Individual Details

Death

Simon Lafayette "Fate" Moore was born in 1844 and was a Baptist preacher who stood 6 foot 8 inches tall. He was the son of William "Bill" Moore and Lou Patterson. In 1873, he married 25-year-old, 5 foot nothing, half Cherokee, Elizabeth Aline "Faith" Brabston in Jefferson Co, TN. By 1893 Aline had given birth to 8 children, one of which died in infancy. Three years later, they decided to GO TO TEXAS , leaving behind their oldest daughter Mattie Aline who had married a young man named Ivy (we thought). Not realizing they would never see Mattie again, or ever know any of her children, they took the six youngest children and joined a wagon train headed west, making their new home in Fannin County, Texas.