Franklin County AlArchives Biographies.....Orman, William A. December 6 1856 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   WILLIAM A. ORMAN, planter and merchant, of Bel Green, was born in Franklin
county, Ala., December 6, 1856, and is the eldest of eight children born to his
parents, James M. and Elizabeth (Hancock) Orman, natives respectively of North
Carolina and Alabama. James M. was but an infant when he was brought to Alabama
by his father, who has passed the greater part of his life in Franklin county,
where he is a leading citizen and a farmer of much note. The parents of James
M.-James T. and Mary Orman-came to Alabama when the country was but sparsely
settled and the Indian was lord of the soil, and were consequently among the
oldest families of the state. The maternal grandparents of William A. were
Benjamin and Elizabeth (Ramsey) Hancock, of Tennessee, who were also among the
pioneers of Alabama. William A. Orman was educated in his native county, and was
engaged in planting until 1874, having begun at the age of twenty-one with no
capital, but he now owns 950 acres of good land, of which 600 acres are under
cultivation. In 1874 he entered upon his mercantile career, which he has ever
since continued with gratifying success, and has become one of the
representative men of the county. December 29, 1880, Mr. Orman married Miss
Kate, daughter of Washington P. Nance, of Alabama, and he is now the father of
four children, named Mattie L., William A., Mary P., and Bettie L. Fraternally,
Mr. Orman is a Knight of Pythias.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1030-1031
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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