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Rachel Clark

Andrew Moorman birt: ABT 1743 plac: Louisa, Virginia deat: < Micajah Clark Moorman birt: 7 SEP 1735 plac: Hanover County, Virginia deat: 1806 marr:
				Michael Clark
				birt: ABT 1620 plac: England deat: 5 OCT 1678 plac: Virginia marr: 1642 plac: England
			Micajah Clark
			birt: 1659 plac: Isle of Wight, England deat: 1706 plac: Louisa County, Virginia marr: 13 APR 1681 plac: Christ Church, Middlesex, Virginia
				Margaret
				birt: deat: Barbados, West Indies marr: 1642 plac: England
		Christopher Clark
		birt: 1681 plac: Middlesex, Virginia deat: 28 MAY 1754 plac: Louisa Co., Virginia marr: 1709
				Zachariah Moorman
				birt: deat: marr:
			Sallie Anne Moorman
			birt: 1662 plac: Isle of Wight, England deat: 5 JAN 1710 plac: Louisa County, Virginia marr: 13 APR 1681 plac: Christ Church, Middlesex, Virginia
				Mary Candler
				birt: deat: marr:
	Rachel Clark
	birt: ABT 1714 plac: New Kent, Virginia deat: 10 JUN 1792 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia Thomas Moorman marr: 12 JAN 1730 plac: Hanover County, Virginia birt: 14 SEP 1705 plac: Green Springs, Virginia deat: 10 NOV 1767 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia
			Edward Johnston
			birt: 21 APR 1649 plac: Aberdeen, Scotland deat: 1704 plac: Virginia marr: 1677
		Penelope Johnston
		birt: ABT 1685 deat: marr: 1709
			Elizabeth Walker
			birt: ABT 1649 deat: 1725 plac: New Kent, Virginia marr: 1677

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Manoah Chiles

< Susannah Chiles birt: ABT 1735 plac: Caroline Co., Virginia deat: marr:
			Manoah Chiles
			birt: deat:

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Thomas Moorman


			Charles Moorman
			birt: deat:
		Thomas Moorman
		birt: 14 SEP 1705 plac: Green Springs, Virginia deat: 10 NOV 1767 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia marr: 12 JAN 1730 plac: Hanover County, Virginia
			Elizabeth Reynolds
			birt: deat:
	Micajah Clark Moorman
	birt: 7 SEP 1735 plac: Hanover County, Virginia deat: 1806 marr:
			Christopher Clark
			birt: 1681 plac: Middlesex, Virginia deat: 28 MAY 1754 plac: Louisa Co., Virginia marr: 1709
		Rachel Clark
		birt: ABT 1714 plac: New Kent, Virginia deat: 10 JUN 1792 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia marr: 12 JAN 1730 plac: Hanover County, Virginia
			Penelope Johnston
			birt: ABT 1685 deat: marr: 1709
Thomas Moorman
birt: 17 DEC 1755 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia deat: Alphracia Hope marr: 22 DEC 1775 birt: 24 AUG 1752 plac: Carolina County, Virginia deat:
		Manoah Chiles
		birt: deat:
	Susannah Chiles
	birt: ABT 1735 plac: Caroline Co., Virginia deat: marr:

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Thomas C. Moorman, the son of Micajah, who was the son of Thomas, who was the son of Thomas Moorman, who came from Ireland about the year 1690. His wife came from England, and they settled in North Carolina, and had four sons, Thomas, Chiles, Andrew and Achilles; and thus the Moorman family was divided into four branches. Thomas Moorman, the subject of this sketch, was a descendent of the fourth generation, and of the Thomas branch. He was born in Bedford County, Virginia, December 17, 1755, and his wife Alphracia Hope, in Carolina County, Virginia, August 24, 1752. Our subject and his wife, daughter of John and Mary Hope, were married, December 22, 1775, and settled in Campbell County, near Lynchburg. They had eight children; Reuben, Micajah C., John H., Chiles, Thomas P., James, Charles T., and Nancy. The first three named married in Virginia, about the year 1806. Thomas C. Moorman, sr., bought one thousand acres of land in Silver Creek Township, Greene County, Ohio, of Colonel John Watts, of Lynchburg, Virginia. Having secured a home in the dense forest of the northwest, Thomas C. Moorman, sr., with all his family, except Reuben and John, started on the 25th day of June 1807, to move to Ohio. After a long and tedious journey, they arrived in Highland County, in the fall. About six miles southeast of Leesburg, they moved into a small log cabin in the woods, cleared three acres of ground, put it in wheat, and one acre for turnips. During the winter and spring, Micajah C. and James built a log house on the late purchase in Silvercreek Township, about one mile and a half east of Jamestown, on the south bank of Silver Creek, for Micajah C. They boarded themselves and slept at Noah Strong�s In the mean time, the other boys cleared fifteen acres in Highland County, for corn. During the summer James and Thomas built a log house for their father, one mile east of Jamestown. The only persons living in the neighborhood at that time were, Noah Strong, Martin Mendenhall, Thomas Browder, Abraham Townsend, Harkes Turner, Allen Ray, and Christopher Hussy, who lived near Bowersville, on the Indian trail that ran from some point on the Ohio River through Highland County, passing by the way of Lexington, Reeseville, Bowersville, and Jamestown, alone which the Moormans moved in the spring of 1809. Here upon the north bank of Silver Creek, our subject and his family settled as one of the first pioneers of this section of Greene County. The Indian trail served as a guide, but it was not a road along which a man might drive a wagon and team. They had to clear a road, and when they left the trail, there were guided by blazes. About four miles east there were two prairies, named by Thomas Moorman, sr., Elkhorn and Baldwin�s in one he had found a part of an elk�s horn, from which circumstance it was named, and in the edge of the other a man by the name of Baldwin built a small log cabin, where he lived a few years, which fact gave rise to the name of that prairie. These prairies afforded coarse grass, which was made into hay by the first settlers, until they could make meadows of their own lands. The workmen had to look out for the black rattlesnake, which infested these prairies. Interspersed and on the outer edge were thickets of underbrush, briers, vines, and long prairie grass, intertwined so as to form an almost impenetrable barrier to man and beast. One of these thickets, larger than any of the others, was known by the name of the Big Thicket, and served as a covert for wild beasts, such as deer, bear, wild-cats, wild-hogs, foxes, wolves, etc. Thomas C. Moorman, sr., was a great hunter. On one occasion he took his son Chiles with him, and coming upon the track of a bear, the dogs followed it until they came up to Bruin, attacking and keeping him at bay until the arrival of the hunters, whereupon Chiles ran up to the bear in the head, and by some means missed his aim, and the bear caught hold of one of his legs. He could neither defend nor extricate himself until his father liberated him by aiming between the boy�s legs and shooting the bear in the head. Micajah C. was a blacksmith, and did all of that kind of work required in the neighborhood. Thomas P. was a surveyor, and did nearly all of that kind of work in this part of the county; he was occasionally called to settle the disputes between parties caused by the inaccuracies of the surveyor. Chiles and James were the first members of the family that attended any religious meeting after moving to Greene County, which was held at David Falkner�s who lived near where Paintersville now is. The first religious meeting of Friends in the neighborhood, was held at Thomas C. Moorman, sr,s, house, and continued there until about the year 1816. Friends then built a house on the southwest corner of Samuel Johnson�s land, of logs, twenty feet square, divided into two apartments, by a plank partition running through the center, made in sections, so as to slide up and down; thus the two rooms could be converted into one. There was a door in each room, the men passing through one to their apartment, the women through the other to theirs. In time of business meeting, the partition was closed; thus constituting two meetings of business, the men and women each having a clerk, and if any thing came up in either meeting requiring joint action, there was a messenger appointed to inform the other. The first school house was built on the hill a few rods southwest of where James Heath now lives, and Zephaniah Leonard taught the first school. The next house was built a few years later, on James Moorman�s land, not far from the southwest corner; Thomas P. Moorman taught the first school here. These schools were all supported by subscription; text books - Webster�s spelling book, English reader, New Testament scriptures, Pike�s arithmetic, Murrey�s grammar, and writing. There were no copy-plates or printed instructions, the scholar depending entirely upon the instruction of the master, who would set copies, and show the pupil how to hold the pen, as well as to make and mend the same. They were all made of quills. Thomas C. Moorman, sr., like a shock of wheat fully ripe, was ready for the harvest December 26, 1845, aged eighty-nine years. His estimable wife survived him six years, and was gathered to her everlasting home on August 18, 1851, aged ninety-nine years, lacking one day. Her�s was a long and eventful life. Having the principal care of the moral training of a large family, together with the hardships incident to pioneer life, these conspired to make it a hard one, yet patiently and perseveringly she endured to the end. She was christened in the Established Church of England, but at about the age of eighteen, she was converted to Christianity, and joined the Society of Friends, and was a faithful and exemplary member during life, beloved and esteemed for her deeds of charity by all who knew her. Reuben, oldest son of Thomas, married Lydia Johnson; had six children: Edwin O., Reuben, John T., Paulina, Charlotte, and Nancy. Micajah C. Married Susanna Johnson, his first, and Ann Thomas, his second wife. By his first wife he had eight children; Thomas C., Christopher, Reuben, Apharacia, Mildred, Elizabeth, Polly, and Nancy. John H. married Elizabeth Johnson, and had seven children: Lodawie, James M., John, Lucy, Beteann, Virginia, and Missouri. Chiles married Elizabeth Watson, and had nine children: Thomas T., Watson, John, David, Matilda, Nancy, Leah, Malinda, and Elonar. Thomas P. married Dosha Paxon, and had thirteen children; John, Thomas C., James, Paxon, William N., Nancy, Melissa, Susanna, Apharacia, Mary, Elizabeth, Rachel, and Martha. James married Elizabeth Johnson, his first, and Mary sexton, his second wife. By his first wife he had nine children: Manson H., Henry T., James, Reuben, Emily, Mary, Mildred, and Elizabeth. Charles T. Moorman married Matilda Watson. They had thirteen children: John M., Macajah F., Marshall, Jesse, Matthew, Charles T., Paschal L., Eli W., Elizabeth Ann, Maria W., Malinda, Matilda, and Margaret. Nancy, their only daughter, married Pleasant Johnson, and had nine children: Thomas, William, Edwin O., Virgil, Jarvis L., Eli P., Apharacia, Palina, and Nancy. Thomas C. Moorman, sr., children are all dead, except James, who lives near Oldtown, three and one-half miles north of Xenia, and is in good health, being about ninety years old. Micajah F. Moorman, second son of Charles T. Moorman, sr., was born on the 8th of February, 1824; commenced the practice of medicine in Jamestown, in the spring of 1858; and was married to Julia A. Thompson, September 19, 1866. She was born October 22, 1832, in Guilford County, North Carolina. David Moorman, farmer, is a son of Chiles and Elizabeth (Watson) Moorman, who were natives of Virginia, where they were reared. He came to Ohio, in 1807, located in Highland County, where he remained until 1809, when he came to this county, where he was married and lived the remainder of his life. Mr. Moorman came to this county, about 1810. They were parents of nine children, of whom six are living. He was born in this township, September 29, 1829, where he was reared, and where he was married, January 4, 1856, to Miss Kate McAdams, a daughter of Francis; of which union there were five children: William C., Harry L., Anna M., and Estella C., are living; Ida May, who died at the age of six years. Mr. and Mrs. Moorman, are members of the Friends Church, which they joined in 1870. His father had been a member of this church for years, and was among the pioneers of this township, and owned about three hundred acres of land, of which David has fifty acres situated about one and one-half miles east of Jamestown.

Elizabeth Moorman


			Charles Moorman
			birt: deat:
		Thomas Moorman
		birt: 14 SEP 1705 plac: Green Springs, Virginia deat: 10 NOV 1767 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia marr: 12 JAN 1730 plac: Hanover County, Virginia
			Elizabeth Reynolds
			birt: deat:
	Micajah Clark Moorman
	birt: 7 SEP 1735 plac: Hanover County, Virginia deat: 1806 marr:
			Christopher Clark
			birt: 1681 plac: Middlesex, Virginia deat: 28 MAY 1754 plac: Louisa Co., Virginia marr: 1709
		Rachel Clark
		birt: ABT 1714 plac: New Kent, Virginia deat: 10 JUN 1792 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia marr: 12 JAN 1730 plac: Hanover County, Virginia
			Penelope Johnston
			birt: ABT 1685 deat: marr: 1709
Elizabeth Moorman
birt: 30 OCT 1760 deat: Moorman Johnson marr: birt: deat:
		Manoah Chiles
		birt: deat:
	Susannah Chiles
	birt: ABT 1735 plac: Caroline Co., Virginia deat: marr:

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Rachel Moorman


			Charles Moorman
			birt: deat:
		Thomas Moorman
		birt: 14 SEP 1705 plac: Green Springs, Virginia deat: 10 NOV 1767 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia marr: 12 JAN 1730 plac: Hanover County, Virginia
			Elizabeth Reynolds
			birt: deat:
	Micajah Clark Moorman
	birt: 7 SEP 1735 plac: Hanover County, Virginia deat: 1806 marr:
			Christopher Clark
			birt: 1681 plac: Middlesex, Virginia deat: 28 MAY 1754 plac: Louisa Co., Virginia marr: 1709
		Rachel Clark
		birt: ABT 1714 plac: New Kent, Virginia deat: 10 JUN 1792 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia marr: 12 JAN 1730 plac: Hanover County, Virginia
			Penelope Johnston
			birt: ABT 1685 deat: marr: 1709
Rachel Moorman
birt: 11 MAR 1763 deat: James Johnson marr: 21 APR 1781 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia birt: deat:
		Manoah Chiles
		birt: deat:
	Susannah Chiles
	birt: ABT 1735 plac: Caroline Co., Virginia deat: marr:

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Millie Moorman


			Charles Moorman
			birt: deat:
		Thomas Moorman
		birt: 14 SEP 1705 plac: Green Springs, Virginia deat: 10 NOV 1767 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia marr: 12 JAN 1730 plac: Hanover County, Virginia
			Elizabeth Reynolds
			birt: deat:
	Micajah Clark Moorman
	birt: 7 SEP 1735 plac: Hanover County, Virginia deat: 1806 marr:
			Christopher Clark
			birt: 1681 plac: Middlesex, Virginia deat: 28 MAY 1754 plac: Louisa Co., Virginia marr: 1709
		Rachel Clark
		birt: ABT 1714 plac: New Kent, Virginia deat: 10 JUN 1792 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia marr: 12 JAN 1730 plac: Hanover County, Virginia
			Penelope Johnston
			birt: ABT 1685 deat: marr: 1709
Millie Moorman
birt: 15 MAR 1765 deat: Christopher Johnson marr: 20 DEC 1783 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia birt: deat:
		Manoah Chiles
		birt: deat:
	Susannah Chiles
	birt: ABT 1735 plac: Caroline Co., Virginia deat: marr:

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Charles Moorman


			Charles Moorman
			birt: deat:
		Thomas Moorman
		birt: 14 SEP 1705 plac: Green Springs, Virginia deat: 10 NOV 1767 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia marr: 12 JAN 1730 plac: Hanover County, Virginia
			Elizabeth Reynolds
			birt: deat:
	Micajah Clark Moorman
	birt: 7 SEP 1735 plac: Hanover County, Virginia deat: 1806 marr:
			Christopher Clark
			birt: 1681 plac: Middlesex, Virginia deat: 28 MAY 1754 plac: Louisa Co., Virginia marr: 1709
		Rachel Clark
		birt: ABT 1714 plac: New Kent, Virginia deat: 10 JUN 1792 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia marr: 12 JAN 1730 plac: Hanover County, Virginia
			Penelope Johnston
			birt: ABT 1685 deat: marr: 1709
Charles Moorman
birt: 8 JAN 1767 deat: Betty Johnson marr: 20 DEC 1788 birt: deat:
		Manoah Chiles
		birt: deat:
	Susannah Chiles
	birt: ABT 1735 plac: Caroline Co., Virginia deat: marr:

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Chiles Moorman


			Charles Moorman
			birt: deat:
		Thomas Moorman
		birt: 14 SEP 1705 plac: Green Springs, Virginia deat: 10 NOV 1767 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia marr: 12 JAN 1730 plac: Hanover County, Virginia
			Elizabeth Reynolds
			birt: deat:
	Micajah Clark Moorman
	birt: 7 SEP 1735 plac: Hanover County, Virginia deat: 1806 marr:
			Christopher Clark
			birt: 1681 plac: Middlesex, Virginia deat: 28 MAY 1754 plac: Louisa Co., Virginia marr: 1709
		Rachel Clark
		birt: ABT 1714 plac: New Kent, Virginia deat: 10 JUN 1792 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia marr: 12 JAN 1730 plac: Hanover County, Virginia
			Penelope Johnston
			birt: ABT 1685 deat: marr: 1709
Chiles Moorman
birt: 16 JUN 1768 deat: 22 SEP 1768
		Manoah Chiles
		birt: deat:
	Susannah Chiles
	birt: ABT 1735 plac: Caroline Co., Virginia deat: marr:

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Rhoda Moorman


			Charles Moorman
			birt: deat:
		Thomas Moorman
		birt: 14 SEP 1705 plac: Green Springs, Virginia deat: 10 NOV 1767 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia marr: 12 JAN 1730 plac: Hanover County, Virginia
			Elizabeth Reynolds
			birt: deat:
	Micajah Clark Moorman
	birt: 7 SEP 1735 plac: Hanover County, Virginia deat: 1806 marr:
			Christopher Clark
			birt: 1681 plac: Middlesex, Virginia deat: 28 MAY 1754 plac: Louisa Co., Virginia marr: 1709
		Rachel Clark
		birt: ABT 1714 plac: New Kent, Virginia deat: 10 JUN 1792 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia marr: 12 JAN 1730 plac: Hanover County, Virginia
			Penelope Johnston
			birt: ABT 1685 deat: marr: 1709
Rhoda Moorman
birt: 15 AUG 1769 deat: Micajah Johnson marr: birt: deat: John Johnson marr: 21 NOV 1789 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia birt: deat:
		Manoah Chiles
		birt: deat:
	Susannah Chiles
	birt: ABT 1735 plac: Caroline Co., Virginia deat: marr:

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Susannah Moorman


			Charles Moorman
			birt: deat:
		Thomas Moorman
		birt: 14 SEP 1705 plac: Green Springs, Virginia deat: 10 NOV 1767 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia marr: 12 JAN 1730 plac: Hanover County, Virginia
			Elizabeth Reynolds
			birt: deat:
	Micajah Clark Moorman
	birt: 7 SEP 1735 plac: Hanover County, Virginia deat: 1806 marr:
			Christopher Clark
			birt: 1681 plac: Middlesex, Virginia deat: 28 MAY 1754 plac: Louisa Co., Virginia marr: 1709
		Rachel Clark
		birt: ABT 1714 plac: New Kent, Virginia deat: 10 JUN 1792 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia marr: 12 JAN 1730 plac: Hanover County, Virginia
			Penelope Johnston
			birt: ABT 1685 deat: marr: 1709
Susannah Moorman
birt: 15 MAY 1771 deat: Samuel Johnson marr: 16 FEB 1788 plac: Bedford Co., Virginia birt: deat:
		Manoah Chiles
		birt: deat:
	Susannah Chiles
	birt: ABT 1735 plac: Caroline Co., Virginia deat: marr:

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