February Birthdays

Here are just a few Moran relatives with February birthdays:

Mitchell Shumate, born February 7, 1792.  Died March 1, 1871.

Williamson Harris, born February 17, 1782.  Died in 1840.  His wife, Elizabeth Battle Perry was born February 18, 1795 and died in 1870.

Charles Harrell Moran aka Uncle Brud was born February 17, 1876 and died December 31, 1967.

Judith Carroll Scott Moran  born February 22, 1927 and died May 15, 2005.

Mary Ada "Addie" McCutcheon Harris  born February 27, 1861 and died October 10, 1930.

Newton Temple Harris Sr. born February 26, 1882 and died January 14, 1940.

Thomas C. Scott born February 27, 1855 and died August 21, 1861.

William Shanks Scott born February 13, 1807 and died January 2, 1873.

Daisy Gunn Ezzell born February 22 1873 and died June 30, 1972.

Capt Leon Caraway 1874-1939

Leonidas A. Caraway (Carraway) was born April 5, 1874 in Benton County Tennessee to William "Buck" Caraway and Catherine (Kate) Morris.  We don't know if he was merely a friend or if he's family but this picture of Leon was found among the papers of Charles Harrell Moran.  Leon would've been a contemporary of the Moran children.  He attended Vanderbilt and received a law degree, as did James Henderson Moran III. Leon married Ina Belle McCollough and they had two children, Leon (b. 1910) and Baxter (b. 1913).

Capt Leon Carraway (sic)
Co. - I
Return to Harrell Moran
Dresden, Tenn.

Leon was a Captain in the First Regiment Tennessee Volunteers during the Spanish-American War.  When he returned home from the War he was the postmaster at Big Sandy.  In 1929 the Tennessee State Legislature created the Nathan Bedford Forrest Park Commission, Leon was one of the original board members.

During World War I Leon went to Paris Tennessee and organized Battery D.  However due to his age and various health problems he had to step down from service.  Captain Caraway was in the Veterans Administration Hospital in Mountain Home Tennessee when he died on October 31, 1939.  He was buried in Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.

For more information about the Caraway family and Benton County Tennessee be sure and read Benton County by the Benton County Genealogical Society.

**Updated October 17, 2013
If you're interested in more pictures of Capt. Caraway and other of his compatriots in Company I be sure and visit Spanish American War Soldiers, Company I, Pictures from the Past. Some of the photo's are identified and some are still a mystery.

**Updated January 8 2023

The photograph was taken by John Howard Dubbs.  Dubbs was known to be working in Tennessee from about 1892-1895.

Helen M. Scott 1902 - 1980

Helen M. Scott was born in 1902 and died in 1980. She was the youngest child of Arthur Carroll Scott Sr, co-founder of the Scott and White Hospital, and Maud Marcia Sherwood of Temple Texas.  Her paternal grandparents were Martha Helen Moran and Rufus F. Scott originally from Tennessee they moved to Texas in a Rockaway Carriage in 1858.  Helen married Walker William Saulsbury.  

Though Helen was from a wealthy family she spent time helping out at her father's hospital.  After the death of her husband in 1944, her involvement in the Presbyterian Church led to missionary and volunteer work in hospitals in India, Thailand, Indonesia, China, Philipines and Japan.  Helen also travelled with other missionaries to speak to Presbyterian congregations about the work the missionaries were doing.   

In addition, Helen had a love of the arts with a particular interest in theatre.  She was one of the original Board of Governors of the Temple Civic Theatre which was chartered in 1968.  

She and her husband are buried in Hillcrest Cemetery in Temple Texas.

Helen Scott
Merry Xmas to
Cousin Harrel

                                                                                                 

   Helen and Harrell are 1st cousins.  

This is Charles
Harrell Moran,
the lucky recipient
of Helen's picture.