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Article: Moor(e) hunted down father's killer: 4 years looking for murderer to be part of Moore family history book.
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- Decatur Daily (Decatur, AL)
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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Byline: Deangelo McDaniel
Jun. 1--HARTSELLE -- Sometime shortly after the Civil War, a teenage Alabama boy went west looking for his father's killer.
Joseph Moor spent four years riding the cattle trails of Texas before finding Jeff Darter, the man he believed ambushed and murdered his aging father in 1864.
In the middle of the night, Moor cut Darter's throat, got on his horse and rode back to Alabama.
Moor never told family members where he had been or about his actions until he was on his deathbed in January 1937.
The story of his deed is one of the tales Les Hornbuckle and Geraldine Locke plan to write in their history book ...