{"id":2077,"date":"2024-12-01T21:27:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T03:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2025-08-22T19:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:48:40","slug":"moran-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/moran-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Moran Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Moran Cemetery
AKA Stewart Cemetery
Empire Township, Section 28
Andrew County, Missouri<\/h3>\n

Directions: From Savannah, east on Hwy. E 3.5 miles to D. North on D 4.3 miles to driveway to farm. Cemetery is on private property. Drive 0.1 mile east onto property to a path going north through the alfalfa field. Drive 0.1 mile north right to the cemetery. Accessible only in good weather, preferably after alfalfa has been cut.<\/p>\n

Notes: This was a family cemetery, used mainly in the 1870s. Several of the people with surnames other than “Moran” were living with the Moran family at some time.<\/p>\n

Credits: These pictures were taken by Betty Halvorsen, 2006. (c)THE Transcriptions (Taylor, Halvorsen, Eshelman).<\/p>\n

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Rows<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Row<\/th>\nDirection of Row<\/th>\nPhotograph(s)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n 07-09 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n 10-13 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3 <\/td>\n North to south <\/td>\n 13-36 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4 <\/td>\n South to north <\/td>\n 27-50 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

* Indicates African-Americans
+ Indicates obituary available<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name<\/th>\nInscription<\/th>\nPhotograph(s)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Moran Cemetery <\/td>\n <\/td>\n 01<\/a> 02<\/a> 03<\/a> 04<\/a> 05<\/a> 06<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brumfield, Rachel* <\/td>\n Rachel Brumfield
Aged about 80 years <\/td>\n		 07<\/a> 08<\/a> 09<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dawes, Mary A.+ <\/td>\n Mary A. Dawes
Died Feb. 19, 1874
Aged 36 yrs 9 m’s 11 d’s <\/td>\n		 42<\/a> 43<\/a> 48<\/a> 47<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Long, infant <\/td>\n Infant son of J. H. & M. J. Long
Died June 9, 1871
aged 6 weeks <\/td>\n		 10<\/a> 11<\/a> 12<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moran, Catharine A <\/td>\n Catharin[e A.]
wife of David Mor[an]
Born Feb 29, … [stone broken]
David M[oran]
Jan. 9, 1…
Died May 18, 1…
70 Yr’s 2 M & 19 Ds <\/td>\n		 25<\/a> 26<\/a> 27<\/a> 29<\/a> 34<\/a> 30<\/a> 36<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moran, David L.+ <\/td>\n David L. Moran
Died Feb. 23, 1903
Aged 43 Y 6 M 9 D
We miss thy kind and willing hand,
Thy fond and earnest care,
Our home is dark without thee, Dave,
We miss thee everywhere. <\/td>\n		 14<\/a> 15<\/a> 16<\/a> 17<\/a> 18<\/a> 19<\/a> 20<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moran, Elizabeth <\/td>\n Elizabeth Moran
Born July 16, 1783
Died July 30, 1871 <\/td>\n		 23<\/a> 24<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moran, S. G. <\/td>\n Gone Home
S. G. Moran
Died April 20, 1870
Aged 51 Yrs 17 Ds <\/td>\n		 21<\/a> 22<\/a> 41<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shearer, infant <\/td>\n [stone broken]
J. M. & H. Shearer
Died Jan. 14, 1874 <\/td>\n		 31<\/a> 32<\/a> 33<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tanner, William <\/td>\n Gone Home
Wm. Tanner
Born in Fayette Co. Ky.
Dec. 18, 1796
Died Nov. 18, 1877 <\/td>\n		 38<\/a> 39<\/a> 40<\/a> 46<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
unknown <\/td>\n <\/td>\n 37<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
unknown fragment <\/td>\n … And … rowin… <\/td>\n 13<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
unknown, Elizabeth <\/td>\n [spelled in marbles]
Elizabeth
died Se… [stone damaged] <\/td>\n		 49<\/a> 50<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wood, Mary <\/td>\n To the Memory of [Mar]y W[ood]
[stone broken] <\/td>\n		 35<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Also reportedly buried here, but no tombstones found in 2006:<\/p>\n

Buhr, Ferdinand
Buhr, Sarah (Moran)
Dawes, Emma J.
Dick, Charles
Dick, Helena
Dick, Paul Allen
Hess, Mary*
Moran, David
Moran, Martha (Logan)
Smith, Elizabeth Jane (Wiley)
Vaughn, Almora (Moran)
Vaughn, David
Vaughn, Jennie <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moran Cemetery AKA Stewart CemeteryEmpire Township, Section 28Andrew County, Missouri Directions: From Savannah, east on Hwy. E 3.5 miles to D. North on D 4.3 miles to driveway to farm. Cemetery is on private property. Drive 0.1 mile east onto property to a path going north through the alfalfa field. Drive 0.1 mile north right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558,562],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew-county","category-cemeteries-andrew-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}