Conversation with Mildred Rudd Ragsdale about Moorings(as recorded by C. Avis)
[C. Avis Catalog entry #112]
<The 'Grandfather Mooring' mentioned below was Charles Gray Little Mooring father of Ross, Margaret (Mildred's mother), and Alberta (Bert) >
"Auntie" was Ross Mooring Hall, the mother of Martel Hall.
Grandfather Mooring had a hotel in Temple. His daughter Bert (Aunt Bert) was 12 or 13 when a salesman molested her in a room of her father's hotel. Grandfather Mooring was tried for killing the man, but was acquitted. Bert went to a Catholic convent in Galveston. Her first husband was Pat Moran (Irish), who died of TB in New Mexico. She became a saleswoman and married Wm. Thurston. She died of cancer in New Orleans.
Mildred later said that Grandfather Mooring didn't kill the man, only shot him. Then Grandfather Mooring moved to Mineral Wells, Texas where he opened a small hotel-boarding house.