until the boys, Dan, Brian, and John became old enough to go to camp, and then I believe she and Uncle Dan bought the house where Brian now stays; in Hendersonville so they could be near the boys who were in a camp near Chimney Rock.
Aunt Annie Sample came almost every other summer too. Aunt Annle was a very striking looking woman. She had married Uncle Adrian Sample who grew up in the Hopewell area, and went to Davidson College while some of the four Moore boys were there. I thought Papa married them -- no, it was Uncle Sam who married them In December 1900. I remember a funny situation which developed as Adrian, Margaret and Dick got old o to play with the youngsters of their own age outside the home. The cousin, while glad to get away from Florida because the sand flies were so bad in those days down there, were not at all happy over being separated from their friends. Buddy (Adrian) and the others began teasing me about living in "tater hill", which was what they called Taylorsville. I had a hard time defending the good name of Taylorsville, until Ring Lardner - a distant cousin I suppose, of ours -- wrote an article in The Saturday Evening Post., which came out some time before they went home. In the article in which he said there wasn't much wrong, but that someone should change the name of Fort Pierce by exchanging the first letters of the two words and making the name Fort Pierce". After that unexpected support I only had to remind them of this new name for their how town to quiet any further taunts about living In "Tater Hill".
Aunt Mary was there nearly every summers, at least when Margaret and Sam were young. Aunt Mary and Uncle Tom here a sweet couple and Aunt Mary, bless her heart, she was the champion defender of the Moores. She would just not let anyone say anything which was critical of her connections. It was a frequent happening that during the homecomings that the group she was in would look around to see who was not there at the moment then with a wink, unseen by Aunt Mary, to the others, set out to say something criticizing the member of the family not present. Just as soon as this took place, Aunt Mary would come in quick defense, then everyone would laugh for after all whatever was said was not in a truly critical sense but just to bait Aunt Mary to see what she would say. Everyone appreciated Aunt Marv's warm defense for they knew if, while they here absent, someone tried to say anything unkind, they had a real champion in Aunt Mary. Now lest anyone might get a mistaken idea that the Moores were critical of each other, let me say that I never knew of any real differences among the aunts and uncles and this includes the ones who married into this Moore clan. I am sure if there was any unkind feeling in the group, I would have been aware of it. It was a rather widely mixed group and all the crowd had a happy