A Historical Column From The Fayette County Historical Commission
John Henry Moore was born in Tennessee in 1800 to Armistead and Tabitha Bowen Moore. He attended school in Lebanon, Tennessee and then attended Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.
By 1821, Moore was here to stay and was one of Stephen F.Austin’s “Old Three Hundred” settlers. Almost immediately he started gaining the experience that would make him one of the most famed Indian fighters in…