Bordering the sepulchral plot was a profusion of floral emblems and spray, more generous tributes than reaches the last resting place of most mankind, and these were only a smalll part of such offerings which descended on the grieving family from friends and associates of Jock Moore in many part of the United States and Canada. In solemn stride scores of miners' leaders and representatives from most of the butuminous and anthracite fields passed the bier, each laying a sprig of green on the steel cassion which contained the casket of red walnut and copper.

John Moore of the miners had passed on to eternity leaving a void in the hearts of thousands who knew him well. And to know him was to admire, esteem and love him. Of exceptional intellectual scope and understanding, radiating good-natured humane indulgence for the frailties of others, possessing great magnetism and cheery good-fellowship, Jock Moore's was an outstanding character among red-blooded men. His was the friendship of many coal producers in many fields. His friends among his own people were legion, and his enemies, if any existed, were negligible.

Tributes beautiful and eloquent were paid him in services in the homely Congregational church near the Moore home in Studer avenue. There was a vested choir and the minister of the church bestowed fitting words upon the dead and divine solace to his mourners. President Lee Hall of the Ohio miners pronounced a sincere and impressive eulogy over the bier, President John L. Lewis of the Miners International Union voiced in rounded periods a most eloquent tribute to John Moore, his co-official and friend. He spoke of how the historians of the future would relate the rise of the labor movement in the latter part of the nineteenth century as a great humanitarian and uplifing influence with John Moore as one of its early crusaders. He spoke of him as a leader, a legislative emissary and a man of marked achievements and worth. It was all most impressive. In attendance were many well-known coal operators, state governors, congressmen, legislators, many prominent in the miners unio and grieving sympathetic neighbors, all testing the capacity of the church edifice. Piled high from the floor and over the entire broad expanse of the plpit side of the church auditorium and back of the rostrum were great floral embankments telling their message of condolence of many from far and wide and who high and humble in civic, social, industrial and political life. It was indeed a scene rare in obsequies.

John Moore was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, the 12th of October, 1871. As a lad of 12 he came to America, the family settling in Southern Ohio. He was a ruged energetic youngster and soon took his place in the mines of that region. He rose rapidly in the affairs of the union from the local body through administrative offcies in the sub district and then to the presidence of the Ohio state organization of miners. During most of these years he lived in Rendville and for a time was mayor of this mining town, which was founded by Colonel W. P. Rend, a pioneer in Ohio, Indiana and the Pittsburgh district. John Moore served as president of the Hocking miners from April, 1905 to April 1910, when he became vice-president of the state organization, succeeding to the presidency June 15, 1911, when President Dennis H. Sullivan retired to become a member of the Ohio Board of Arbitration. The Moores moved to Columbus after Jock became president of the Ohio miners in which office he served for ten years, one of the longest records of any district president in the organization.. In this position he never had consquential opposition for reelection. He reitred from this office in 1920 in favor of his friend, Lee Hall, the district vice-president. John Moore then became a special representative of the miners internation al officials and legislative agent at Washington, D. C.. Here he enjoyed the welcome, consideration and confidence of many who had risen high in the nation's affairs, including the late President Harding and his advisors.

In 1914 as president of the Ohio miners, to Moore fell the onerous duty of conducting the stubborn fight to establish the mine-run system in the state, which was the first militant move of nearly twenty years to make this system country-wide. He went through this ordeal without permanently estranging the operators who were conscientiously fighting the changes as imperiling their markets dependent on a clean lumpy quality of coal. The fight was won by Moore and his constituents in the face of much bitterness and with very litttle outside support for the miners. Late in 1916 and 1917 when the then administration of the miners International union was diffident and intolerant of the wage bonuses being paid in those rare prosperous days of the industry---the administration regarding the bonus practice as an abrogation of the wage contract--Moore led the movement which brought about a special wage conference in New York in April, 1917, and for the first time a substantial voluntary wage advance within the period of the contract. And this was followed by establishing the 5-dollar wage basis the same fall, with the assent of the Federal administration and Dr. H. A. Garfield, President Wilson's World War fuel administrator.

Jock Moore was held in respect and esteem by leaders of all faction in the miners union since the days of John Mitchell, who was a close friend, and Michael D. Ratchford, Phil. H. Penna and John McBride of those earlier turbulent days of the United Mine Workers. For many years Moore was one of the eight delegates elected by the entire membership to represent the miners in the annual conventions of the American Federation of Labor. The last Federation convention in Portland, Oregon, he was unable to attend, as the ravages of his fatal illness with dread malignant cancer was already placing the hand of death upo him. He has been president of the Ohio Federation of Labor since 1918.

He was a 32nd degree Mason, member of Scioto Consistory, Scottish Rite; Alladin Temple of Shriners, the Elks, the Knight of Pythias, the Order of Red Men and the Eagles. His widow, and two daughters and four sons, survive him. The eldest daughter and son are married and each have a young son, called Jock, to keep alive the familiar name by which his hordes of friends hailed their father.