George Washington Moore was born on December 3, 1942 in Starkville Mississippi to Ben Moore and Angeline Dancer. His father was born in 1917 in Lowndes County, Mississippi and died in September of 1969 in Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi. His mother was born on January 21, 1923 to Henry Dancer and Addie Lee Johnson. Angeline had four brothers and three sisters. She died on December 10, 1982 at the age of 59. Ben Moore had ten children with his wife, four boys and six girls. George grew up with his family and went to school in Starkville in the Hickory Grove school district. All of Ben Moore and Angelina Moore’s children were born in Oktibbeha County, and they lived in the rural area. After Ben Moore and Angeline split apart, Angeline remarried and had another child, a little girl, which would be George’s half-sister. George married on June 3, 1963, in Columbus, Mississippi and had three girls during his marriage. He died as a young father who did not get the chance to watch his daughters grow up.