[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 10 (Friday, January 25, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E69-E70]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    IN CELEBRATION OF MRS. LILLIE BELL CARSON MOORE'S 100TH BIRTHDAY

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                      HON. SANFORD D. BISHOP, JR.

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, January 25, 2013

  Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to extend my 
sincerest congratulations and Happy Birthday wishes to Mrs. Lillie Bell 
Carson Moore, who celebrated her 100th birthday on Wednesday, January 
2, 2013. She will be honored with a birthday celebration on Sunday, 
January 27, 2013, at 11:30 a.m. at Shady Grove Baptist Church in 
Richland, Georgia.
  Known as ``Shug,'' Mrs. Moore was born in Brooklyn, Georgia on 
January 2, 1913. She is the fifth of 23 siblings.
  At an early age, Mrs. Moore's family moved from Stewart County to the 
Seminole Community in Webster County, where her father purchased land 
for the family. No stranger to hard work, Mrs. Moore would toil in the 
fields of the farm from dawn until dusk. She also maintained a garden 
and canned and preserved food for her family.
  Mrs. Moore joined Shady Grove Baptist Church as a young girl and was 
educated by night in the sanctuary of the church. They were not allowed 
to attend school during the day as there was always farm work to be 
done. Mrs. Moore loved to praise the Lord through song and she added 
her voice to the choir in 1973.
  Mrs. Moore married John Moore and gave birth to five children: 
Charlie, Fannie Mae, Annie, Jessie and Leroy. She has seven 
grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.
  Mrs. Moore was known as the first African-American woman in the area 
to drive a Model T car. Having lived under the administration of 
seventeen United States presidents, her greatest joy was to live long 
enough to see the first African-American president elected. She well 
remembers a time when she was not allowed

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to vote and now thoroughly enjoys exercising that precious right. She 
is proud that her hands, which once picked cotton, aided in picking the 
first African-American president, not just once, but twice. She has 
always taught others to ``treat people the way you want to be treated, 
no matter what color they are.''
  George Washington Carver once said, ``How far you go in life depends 
on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, 
sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong 
because someday in your life you will have been all of these.'' Mrs. 
Moore has advanced far in life because she never forgot these lessons 
and always kept God first.
  The race of life isn't given to the swift or to the strong, but to 
those who endure until the end. Mrs. Moore has run the race of life 
with grace and dignity and God has blessed her over her lifetime.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me today in paying tribute 
to an outstanding citizen and woman of faith, Mrs. Lillie Bell ``Shug'' 
Carson Moore, as she, her family and the congregation of Shady Grove 
Baptist Church prepare to celebrate her 100th birthday.

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