{"id":12819,"date":"2013-12-26T17:28:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T23:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=12819"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:47:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:47:40","slug":"moran-emma-etheridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/moran-emma-etheridge\/","title":{"rendered":"MORAN, Emma (Etheridge)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MoranEmma\"<\/a>Mrs. \u00a0MORAN,<\/strong>\u00a0daughter of\u00a0Hon. Emerson ETHERIDGE<\/strong>, of Tennessee, first saw the light in the country home of her maternal grandfather,\u00a0Mr. James NAILLING<\/strong>, a wealthy planter of the \u201cOld Volunteer State.\u201d \u00a0The mother of the subject of this sketch was, before her marriage,\u00a0Miss Fanny BELL<\/strong>, a queenly, gracious woman, the center and charm of a wide, but exclusive circle of friends; and \u201cexclusive\u201d meant something in the South away back in the fifties. The tenantry on the state of her father \u2013\u00a0Dr. Thomas BELL<\/strong>, an eminent physician \u2013 were devoted to her, and the slaves thought \u201cMiss Fanny\u201d the embodiment of beauty and goodness.<\/span><\/p>\n

At balls and receptions it was no unusual occurrence for her to slip away from an admiring circle to engage in conversation \u2013 never patronizingly \u2013 with some forlorn, neglected wallflower. \u00a0Hers was the beauty of a pure soul that worldly adulation could never spoil.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. ETHERIDGE<\/strong>\u00a0distinguished himself during his first term in Congress by the wise measures he advocated, his ready wit, his keen satire, and his fervid oratory. \u00a0He placed his daughter in school in Washington at the old Georgetown Convent, and during her stay there she witnessed many thrilling incidents of the Civil War and met many of the people whose characters and actions have left their stamp on the history of that vitally interesting period. \u00a0In postgraduate days, when peace had been concluded at Appomattox,\u00a0Miss ETHERIDGE<\/strong>\u00a0spent her time between Washington, Nashville, Memphis, and Southern and Eastern summer resorts, being much sought after and admired for her brilliant attainments and sweet, engaging manners.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1880\u00a0Miss ETHERIDGE<\/strong>\u00a0married\u00a0Mr. John Vallie MORAN<\/strong>, a scion of an old French Huguenot family, and went to reside in Detroit, Mich. \u00a0But whether a belle in Southern cities or a Detroit matron presiding over her spacious, elegant town mansion or her country home at Grousse Pointe Farms, she is the same brilliant woman, thoughtful, forceful, tactful, admired and beloved in her adopted State as in her native Tennessee. \u00a0 Notwithstanding her ten well-trained children, she is ever at the front in charitable and\u00a0philanthropic\u00a0work, and finds time to devote to musical societies. During the Spanish-American War she was vice president of the \u201cWoman\u2019s Auxillary,\u201d and now holds the office of vice president in the Michigan Society of the Daughters of 1812. \u00a0At a reunion of the alumni of her alma mater in 1899 from among that prominent and cultured band of women\u00a0Mrs. MORAN<\/strong>\u00a0was chosen \u201ctoastmistress,\u201d an office which she filled with all the old-time Southern grace and eloquence. \u00a0 Michigan and Tennessee are both proud to claim her as their own.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source:\u00a0Gilchrist, Annie S.\u00a0Some Representative Women of Tennessee<\/i>. Nashville: McQuiddy Print. Co, 1902.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mrs. \u00a0MORAN,\u00a0daughter of\u00a0Hon. Emerson ETHERIDGE, of Tennessee, first saw the light in the country home of her maternal grandfather,\u00a0Mr. James NAILLING, a wealthy planter of the \u201cOld Volunteer State.\u201d \u00a0The mother of the subject of this sketch was, before her marriage,\u00a0Miss Fanny BELL, a queenly, gracious woman, the center and charm of a wide, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4064,818,634,4419],"tags":[269,4072,4071,4073],"class_list":{"0":"post-12819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-representativewomen","7":"category-weakley","8":"category-woman","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-bell","11":"tag-etheridge","12":"tag-moran","13":"tag-nailling","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12821,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819\/revisions\/12821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}