Ernest Alonzo Moran, Sr.

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Living at the Bethesda Orphan Asylum in Chatham County, Georgia by age 12 (1900). in 1910, during the next census, he was living with the Hyser family in Bibb County, GA.

Obituary published in The Ludowici News, Mar 1972: E. A. Moran Died Last Week: Ernest A. Moran died Tuesday night, March 21, in the Tuttle United States Hospital in Savannah after a short illness. The retired Baldwin County native was a resident of Savannah for many years, but for the last thirty-eight years he had made his home in the Elim community of Long county, where he was a member of Elim Baptist Church, a former superintendent of the Sunday School and a deacon and had served his church in numerous capacities. The funeral was held Thursday afternoon at two o’clock at Elim church with the pastor, Rev. W. O. Gosnell and the former pastor, the Rev. M. A. Murray of Ludowici, officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery. Nesmith-Harrison Funeral Home of Jesup was in charge. Active pallbearers were, Emerson Shaw, Walton Floyd, Tommy Way, Clyde Way, Shirley Middleton, Marcus Ray, and Russell Wells. Honorary pallbearers were Percy Brannen, Harry Chapman, Frank Coleman, Lloyd Chapman, Clyde L. Chapman, Mrs. Helen W. Coxon, Albert Coleman, Herbert Dykes, Charles Everett, Harley Freeman, Van Floyd, Paul Fulton, Gilbert Fitzgerald, James Wilkinson, C. C. Wilkinson, Charles Gaskin, Mallie Golden, Ernest Groover, Clyde Gordon, Willis Howard, Shelby Middleton, Burl Mobley, Richard Phillips, Ormand Ray, Doyle Raulerson, Marcus Smith, Dowse Smith, Robert Stevens, Garland Smith and Millen Ray.

Mr. Moran is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Sittle of Ludowici; a son, Ernest A. Moran, Jr., of Huntsville, AL, and nine grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren.