Jessie Moore

Class of
1937
Jessie Moore

Jessie Moore

“Your face has given me a message of Old Indian Territory – the glory of her days, a breath of the past from across the river of Lethe – of sorrow, and joy, and sweet life.”
Jessie Moore, from her poem

Biography

Jessie Elizabeth Randolph Moore was born in Panola County in the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma in 1871. Her mother’s family came with the Chickasaws to Indian Territory in 1837, and her father was a successful cattleman who established their home and ranch in the White Bead Hill region north of the Washita in Pontotoc County. Mrs. Moore was sent to an academy in Denison, Texas, and later attended Kidd-Key College in Sherman, Texas. She taught school for one year and was married in 1889. In 1914, she was appointed Deputy Supreme Court Clerk in Oklahoma City, studied law, and was admitted to the Bar in 1923. The following year she was appointed Assistant Commissioner of Charities and Corrections for Oklahoma and, during the Great Depression, served as the director of the Women’s Division of Emergency Relief in Oklahoma County. Mrs. Moore also played a vital role in gathering data and preserving the history of Oklahoma in her work with the Oklahoma Historical Society.

Fun fact

In 1954, Jessie Moore served as an official representative of the Chickasaw Nation in ceremonies in Memphis, Tennessee, to dedicate a newly formed Chickasaw wing of the United States Air Force.

Oklahoma connections

Moore was born in Oklahoma at old Panola County in the Chickasaw Nation.

Hometown

Wayne

Profession

Attorney

Presenter

Born

1871

Died

1956
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