The Rev. John Silliman Moore

The Sherman Courier's 1917 anniversary edition remembered Dr. John S. Moore as one of the most popular and beloved ministers the city had known. It says he arrived in 1879 and spent about 25 years in charge of First Presbyterian Church, serving the whole community and not only his own congregation. The paper also named him among the hardest fighters against the saloons of his day. He died September 17, 1903, and the tribute says Sherman saloons and other businesses closed their doors out of respect to his memory.

What the plaque says

The Rev. John Silliman Moore The Rev. John Silliman Moore Born in Mississippi in 1840, John Silliman Moore attended college in Georgia before serving in the Civil War, where he was wounded at Seven Pines, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. In 1870, after graduating from the Presbyterian seminary in Columbia, South Carolina, he pastored churches in Jefferson, Tyler, McKinney and then Sherman, Texas, where he led the First Presbyterian Church from 1879 until his death in 1903. He sat on Austin College's board of trustees from c. 1875 to 1902, helping relocate the school from Huntsville to Sherman. Recorded - 2002

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

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• Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge — 11 mi
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• Eisenhower State Park — 12 mi
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• Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site — 24 mi
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