"The executors of the Moore estate sold the furnishings and other contents of the old house to an antique dealer. What he left was swept out into the yard and burned--a tragic loss."
The above words are taken out of a book about Moores Hill College in Moores Hill, Indiana. John C. Moore, the founder of the college, was a brother to my ancestor, Levin S. Moore. Which means that they shared the same mother and father.
Reading this sentence on the page above made me just about cry. The parents that they shared, Adam and Judith Moore, travelled from Maryland to Indiana in 1818 and settled the town that bares their name. I have read in other books that Adam was a well-read man and had a large library of books he would share with his friends and neighbors.
This tells me that John, I am sure, probably had a large collection of his father's books. He might have even had a journal or personal writings of his father. To read that much of it was "swept out into the yard and burned"- just makes me burn!!!
I would love to go back in time and prevent that craziness! The sad thing is that this was probably fairly common and I am sure that many of you have probably faced something like this also.
Do any of you have stories like this that just make you wanna cry? Tell them to the rest of us...maybe we can have one gigantic cryfest and get it out of our system. Seriously, I would love to hear if you have stories like this also.
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