Biographical Sketch of Samuel P. Moorman, De Kalb County, Missouri

>From "History of Missouri, Andrew & DeKalb County" Published 1888,
				Goodspeed Publishing Company

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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Samuel P. Moorman, dealer in agricultural implements at Osborne, is a
native of Roanoke County, VA., born on December 27, 1847.  He is the
youngest of ten children born to James M. and Mary G. (McDaniel)
Moorman, both of Scotch-Irish descent, and natives of Bedford County,
VA.  After their marriage, about 1832, they settled on a farm in their 
native county, but in 1846 removed to Roanoke County, where the father
died on March 18, 1875, in his sixty-fourth year.  The mother is still
living, and makes her home with her son, Samuel P.  She is sixty-five
years of age, and a member of the church.  The father was also a mem-
ber.  Politically, the father was a Democrat, and he had four sons who
served in the Confederate service during the late war.  Two sons were
killed, William B. at Antietam, September 11, 1862, and John A., at
Cedar Run, VA., on August 9, 1862.  Samuel P. spent his boyhood on his
father's farm, and received a fair education in the public schools.  
When seventeen years of age, he entered the Confederate States' service
enlisting in Company E of Cook's regiment, but was later transferred to
the Valley of Virginia, under Gen. J.A. Early.  At the close of the war
he served an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade in his native 
State, and in 1868 came to Missouri, and worked at his trade two years
in Clay County, then coming to Clinton County.  On December 18, 1871, 
he was united in marriage with Miss Corinthia Thorp, of Clay County, MO.
He resided in Clinton County about ten years, and was engaged in farm-
ing the last nine years.  His wife died on May 2, 1877, and on July 6,
1878, he removed to De Kalb County.  After working at his trade two
years, he located on a farm in Colfax Township, where he remained until
March, 1886, when he came to Osborne, and began his present business.
In connection with his mercantile business he has a livery stable, 
which he opened in 1887.  He is the father of three children:  William
B., Myra C., and Anna, who died in infancy.  Politically he is a
Democrat.  His wife died a member of the Primitive Baptist Church.

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