This farm was purchased by William Price Moore in 1902, after moving his wife, Lucy Ellen, and six children, Lena, Chester, Myrtle, Fletcher, Willie and Gertie Pearl, from Sheridan, Arkansas in 1901. They arrived in Corsicana, Texas by way of covered wagon, but rode the train into Frost, Texas to meet his uncle, Wesley Moore, who had told him of the good farming opportunities in Texas. Sadly, his
wife Lucy passed away on the homestead on April 14, 1909, with nine children left behind to raise, the youngest girl, Ocie, only 21 months old. Price had his stepmother, Artemisa, come to live with him, but she passed away soon after in 1911. However, in 1922, his third oldest daughter, Gertie Pearl, agreed to buy the farm from him with the first payment of $100.00 to be paid on January 1, 1923. However, William Price Passed away on October 3 of that same year, leaving the farm to Gertie in his passing. Gertie Pearl then married Charles Cary Adams on June 21, 1928, and they lived and raised their three children on the farm until Charles Cary passed away on October 28, 1952. Her older daughter, Joyce, had married Robert Coolbaugh in Hillsboro and then moved to California soon after where they were both involve in an motocycle accident. Robert did not survive. Her son, William Charles, had married that February to Marcell Johnson and moved to Dallas. Gertie then moved her youngest daughter, Lucy Ann, and herself into the town of Frost. At some point she sold the original house that her father had built. No one knows what happened to that house, but that it had possibly burned or was moved to Navarro Mills lake? However, Ocie's daughter, Bettye, had described the house as having three bedrooms, a living room with a piano, dining room, kitchen, and stairs in the hallway that went upstairs to one large room. The Moore-Adams farm still remains in the family today in Gertie Pearl's name. The older residents of Frost remember the Moore and Adams' families and of their strong Christian faith and service to the McCord/Frost United Methodist Church. If anyone has any other information to add or pictures, please do so. This page is dedicated to our family's heritage and memory. This is a great way to share memories and information with all family members.
