Margaret Antonio Moore

Margaret Antonio Moore — known to everyone as Maggie — was born on July 14, 1864. She was the daughter of John Calhoun Moore (born 1836 in North Carolina, died 1871 in Calvert, Texas) and Ruth Jane Lindsey Moore (born 1834 in Georgia, died 1906 in Walker County).¹

Marriage

On December 15, 1880, Maggie married William James Morris (“Billy”) at Maysfield, Texas. The Baptist minister E. J. Glazner performed the ceremony.¹

Migration to Walker County

In December 1887, Billy, Maggie, and their small children set out from Milam County for Walker County, accompanied by Billy’s brothers Pat and Lum. The men took turns driving wagons loaded with livestock, camping each night along the way. The trip took three weeks. They settled at the McAdams Community, where Billy farmed.¹

Children

Maggie and Billy had eleven children: John, Jim, Will, Irma, Hattie, Grady, Sally, George, Lloyd, E. (Ebb), and Bernice. Jim became the barber of Huntsville and married Ethel Arrine Thompson in 1906.¹

Widowhood and Later Life

Billy died in 1927. In 1920, Maggie had moved with him and their younger children to Brownwood, Texas. After Billy’s death she continued in Brownwood before eventually returning to Huntsville in her later years.¹

Maggie lived to ninety-eight. The Huntsville Item celebrated her birthday in 1962. She died on June 9, 1963, at Huntsville Memorial Hospital, survived by twenty-two grandchildren, thirty great-grandchildren, and nine great-great-grandchildren. She was buried at Greenleaf Cemetery, Brownwood, beside her husband.²