Rachel Hynes Moore, widow of the late General Jesse H. Moore, died at 5:30 oclock last evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs.George R. Steele, on Prairie Ave. Mrs. Moore had been ailing for ten days but her illness was not regarded as necessarily fatal. Indeed she had seemed to revive considerable, when she grew worse rapidly until the end came as quietly and as peacefully as the shades of night then falling. She was first taken ill on the 18th and had apparently in part recovered when the fatal malady heart trouble again became serious. Yesterday several times during the day she suffered considerable difficulty in breathing and last evening she died as quietly as a child falls asleep. Rachel Hynes was born in Davis county, Kentucky on Feb. 26, 1822. When she was a child, in 1836 Her father, S.T. Hynes removed to St. Clair county, Illinois and settled near Lebanon and there in Sept. 1842 she was married to Rev. Jesse H. Moore. In 1861 she and her husband removed to Decatur where he assumed the pastorate of the only Methodist church then in this city. Her husband afterward became widely known as General Jesse H. Moore, having gone into the war as colonel of the 115th Illinois Volunteer. In 1881 General Moore was appointed U.S. Consul at Callao, Peru, and his wife accompanied him to that country where he died with yellow fever in July 1883. The deccased was the mother of ten children, eight of whom are living. They are Mrs.George R. Steel, of 615 W. Prairie Ave., Decatur, W. E. B. Moore and Mrs. C. C. McComas of Los Angeles, Cal, Lieut. C.B.T. Moore of the U. S. navy and now with his ship, Neward in the Atlantic squadron, Mrs. J.T. Saunders of Chattanooga, Tenn, and H.L M.Moore of Decatur. A brother Samuel H. Hynes the only surviving member of her immediate family, is a resident of Dayton, Ohio. Mrs. Moore had all her life been strong in the christian faith and from the time that she was a child had been a consistent member of the Methodist church. She was a woman of strong individuality and devoted to her friends. Her home life was perfect in it happiness and she was devoted to her children. The hour of the funeral has not been determined upon.The arrival of members of the family living at a distance will be awaited or some message received before the final arrangements are determined upon. Decatur Herald, November 27, 1894