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Note: Uncle Grover was a very likable man, whose hobby was all kinds of fishing in his lifetime. He first married Laura Haynes in
Murfreesboro, TN and they had 1 son named Dick Moore, after his
uncle. In the family he was know as little Dick Moore.
Unfortunately, he drowned accidentally in a lake near Franklin,
TN when he has 32 years old. Uncle Grover was divorced from his
1st wife and moved to Vidalia, GA, where he owned a Ford
automobile dealer-garage for a few years. Then he moved to
Cordele, GA about 1917 where he operated an automobile storage
battery business for a number of years. His 2nd marriage was to
Ellen of Lyons, GA and they had one son and one daughter. Their
son William "Billy" Moore died in an Air Force airplane crash
near Panama City, Florida, September 22, 1942 during WWII.
Their daughter, Nan married Raymond D. Manning. Uncle Grover
Moore operated a battery business in West Palm Beach, Fl for a
number of years after leaving Cordele. He was killed in an
automobile crash there in 1931, when he was 42 years old. He
was buried in Lyons, GA the hometown of his wife, Ellen. Ellen
remarried a Mr. J.B. Burch and they operated a hardware and auto
supplies store in West Palm Beach for some years.
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