MOORING, Katie Bell

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Katie Bell Mooring (pictured at left) was the daughter of Sallie Trexle r and James Franklin Mooring. According to her nephew:
Kate was the most colorful of the Moorings. She cursed like a sailor, w ould kick any man's butt who needed it, and wasn't past taking a nip fo r her health. And she drove her old pick-up as fast as it would go on t hose gravel roads. And work! She could pitch hay, drive a tractor, bu lldog a hog or yearling, and split wood with the best of them.
Everybody in Witton was afraid of her, uncluding her husband, Uncle Gus . She got wind one time that Gus was keeping up a woman at the Crow fa rm, about a mile way.
She went down there with a pistol, helped that old girl pack her bags, t ook her to a crossroads, and told her to be on the next bus to Memphis o r she would shortly be attending her own funeral.
Then she went home and told Uncle Gus that if he wanted to be famous, t hen just keep seeing other women and she would make him the only ball-l ess farmer in Mississippi County.
An era died with her.

Katie married John Augustus (Gus) McCLENDON, son of Dr. Joel Wiley McCLENDON and Rebecca Jane WALL. (John Augustus (Gus) McCLENDON was born in 1882 in Marianna, Lee Co., Arkansas and died on 2 Jun 1970 in Tyronza Arkansas.)

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