Elder Alexander Moran was born in
He was twice married. His first wife was Miss Roxanne Griffith, to which union were horn 10 children. They lived
happily together till death separated them.
Later he was married to Mrs. Elizabeth Stephens.
Elder Moran professed a hope in Christ in his seventeenth
year and joined the Primitive Baptist church at Green Hill,
He was given a letter of dismissal from his church in 1867,
and joined at
During his ministerial life, he served a number of churches, and was an able minister,
and a faithful pastor. His churches
were prosperous and he baptized many people.
Elder Moran was a devoted husband, a kind father, good
neighbor and an highly esteemed brother; and our association has lost an able
minister, his companion a good husband, his children a kind father, and his churches
a good pastor. But, while we miss him so much, we feel that he is not dead, but
asleep in the arms of the Lord. Asleep. blessed sleep! where the righteous never
wake to weep. We feel our inability to write the obituary of one we loved and esteemed
so highly. His advice and fatherly care we shall miss so much. He was a father
to young preachers and advised them not to take up with new things, but to inquire
for the old paths wherein is the good way,"
To his wife and children we feel to say, Weep not for
husband and father, for he has been honorably discharged from the battlefield
and has heard the welcome applause; "Come ye blessed of my Father!" Your
loss is his gain. May the Lord bless his wife and children, and our association;
and may we be prepared to meet him on the sunny banks of sweet deliverance,
where sorrow and death never come.
When we've been there ten thousand years, Bright shining as
the Sun ;
We've no less' days to sing null's praise.
Than when we first begun."
Written by:
ELDERS J. A. FLAGG, & J. W. TUTTLE