Moore Cemetery

Moore began as a creek hollow. August and Louisa Obets, who moved from Castroville in 1870, settled at Moore Hollow Creek in 1874 in a grass-covered log house and built the first frame house in 1876. In August 1881 Mary Rihn sold fifty acres to R. S. Hayes for a townsite, and in February 1882 Hayes granted the International-Great Northern its right-of-way. By 1884 Moore's Station shipped wool and had a hotel, a saloon and two stores. The name moved from Moore Hollow to Moore Station in 1892 and plain Moore in 1897.

What the plaque says

Moore Cemetery First public burial ground in community. Before its founding people were buried in private plots, church cemeteries, or in public graveyards outside this precinct. In 1896 Moses Veith deeded five acres of land for use as a community cemetery. Interred here are pioneers and men who fought in Indian battles, World Wars I and II, and other major conflicts. Moore was named for early Texas R. B. "Mustang" Moore, who lived on a small creek near here. In 1861 he was killed by Comanches. The town was first named Moore Hollow. (1970)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Frio Pioneer Jail Museum — 13 mi
  Pearsall's 1884 county jail, the town's oldest building, used for 83 years and now a free museum with a sheriff's home downstairs and six cells above.
• Landmark Inn State Historic Site — 22 mi
  A store and stage stop at the Medina River ford in Henri Castro's Alsatian town, with a mill race under the ground and rooms you can still rent for the night.
• Atascosa County Courthouse — 29 mi
  The only surviving Mission Revival courthouse in Texas, built in 1912-13 on Jourdanton's town circle after a county seat vote that some residents still call a theft.

More markers nearby

• Moore Catholic Cemetery — 0.7 mi
• William Carvin Winters — 6.5 mi
• Tehuacana Cemetery — 7.6 mi
• William Alexander A. Wallace — 8.0 mi