Notes from Occupation event: Georgia power co. for 45 years
Cy did beautiful woodworking. He and Ruby raised chickens in their backyard in Columbus. He doted on Curtis, Jr., more in later years I think. He was not as free with his money as Ruby and not near as good hearted.
Notes from Occupation event: homemaker
Ruby was a wonderful person. She never met a stranger and was very protective of her only child, Curtis. He was her heart. She had more energy and worked harder than anyone I've ever known. She died in a nursing home alone. None of us were with her. She had been failing for two months and I often asked God why he didn't take her, she was suffering so. It's been over two years and I still miss her.
Notes from Occupation event: Locomotive engineer-Central of Ga. RR
A recollection of Curtis Williamson Young, Jr. Sometime between 1894
and 1900 Beauregard and his family, Bose Moore and BenJack Moore went out to Mississippi to buy cheap land and farm, 10 - 15 cents an acre.
Beauregard had loaded all the furniture on a box car. They lived in a
tent for about a month; the furniture was never unloaded. Cordelia didn't like it and neither did Beauregard and Bose. They moved back to Georgia. BenJack stayed in Mississippi. According to Curtis, he was mad because they moved back.A recollection of Ruby Moore (who worshiped her Papa. Many times he would have to get up around 2 or 3 in the morning for trip. The whole family would get up with him and eat a huge breakfast and when he left, they all went back to bed. When they got back up in the morning, they ate again. Maybe that's why the three girls and Cordelia were all overweight.
In the 1898 Birmingham, Ala. city directory, Beauregard and Ben Jack Moore both have addresses in Birmingham. 824 and 822 N. 20th St. They are both shown as Engineers, Central of Georgia Railroad.
I remember "Granny Moore" as being a short little greyhaired woman who wasn't really in her right mind. She lived with her daughter Delia but would come over across the street to my grandmother Ruby's house and Ruby would cook her breakfast every morning although Delia had already fixed her breakfast. This caused some hard feelings between Ruby and her sister Delia. My daddy, Curtis Williamson Young, Jr., remembers Granny Moore dipping snuff. The brand was Railroad Snuff in a white can with a blue locomotive on it. She was tiny in her old age but a stout in her younger day.
Notes from Occupation event: blacksmith/welder
Notes from Occupation event: seamtress
A recollection of Curtis Williamson Young, Jr. According to his mother, Ruby Moore, Bessie Moore had a baby out of wedlock before she married Fred Aiken. Ruby did not remember the father of the baby or what happened to the baby.