MORAN - LOVING CEMETERY
near MILAM, SABINE COUNTY, TEXAS
by
Letha Ann Betts (2000)
Mackie & Kay Parker McCary, Billy Neal Fussell, & Blanche Toole (2001)

(Also known as Toledo Bend or Moran Ferry Cemetery)

First transcribed by Mary Loving Bell in August 1977 -- Submitted by descendant of Manuel W. Loving, Leatha Ann Betts, Jan 2000
Reinventoried & indexed 24 June 2001 by Mackie & Kay Parker McCary, Billy Neal Fussell, & Blanche Toole who provided directions and additional information.

DIRECTIONS

Moran-Loving Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas – From the courthouse in Hemphill, Texas take FM 83 East 1 block to State Hwy 87.  Go North or Left on Hwy 87 for 7 miles to Milam.  Continue North on Hwy 87 for 5.2 miles.  Turn East or Right on FM 276.  Go 3.5 miles to where the road dead ends in a “T” then turn Right.  From this “T” go 1.1 miles until you reach a road that turns Left.  Turn Left and at 0.2 miles take the Right fork.  Go another 0.2 mile to the cemetery.  Additional information added in parenthesis.

First Marked Burial – 16 Nov 1868  *** Last Marked Burial – 28 Feb 1989
      NAME BIRTH DEATH INSCRIPTIONS COMMENTS
1     LOVING, Lydia no dates
(19 May 1851)		 no dates
(d. 1857)		   d/o Manuel Walton & Elizabeth Chiles Loving 
2     ?_____, Nelly       Loving family slave
3     ?_____, Reuben       Loving family slave
4 LOVING, Manuel W. (Walton)

14 Aug 1803

16 Nov 1858

   h/o Elizabeth Jane Chiles Loving
(s/o Adam & Lydia Loving)
5 LOVING, Elizabeth (Jane) (CHILES)

26 Sep 1804

6 Jul 1878

   w/o Manuel Walton Loving 
6     (other children-no names, no dates)        
7     MORAN, Malissa J. (Jane LOVING) 4 Oct 1832 24 Jun 1903 Dau of M.W. & Eliz. Loving (married 1st Dr. W. J. J. Grisham,
married 2nd William Franklin Moran)
8     MORAN, Wm. F. (Franklin) 19 Jan 1840 27 Apr. 1915 Co C Texas Calvary CSA h/o Melissa Jane Loving Moran
9     MORAN, Mary P. 4 Oct 1873 9 Oct 1880   (d/o William F. Moran & Melissa Jane Loving)
10     MORAN, Robert E. (Emmett) 29 Feb 1869 17 Aug 1873   (s/o William F. Moran & Melissa Jane Loving)  
11     BROWN, Alice L. (Leona MORAN) 15 Mar 1871 25 May 1961   (married 1st William Braswell 24 Aug 1905 SCT, married 2nd Joseph B. Neal 3 Jan 1909 SCT - d/o William F. Moran & Melissa Jane Loving) 
12     BRASWELL, Willie (William) 30 Mar 1875 11 Sep 1907   (married Alice Leona Moran 24 Aug 1905 SCT) 
13     BRASWELL, Johnny T. 22 May 1906 14 Feb 1976  

(s/o William Braswell & Alice Leona Moran) 
14     WISE, Malissa Ardell (NEAL) 7 Oct 1909 14 Nov 1971   (d/o Joseph B. Neal & Alice Leona Moran 
15     WISE, R. J. ("Bob") 1 Jan 1907 28 Feb 1989   (h/o Malissa Ardell Neal Wise) 
16     WISE, Glen Curtis 12 May 1910 10 Jun 1986

Pvt US Army WW II

  

Contact submitter, Leatha Ann Betts, a descendant of Manuel W. Loving for additional information.
& Kay Parker McCary

Sabine County Cemeteries

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