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10. ft 11. Ann Heritage Bright (Annie) was born in December, l86i<, and was only eleven years old when her mother, Julia Mitchell Bright, died in 1875.
Frank Ernest Moore was born in October, 185?, in Hancock County, Mississippi. He probably grew up there, as is indicated by the following. His father, George Washington Moore, was appointed Treasurer of Hancock County in October of 1858, i860, 186?, and l86Ii, apparently two-year terms. (See page ?79, Secretary of State Registry of Commissions, 1858-I86h,) (By the way, in the archives in Jackson, Mississippi, in the Civil Var records, there are 16 men by th e name of George W., or G. W, Moore, none from Hancock County, hut from other counties in Mississippi, who fought for the Confederacy. So it is easy to follow the track of the wrong	one.) When	he was eleven, Frank Moore is not	listed in	the 1870
census -under	the name of	Moore, and neither is his father.	However,	in a letter
to Annie Bright he says, "...we have known one another all our lives and have known one another's parents..." And he was there in iRRO, a 20-year-old,
"hauling lumber," according to the census.
Tn 1882 Frank was in Poplarville, Mississippi, helping to put up a plan mg mill. Since he was still mailing letters from there in 1881[, he probably was working in this sawmill. His main occupations throughout adulthood were working in sawmills or piloting riverboats.
The compiler is in possession of many of Frank Moore's old letters. The 188? and l88h letters to "Miss Nannie Bright" or "Miss Annie H. Bright" show that she was	living in "Gainesville, at Napoleon" (Mississippi) with	her father,
George Henry	Bright, and	her brother Johnny. According to	addresses	on some of
the envelopes, Annie sometimes went to visit her Aunt Susan (Mrs. Thomas Leonard) in Fearlington. Her sister Brana (Love) had married and moved to Texas by l88ii.
When Frank Moore heard that Annie was thinking of moving to Texas, he asked her not to go and began a courtship through letters and visits. He won her over, and on July 8, 188L, they were married in the Leonard home in Pear'lington.
There are more interesting letters written to Annie by Frank after their marriage, when he was away from home on his job as a riverboat pilot on the Pearl River. Judging by these letters, their home until near the end 1885 was in Napoleon or Gainesville. In the fall of 1885, Frank had arranged to rent a house in Pattersonville, Louisiana, with a wash woman living nearby.
By February, 1886, they had moved in.
Tn May of 189).| they were living in Poplarville, Mississippi, and later moved to Hickory, Mississippi, ?
Annie and Frank had eight children, of whom twins died at birth and one died during the first year. The children who lived were KLeanor (Lena), Medora, (Dora), George, Funice, and Ruby. ^Jhen the oldest child was eleven and the youngest ten months old, Annie died, on February 7, 1897. She was buried in Hickory. (Her grave, with slab which apparently once contained a picture of her, and the headstone can still be found in the cemetery in Hickory in 19&7, although the headstone is much pitted from having lain fallen **or years.)
Because Frank Moore worked away from home so much, after Annie's death the children were scattered among different aunts at first. Later they attended boarding school in Poplarville, where they were given instruction and love by Professor and Mrs. Thames, as revealed in letters from the children to their "Papa." In the summer, Frank Moore would rent a house so the children could "come home,"
Frank Moore's last work for pay was as a mill-wright and foreman in a pine mill, and work on a riverboat at Demopolis, Alabama, for a short time.
Tn the 1920?s and 1930's he lived with his daughters Dora Hart, TSbnice Pickering, and Lena Langston and their families, with visits back and forth to the others when he was living with one.
Frank Moore died 011 December 23} 1?36, while living with Lena Langston in Starkville, Mississippi, where he is buried.