Stephen Moorman

As printed in 1882

STEPHEN MOORMAN, farmer, P. 0. Winchester. The subject of this sketch is a native of this county, and waa born April 26, 1822. His parents were Tarlton and Rebecca Moorman, natives of North Carolina. He waM brought up a farmer boy, and received a limited education in subscription schools taught for about forty days each winter. For a description of the schoolhouse, in which he received his rudimental lesson?, see biography of James J. Clayton. He was married, March 2, 1848, to Miss Priscilla Digga, a native also of this county, and a daughter of Armsby Diggs. They have two children— Alfred T. and Henry A. Mrs. Moorman died March 30, 1868, and he again m.tried March 10, 1870, this time to Mrs. Malinda A. Niokson. Mr

Moomun is a member of the M. G. Church, as was also his first wife. His second (present) wife is a member of the Society of Friends. There is a found on his farm, and also an oblong charity in the ground, twenty feet in diameter, agd was, at the time he purchased the place, six feet deep. Around this CUT ity is an embankment of earth upon which is an oak stump twenty inches in diameter. Mr. M. has dealt more or legs in stock, but is now giving his attention to farming and raising stock. He owns 178 acres of valuable land in the White River Valley.

As printed in History of Randolph County, Indiana with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers : to which are appended maps of its several townships (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.