Eminent Domain in the Moore Community of Wayne County, Missouri
The subject of Eminent Domain came up at the last Moore Family Reunion in Arnold, Missouri on September 6, 2014... specifically as to how many acres of land were owned by Daniel Moore at the time of the government seizures. I had read somewhere of 120 acres, and Uncle Cecil Wilson clearly stated that he felt it had been much more than that. I knew he was right, but, couldn't get a fix on where I had come up with that figure. Since our next reunion is at Rucker in Wayne County, September 5, 2015, and a visit to the Moore Spring and the old home sites along Wet Fork Creek in the Ojibway Valley, I felt the subject was due some research. I believe we all will have an enhanced appreciation of our sight line from the ridge where Daniel Moore's home once gave shelter to Bessie, Ann, and Ted (Doad), across the creek valley in front in one direction and to the wooded hills in the back as a result of the research. We can only imagine at the effort and sacrifice of our ancestral G