Mollie E. Moore

Mollie Moore was born Mary Evalina Moore in Talladega, Alabama, on April 12, 1844, and changed her name at fourteen. Her first collection, Minding the Gap and Other Poems, appeared in 1867, with enlarged editions in 1869 and 1872. After she married Thomas E. Davis in 1874 and settled in New Orleans, she wrote novels, including The Wire-Cutters, and Under Six Flags, a school history of Texas. She became editor of the Picayune in 1889. The Handbook says that on visits to her brother's family in Comanche she conquered tuberculosis.

What the plaque says

Mollie E. Moore (1844-1909) During the Civil War, wrote poems Texans memorized, cut out of newspapers, sent their boys on the battlefront: about the deaths of heroes, Texans' units, Confederate victories and such topics. She also did social work and nursing at Camp Ford, Tyler. She was a lively, spirited girl who went horseback riding with a pistol strapped to her side. After war, became nationally known poet, novelist, columnist. Married a newspaper editor. Led New Orleans society 20 years. Near this marker site, at Old Mooresville (now Proctor) often visited her brother's family. (1965)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Dublin Bottling Works — 21 mi
  The Erath County plant that bottled Dr Pepper with cane sugar from 1891 until a 2012 settlement ended its Dr Pepper license, and that still makes its own sodas the same way.
• Lake Brownwood State Park — 24 mi
  A CCC park on a reservoir that filled in a single flood before its dam was done, with stone cabins, a hilltop dance pavilion and a grand staircase climbed by dancers arriving by boat.

More markers nearby

• Hardin, John Wesley — steps away
• Comanche County — 0.3 mi
• The Comanche Chief — 0.8 mi
• Indian Raid in Comanche — 0.8 mi