Talbot County GaArchives Obituaries.....Gorman, William Roscoe January 5, 1910
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The Talbotton New Era, January 13 & 27, 1910
The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, January 13, 1910
Page One

Mr. W.R. Gorman, A Well Known Citizen Of The County Dies

On last Thursday the news reached us too late for our last week’s issue of the 
death of Mr. W.R. Gorman.

Mr. Gorman was living at Gorman’s Mill at the time of his death.  He is the 
brother of Hon. O.D. Gorman, the County School Commissioner.  Other than that, 
we being a stranger, knew very little about Mr. Gorman.

The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, January 27, 1910
Page Seven

About Madame de Stall - The Late W.R. Gorman

Word has come to me in the past few days of the death of Hon. W.R. Gorman at 
the advanced age of 85 years, and I pause in the midst of a rather trying and 
strenuous political contest to pay an imperfect but sincere tribute of 
respect, through the columns of my old home county paper, to the memory of 
this remarkable man.  I was much with him from my early boyhood until early 
manhood, and in spite of the disparity in years there was a bond of sympathy 
and mutual understanding between us, and I prized his company and reciprocated 
his affection and friendship.  I regret that I have not been able to see much 
of him during the past fifteen years, but I have heard from him frequently.  
During the period he has persisted in having family prayer daily and kept it 
up in his hours of weakness when he was able to do nothing else and up to the 
time when he took his bed for the last time.  I learn, too, that his death was 
a beautiful one, if death can ever be thus described – a fading into eternity 
without fever, or fear, or pain.  It is comforting to know this.

Mr. Gorman was a man of rarely cultivated intellect, and interesting 
conversational powers.  When once started, he could take charmingly on a wide 
range of topics.  He had been a great reader and had a retentive memory – a 
well-stored mind – which enabled him to clothe the subjects of conversation 
with peculiar charm.  As a boy I wondered at his complete store of information 
on any subject that came up for discussion.  I am reminded of the remark of 
some statesman about Madame de Stall – that to have known her was to have had 
a liberal education.  Mr. Gorman was also a man of distinctive literary gifts –
 a trait that seems to have run in that family – and as a writer his style was 
exceedingly graceful and attractive.  He was in his element writing stories of 
the chase, and many were his contributions to the old “Turf, Field and Farm,” 
a famous periodical of two or three decades ago.  My recollection is that he 
closed his student days with a course at Harvard college, and throughout all 
the vicissitudes of life he showed the marks of a college bred man.  I have 
often thought he missed his calling and should have had the chair of English 
or economics in some college or university.

He was a close student of public questions and political economy.  He 
represented the county in the Constitutional Convention in 1877, twice in the 
State Senate and some years later came near election to Congress.

Withal Mr. Gorman was of marked originality and I feel that it was good to 
have known him – and to know that he is gone.

Yet he was allowed by a kind providence many years beyond the “allotted time.”

It is not given to many to live 85 years.  He had been married 54 years and no 
doubt his great vitality was largely due to the faithful and self-sacrificing 
attentions of his devoted wife one of the best women I have ever known- who 
lingers to mourn and miss him.  And so the chapter closes in the life of one 
of Talbot county’s most gifted sons.

Armstead Brown


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