Bank of Huntingdon, Tennessee

Here's a piece of bank ephemera from the Bank of Huntingdon, Tennessee.

19th century Ledger Books, Dresden Tennessee

Being bankers and bookkeepers you can just imagine how the Moran's loved ledger books!

1859 State Bank, South Carolina, 10 Dollars

Toward the end of the Civil War John W. Moran was at Augusta, Georgia.  This $10 bank note was probably part of his last pay from the Confederacy.  The note is signed by Benjamin M. Lee, a cashier at the State Bank of South Carolina and the president of the bank, Edward Sebring.

Sebring was a transplanted New Yorker to South Carolina.  In addition to other architectural endeavors, he built an amazingly beautiful Greek Revival style home in Charleston between 1838 and 1846.  In addition to being the President of the State Bank of South Carolina during the Civil War, his tombstone proclaims that he was one of the founders of Magnolia Cemetery and its first president.  At the time of his death he was president of E. Sebring and Company, an insurance and brokerage firm.  His first wife was Caroline Secress Miller.  In 1863 he married Gertrude Richards Jessep.

Benjamin Markley Lee was born in Charleston about 1809.  His tenure with the Bank of South Carolina was a long one.  He seems to have begun as an "outdoor clerk and porter" in 1836 and worked his way up to Cashier.  He married Eliza Broome in 1852.  Lee died in 1871 and like Sebring, is buried in Magnolia Cemetery. Cemetery.

RMS Titanic - Dresden Enterprise dated April 26, 1912

On April 26, 1912, the big news story on the front page of the Dresden Enterprise was the death of John W. Moran who had passed away on April 12 and The Dresden Banks New President, James H. Moran III.  Buried on page six was an article about the sinking of the Titanic.

It's interesting to note that the reporter, in the midst of such a tragedy, felt it necessary to give a 

fashion report on Mrs. John Jacob Aster. "She was dressed in a black Astrakan coat, 

and walked with difficulty."