LOCAL BOY DOES WELL. Thomas Moore is generally credited with being the first physician in Laurens County. He made his first appearance in the legal records in 1818 and married Elizabeth McCall, daughter of Surveyor General Thomas McCall in 1819. Thomas Moore went on to serve as the third Clerk of Laurens Superior Court. Thomas Moore's son by his first wife was James Seaborn Moore. James Moore entered West Point Military Academy in 1825 and graduated in July of 1829. Educated as a physician, James Moore resigned his commission later in the year and returned to Dublin to practice medicine. Dr. James Moore left Dublin and lived the last three decades of his life in Alabama, where he died on July 25, 1869. Moore graduated 42nd in his class. You might remember the number two man - a young Virginian, Robert E. Lee. Another of Moore's classmate was Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, C.S.A.. Graduating the year before Dr. Moore was a young Mississippi cadet by the name of Jefferson Davis. "Register of Graduates, U.S. Military Academy, 1962, p. 177."
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