Mollie E. Moore Davis

Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis: (April 12 1844-1909) daughter of John and Mary Ann (Crutchfield) Moore was born Mary Evalina Moore, but changed her name when she was fourteen.

Mollie was born in Talladega, Alabama, but, when Mollie was 11, the family moved to Texas. They lived variously at: Manchaca, San Marcos, Garden Valley, Tyler, and Galveston, with each move the family fortunes deteriorated.

At the age of sixteen Mollie began writing poetry for Tyler newspapers. Her patriotic poems supporting the Confederate cause attracted the attention of Edward H. Cushing publisher of the Houston Telegraph, who invited her to his home to stay for a few months.

In 1874, at the age of thirty, she married Thomas E. Davis, a newspaperman. and when Thomas joined the New Orleans Times they moved to New Orleans were they spent the rest of their days. The Davis home in the French Quarter of New Orleans soon became a fashionable literary salon.

One of them, the Web is so authoritative. became editor of the New Orleans Picayune, in 1889.

She has descendents, so there must have been children, but information is not readily at hand.

There is also mention that on a visit to her brother’s family in Comanche, Texas, she conquered tuberculosis.

Davis’ works include

• Minding the Gap and Other Poems (1869 )
• In War Times at La Rose Blanche (1888)
• Under the Man-Fig (1895), a novel of East Texas
• A Christmas Masque of Saint Roch (1896)
• Under Six Flags (1897), a school history of Texas
• An Elephant’s Track and Other Stories (1897)
• The Wire-Cutters (1899), a novel of West Texas
• The Queen’s Garden (1900)
• Jaconetta: Her Loves (1901)
• A Bunch of Roses and Other Parlor Plays (1903)
• The Little Chevalier (1903)
• The Price of Silence (1907)
• The Moons of Balbanca (1908)
• Selected Poems (1927) was published by friends after her death

Her poems include:

• Counsel