John Benjamin Moore is the only son of Mae Downey and Henry Starks Moore. Mae Downey Moore is buried in Goad Cemetery, New Harmony, Posey County, Indiana. Henry Starks Moore is buried in Koontz Cemetery, Fairfield, Wayne County, Illinois. At the tender age of 4 John's mother passed away. Her death certificate states her cause of death is 1. Lung trouble, 2. Collapse. Ironically enough, John B. passed away at a Tuberculosis Hospital in Bexar, Texas at at the young age of 33. John married Mary Elizabeth Limbert on December 8, 1917 in Murphysboro, Jackson County, Illinois. John and Mary had 4 daughters; Helen, Mary Elizabeth, Grace, and Ella Mae. John and Mary suffered the loss of young Mary Elizabeth when she caught Scarlet fever in 1926. Few photos of John survive but as a toddler he was photographed as a beautiful, curly headed, bright baby. The last photograph taken of him was taken while he was in the TB ward in Texas. It shows a man who is older than his years, gaunt and saddened by the outcome of his life. His daughters remember him as a kind, gentle man who left them much too soon. John would never know the events that would take place in his treasured family after his death. Mary became depressed and never recovered. She would later ingest strychnine better known as rat poison. In her depression she sent her oldest daughter, Helen, to the store to purchase her means of suicide. Ella being just a toddler was being rocked by her mother when Mary left this earth. Ella remembered for the rest of her days trying to wake her Momma up by pounding on her chest. Helen never recovered from the guilt she carried as a child that she somehow had a hand in her mothers death. The remaining three daughters lived with family members after their parents death, first their Limbert grandparents, then their Uncle William Limbert. As their older family members passed soon after acquiring the girls they were eventually placed in foster care. Helen being oldest was discharged at 17. She worked hard to be able to take her sisters home with her. Mimmiee (Helen) said that family members wanted to take them but they would have separated them. The girls chose to stay together rather be apart. The foster parents were kind and generous to Ella and Grace after their sisters departure. Grace attended Nursing School in St. Louis, MO after being encouraged by her foster home parents who also believed in her so much they paid for her instruction. John Benjamin Moore's death tragically impacted his family for many years to come. However; these three brave, beautiful and loving young girls became the role models of a family that adored them. They all eventually married men that seemed to have been hand picked from heaven. Their beauty shines through in those that are left behind. To have met any of them in later life a person should have never known the sadness that struck them down as young girls because they were all loving, beautiful inside as well as out, and focused on the good rather than the bad. They truly are an example to follow.