and delivered 107 opinions before resigning in May 1881. His successor, Richmond-born James French Patton, a fellow Democrat, had been a former Confederate officer. However, in 1888, fellow Mason County lawyer John W. English would be elected to the West Virginia Supreme Court, then George Poffenbarger. Death and legacy Moore died at Gallipolis Ferry, Mason County, West Virginia in 1904. He is buried at Bruce Chapel cemetery in Mason County. See also Footnotes References Books Periodicals Phi Kappa Psi founders 1831 births 1904 deaths People from Greenbrier County, West Virginia People from Mason County, West Virginia Washington & Jefferson College alumni Union College (New York) alumni University of Virginia alumni Justices of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia 19th-century American judges