Bibb County AlArchives Biographies.....Moren, Mrs. Mary Frances Davidson - March 22, 1840 - March 27, 1927
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    MRS. M. F. MOREN, widow of the late Dr. Edward Hawthore Moren, is a native
of Alabama and a daughter of Samuel W. and Frances (Stringfellow) Davidson,
mention of whom is made elsewhere in these volumes. Mrs. Moren was married July
5, 1860, but to their marriage no children were born. Dr. Moren was one of the
best known and most influential men of Bibb county. He was born in Dindwiddie
county, Va., in 1825. His father, a merchant and farmer by principal occupation,
was several times a member of the senate of Virginia; his mother was a Miss
Crawford, of Maryland. Dr. Moren graduated at a medical college in New York. He
served as assisstant surgeon in the Mexican war, resigning in 1848. In 1851 he
settled in Bibb county, and for ten years devoted himself to the practice of
medicine. In 1861 he was chosen to represent Perry and Bibb counties in the
upper house of the general assembly, serving with distinction until 1866. He was
a member of the committees of finance and of taxation, and by his zeal,
intelligence and activity, afforded valuable aid in devising a system of revenue
at a time when the treasury of Alabama was exhaused and the public credit in
imminent peril. He was charman of the joint committee on retrenchment, and in
February, 1866, he made a scrutinizing report which may be seen on the Senate
Journal, page 290. At the expiration of his legislative term, in 1866, he joined
the Twenty-ninth Alabama regiment as surgeon, and subsequently had charge of a
hospital at Greenville, Ala. In 1870 he was elected lieutenant-governor of the
state, and presided over the deliberations of the senate with dignity and
impartiality throughout his term. He was also a member of the board of regents
of the Albany university. Dr. Moren died March 19, 1886, after having lived a
life of usefulness, admired and beloved by all. The world was brighter and
better for his having lived in it. He possessed the gift of a rare
intellect-stored richly with the wisdom of philosophy, science and art, which he
put to practical use. Since his death Mrs. Moren has continued to live on their
plantation of 800 acres, adjoining the town of Centreville. This is one of the
most magnificent country seats in that vicinity. Situated one-half mile south of
Centreville, near the banks of the Cahawba river. The residence is one of the
old southern type and from whose balconies and observatory one can command a
broad expanse of wood, orchards and cotton fields. One of the pleasantest homes
in the land is to be found here. Mrs. Moren, being a cultivated and highly
intellectual woman, has a large circle of friends and acquaintances, to whom she
takes pleasure in opening her spacious parlors.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 493-494

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