The Moore Place Community Remnant of a Time Gone By: Remnant Of A Time Gone By (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780997176001)

Gwendolyn Moore DeLaine: Throughout my life, I have always been passionate about family and the importance of knowing one's history and genealogy. Because of the rich history that I have uncovered about my family, I was inspired to write a book about it. Born in 1956 in Bellamy, Alabama, I am the daughter of Walter and Leola Sanders Moore and the wife of Gerard DeLaine. I have three children and the proud grandmother of eleven grandchildren. For the first four years of my education, I attended Bethel Hill School which was established by my great grandfather Tom Moore, Sr. Bethel Hill School was located in the Moore Place community now listed on the U.S. map as Moore Town in Coatopa, Alabama. I am a 1974 graduate of Livingston High School. I earned an Associate Degree in Secretarial Science in 1977 from the college of business at then- Livingston University, now University of West Alabama. After graduating, I was employed by the Sumter County Commissioners as a clerk in the Tax Assessors office and in 1979; I was employed by the Sumter County School System as secretary to the superintendent. I was the first African American to hold both positions. After twenty six years of employment with the school system, I retired on June 30, 2005. On March 1, 2010, I was employed by Children of the Village Network, Inc. as their intervention and prevention programs director.