George Fleming Moore (1822-1883) Texas Supreme Court, George
Fleming Moore, the seventh son of well-to-do planters, was born
in Elbert County, Georgia on July 17, 1822. He grew up in
Alabama where, as a child he was acquainted with Oran M.
Roberts. Moore attended the University of Alabama and the
University of Virginia, but did not graduate from either
institution. In 1842 he undertook the study of law in Talladega,
Alabama, and was licensed to practice in 1844. In 1846 Moore
moved to Crockett, Texas, where he practiced law for several
years before returning to Alabama to marry. He returned to Texas
in 1854, spending two years in Austin before moving to
Nacogdoches in 1856, where he began a law practice with Richard
S. Walker. Moore and Walker were appointed State Reporters in
1858, and prepared the twenty-second, twenty-third, and twenty-
fourth Texas Reports (1860-61). Moore served briefly as a
colonel in the Texas cavalry during the Civil War before being
elected an associate justice of the supreme court in