Moses Ferst

A stained-glass window in Savannah's Congregation Mickve Israel, one of the oldest synagogues in the United States, was made and installed in his honour.

[10] After moving to Savannah, where the family lived at 108 Liberty Street,[11] the connections he made in the north assisted in the procuring of funds to help build a new (and current) sanctuary at the Congregation Mickve Israel in the 1870s.

[11] Prior to Hannah's death in 1874 at the age of around 39, the couple had four more children in Savannah (two of whom died very young): Henry (1866–1867), Gertrude Rebecca (1869–1872), Leopold ("Leon"; 1870–1927) and Miriam ("Mazie") (1874–c. 1885).

[1] In the care of Strauss, his body was returned to Savannah on the Atlantic Coast steam line on 16 August, and then lay in repose at the family home for a few hours.

[9] A stained-glass window in Savannah's Congregation Mickve Israel, one of the oldest synagogues in the United States, was made and installed in his honour.

Depicting the Five Books of Moses and the Lion of Judah and containing the wording His soul shall abide in happiness, it is located on the Wayne Street (northern) side of the sanctuary he helped fund.