McElrath of Nashville, Tenn., a sister-in-law, and J. K. Parr of Woodbury, Tex., a brother-in-law. Mrs. Emma Parr Moore, wife of Professor Moore, died here in 1914 - oldest son, Jefferson Parr Moore, died in 1911. The other son died in infancy.
TAUGHT FIRST IN LOG CABIN
Professor Moore was graduated from Davidson College at Davidson, N. C. in 1874, the year the late Woodrow Wilson, war time President of the United States, enrolled there as a freshman. Both were members of the Eumenean Literary Society and Professor Moore remembered his younger class mate as “a very brilliant boy.” When the late President Wilson was nominated by the Democrats the first time, Professor Moore contributed an article for the local paper at Columbia, Tenn. which sometime afterward reached the president through other channels and drew from him a personal letter.
Professor Moore was born in Columbia, Tenn., moving when a boy with his parents to Obion County, Tenn., where he began his education in a log cabin, later being graduated from Davidson College. Returning to Tennessee, he began teaching school and throughout his long and eventful career never followed any other profession. In Tennessee, Professor Moore married Miss Emma D. Parr and to the union two sons and daughter were born. Prof. Moore and his family came to San Angelo in 1906 from California and Tucson, Arizona, where they had spent some time on account of the health of Jefferson Parr Moore, their son.
In 1907, Professor Moore established Moore’s High School at his residence, where Mr. and Mrs. Boggs now live and conducted it for eleven years. Many of his pupils were admitted on examination to Vanderbilt and other universities or higher standing. Professor Moore moved to Hill County in 1913 and was shortly followed by Mr. and Mrs. Boggs who returned to San Angelo the following year. Professor Moore taught the first term at Arrnotville, the next at Lakenon, and then for three years was instructor in the Lebanon School, all in Hill County. He was beginning his third term in the Woodbury school in Hill County when fatally stricken.
WAS WORLD-WIDE TRAVELER.
Professor Moore made two trips around the world, primarily in order that he might pass on to his pupils the knowledge thereby gained. His last journey was in the summer and fall of 1922. After attending commencement at Davidson College, Professor Moore sailed from New York through the Panama Canal to San Francisco, thence to Honolulu, Japan and Korea. Bandit raids prevented the pioneer educator from traveling in China. He went thru India, Egypt, the Holy Land, Greece and the Balkan States. Denmark, Norway and Sweden, which were missed on Professor Moore’s other tour twenty-eight years previous, were visited in 1922. At Birmingham, England, Professor Moore visited a sister of George Sills, with whom he made his home at Woodbury for several years. Spain and Portugal were the last countries on the itinerary.
Educational methods changed greatly during Professor Moore’s fifty-one years’ experience as a teacher, begun in a log cabin near Union City, Tenn., where he taught fifty-five pupils from sunrise until dark. All branches have advanced but because so many new courses have been added, Professor Moore once stated in an interview that he did not believe the instruction in fundamentals was as thorough as it was a quarter-century or more ago. “They never have found anything to excel McGuffey’s series of readers, the old blue back spelling book and Ray’s arithmetic,” said Professor Moore, “and you don’t find as good readers and spellers today as you used to. Now a days they teach the beginner to read before he learns his A, B, C’s. I stick to the old method.”
A SUCCESSFUL TUTOR
And Professor Moore proudly listed some former pupils, men now professors in college, doctors, lawyers, and successful business men. Professor Moore, since boyhood, had been a member of the Presbyterian Church and throughout his residence in San Angelo was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church here.
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