Robert Moorman

Robert Glenn Moorman was a South Carolina planter and politician.

Family

Parents - Thomas Samuel Moorman & Jemima Glenn Sims born 1786

Sister - Elizabeth D. Moorman born 1818, wife of Reuben Sims Chick

First Wife - Mary L. Kenner died 1845, daughter of Samuel Eskridge Kenner & Lucy Goree

Child with Mary - Thomas Samuel Moorman, lawyer and Librarian of the South Carolina Supreme Court in the 1890s

Second Wife - Virginia C. Harrington, daughter of Young John Harrington & Nancy Berry Calmes

Children with Virginia:

Mary Adelaide Moorman
Elizabeth Theresa Moorman
Robert Glenn Moorman Jr.
Nancy H. Moorman born 1858

Robert was grandfather of Thomas Samuel Moorman - Colonel U.S. Army

Great-grandfather of Thomas Samuel Moorman – Lt. Gen USAF, Superintendent United States [Air Force Academy] 1965 - 1970

Great-great-grandfather of Thomas S. Moorman Jr. - General USAF

Government and military service

South Carolina [House of Representatives] 1848 - 1852
South Carolina Senate 1852 - 1855, resigned due to poor health, later served 1864 - 1865
In October 1865 lost to Col. James H. Williams in race for State Senate representing Newberry District by vote of 401 to 369.
Lt. Col. on staff of S.C. Gov. John Hugh Means 1852 - 1854
Signed S.C. Secession document as delegate to the Ordinance of Secession Convention in December, 1860 representing Newberry County, South Carolina with Simeon Fair, John P. Kinard & Joseph Caldwell
Member of the South Carolina Soldier's Board of Relief 1861 - 1864
Second Lt. South Carolina Volunteers, 3rd Regiment, C.S.A.
General information

Robert Moorman owned a large plantation near Maybinton, Newberry County, South Carolina, where he also bred horses. He was an ardent States' Rights supporter. He was not a college graduate, liked dancing and was a devoted Christian of the Methodist faith. After moving to the town of Newberry, South Carolina from Maybinton in 1866, he was a business partner with Albert G. Maybin and brothers Reuben Sims Chick and Pettus Wales Chick in a Newberry, South Carolina mercantile company named Moorman & Maybin. He also owned a grocery in Mollohon Row in Newberry. He was a Director of Newberry National Bank 1871. he died at his home in Newberry on October 5, 1873, buried Rosemont Cemetery, Newberry, South Carolina. His tombstone inscription is: "Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace"

Robert Moorman

Family

Government and military service

General information