MEMORIES OF THE RUCKER COMMUNITY BY THEODORE MOORE
INTRODUCTION: I remember Uncle "Doad", as he was called by family, only in the infirmity and decline of his senior years. Theodore Roosevelt Moore was the last male heir born to Civil War and Plains Wars soldier Daniel Moore, by his last marriage to Susan Ann Tarlton. Ted Moore had two sisters by this marriage, Bessie Edith Moore Wilson and Essie Anna Moore Dees. He recalls a pretty thorough list of all the families living in the general Rucker and Moore Communities in the early 1900's. But of special interest to the reader might be the anecdotes he recalls of Rucker School, working a cowhide for shoestrings, and meeting at a neighbors house to make tasty treats. His contributions to the Rucker Cemetery and improvements he personally undertook are recalled but in no measure reflect the weeks, days, and hours he personally devoted, the sweat and manual labor, that were expended, to improve the cemetery in large part to what we know today. It was a l...