Conversations with Fay Rudd Chiles about Rudd/Mooring family (as recorded by C. Avis)
(C. Avis Catalog entry #344)
Moorings came from East Texas. Grandfather Mooring tried a lot of things, and ran a hotel in Temple.
J. C. Rudd married a girl named ____ in Tennessee. He came to Texas and married again. He lived as a bachelor around Lampassus. He had business in Temple.
Mother, Maggie Mooring, got her teacher's certificate at Huntsville with Auntie (Ross Mooring), but on Christmas vacation she met J. C. Rudd. Grandfather Mooring forbad the marriage, but Grandmother Mooring told Maggie to go see priest in San Antonio to discuss it. They were married in San Antonio by the priest.
Grandfather Mooring wouldn't let Grandmother Mooring have anything to do with the couple. When their first child, Fay, came, things were mostly OK.
Aunt Bert (Alberta Mooring), daughter of C. G. Mooring and Francis C. Mooring, was wild. Eventually, something shameful happened and her father, Grandfather Mooring, shot a man. He was on trial and moved to Mineral Wells and established a hotel. Bert was sent to a Galveston Convent.
Charles Gray Mooring and James Seth Mooring walked back to Texas from the Battle of Second Manassas.
Charles and Maggie Mooring had three daughters: Margaret Gray Mooring, Sara Ross Mooring and Alberta
Aunt Sara Ross married J. Thomas Hall. They had a son Martell Hall who married Winifred Andrew. Martell and Winifred had three children: Andrew, Andrena and Richard.