May-Al (Moss) Moore (1879−1959) was an outstanding weaver, who set up a weaving school and taught others her trade. She even taught modern Cherokee Indians weaving and crafts while living among them for five years in a school dorm-like building. Her husband, A. G. Moore, would commute by wagon on weekends delivering supplies to her and the Natives. During the Depression and the New Deal Era in the 1930s and early 1940s, the U.S. Government employed her to lead a program for making mattresses. All her neighbors remembered her as being an avid fisher and a lucky one. According to those who fished with her, even if they threw their lines and bait next hers, she was always the one who got the bite!
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