CA167

Mooring Family Cemetery
(C. Avis Catalog Entry #167)

Location:  Grimes County, Texas
Starting at Shiro, Texas, go west 1/2 mile from 
center of town, take right on dirt road; go north on road and 
east when it turns; stop when road turns north again; 
cemetery is about 1/2 mile east of this spot.
       

L. S. MOORING 
born: 2-12-1815   died: 10-19-1875
    Dearest father thou hast left us
    Here thy loss we deeply feel
    But 'tis God that hath bereft us
    He can all our sorrow heal
    
Sallie - wife of L. S. Mooring
born:  10-17-1816    died:  8-9-1892
    Mother thou hast from us flown
    To the regions far above
    We to thee erect this stone
    Consecrated by our love
    
Virginia B. Mooring
born: 11-24-1855    died:  11-22-1919
    Come ye blessed
    
    Sleep on sister, thy work is done
    Jesus has come and borne thee home
    
Althea Mooring
born:  10-15-1853    died:  1-29-1917
    Asleep in Jesus
    
    Come to a bright home
    Where grief cannot come
    
Mary Susan Mooring
born:  11-10-1834    died:  1-21-1897
    Rest in peace thou gentle spirit throned above
    Souls like time with God inherit life and love
    
Maggie E. Mooring
born:  4-11-1838    died:  12-30-1892
    She followed virtue as her truest guide
    Lived as a Christian - as a Christian died
    
Susan Edwinnie Rigby
born:  (stone broken here)    died:  10-6-1880
    A little flower of love that blossomed but to die
    Transplanted now above to bloom with God on high