Robert Moorman

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Robert Glenn Moorman - South Carolina planter and legislator, born June 22, 1814 near Fish Dam, Union County, South Carolina

Family
Parents - Thomas Samuel Moorman (1775 – 1818) & Jemima Glenn Sims born 1786
Sister - Elizabeth D. Moorman born 1818, wife of Reuben Sims Chick
First Wife - Mary L. Kenner died 1845, daughter of Samuel Eskridge Kenner & Lucy Goree
Child with Mary - Thomas Samuel Moorman (March 24, 1842 – August 4, 1902), lawyer and Librarian of the South Carolina Supreme Court in 1890's
Second Wife - Virginia C. Harrington (July 19, 1829 – March 17, 1861), daughter of Young John Harrington & Nancy Berry Calmes
Children with Virginia:

Mary Adelaide Moorman (1853 – 1898)
Elizabeth Theresa Moorman (1855 – June 27, 1877)
Robert Glenn Moorman, Jr. (November 15, 1857 – October 10, 1896)
Nancy H. Moorman born 1858

Robert was grandfather of Thomas Samuel Moorman (February 7, 1875 – June 28 , 1936) - Colonel U.S. Army
Great-grandfather of Thomas Samuel Moorman (July 11, 1910 – December 23, 1997) – Lt. Gen USAF, Commandant United States Air Force Academy 1965 - 1970
Great-great-grandfather of Thomas S. Moorman Jr. - General USAF

Government and Military Service
South Carolina House of Representatives 1848 - 1852
South Carolina Senate 1852 - 1855, resigned due to poor health, later served 1864 - 1865
In October 1865 lost to Col. James H. Williams in race for State Senate representing Newberry District by vote of 401 to 369.
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Lt. Col. on staff of Gov. John Hugh Means 1852 - 1854
Signed S.C. Secession document as delegate to the Ordinance of Secession Convention in December, 1860 representing Newberry County, South Carolina with Simeon Fair, John P. Kinard & Joseph Caldwell
Member of the South Carolina Soldier's Board of Relief 1861 - 1864
Second Lt. South Carolina Volunteers, 3rd Regiment, C.S.A.

General Info

Robert owned a large plantation near Maybinton, Newberry Co. where he also bred horses.
Ardent States' Rights supporter, not a college graduate, liked dancing & was devoted Christian, a Methodist.
Business partner with Albert G. (Bert) Maybin and brothers Reuben Sims Chick (also Moorman's brother-in-law) and Pettus Wales Chick in Newberry, S.C. mercantile company named Moorman & Maybin.
Owner of a grocery in Mollohon Row in Newberry, South Carolina.

Moved to town of Newberry in 1866 from Maybinton.
Director of Newberry National Bank 1871.
Died at his home in Newberry on October 5, 1873, buried Rosemont Cemetery, Newberry, S.C.
Tombstone Inscription: "Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace"

References

Pope, Thomas H., The History of Newberry County, South Carolina, Vol. II 1860-1990, 1992, University of South Carolina Press ISBN 0-87249-777-1
O'Neall, John Belton Annals of Newberry 1858, updated by John A. Chapman 1892 ISBN 1933268-05-0

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