Mr Moore aside from his activies in state and tribal affairs,has devoted his life to stockraising and overseeing of his vast farm interests-Spiro.
His Great-Grandfather Moncrief was tragically killed and his body burned at the time of a negro uprising with occurred near Skullyville about 1860or1861.This uprising was instigated by an overseer,in the employ
of Mr {Sampson}Moncrief,who in reality was a Northern Sympathizer.After the uprising with its tragic results,the overseer took the slaves out of the Choctaw Nation,disposed of them and never returned.
In another uprising which occurred about the same time,three brothers Joesph,Robert,and Dave Hall,were burtally murdered by the slaves owned by them,under the leadership of another faithless overseer employed by the Hall family.
However in this case the traitorous overseer was in turn by one a surviving brother who was assisted by one of the slaves who heroicially refused to join in the uprising.
During the turbulent years of the civil war many of the families who owned slaves and plantations in Skullyville Co.went as refugrees to Doaksville,and in some instances to Clarksville,Texas,taking the slaves with them.
At the close of Civil War,the negroes who had been scattered in the confusing conditions attendant on the prosecution of the war,in many instances returned to homes of former owners and insisted on being cared for in the same manner as that which they had been cared for before their freedom.
It is significant that most if not all,of the slaves in all the area north of the Kiamichi Mountains and south of the Ark River were owned by plantation owners having prosscessions in the Ark. and Poteau bottoms and these slaves were owned in main by inter-married white or mixed blood Indians--while the full bloods
Indians selected home sites on vast prairies where game was more abundance and plentiful.