With unbidden repidity the death angel has come into our midst and taken
from us a citizen, full of hope, buyancy and the courage of young manhood. The most humble as well as the most gifted were the reciepient of his favor.
Always anxious to promote the best yet never wounding by a hasty criticism that would blast the ambition of the less capable.
Inspired by the capabilities of this mother who patiently directed his
studies, he quickly advanced in his musical education, and constantly enjoyed
the distinction of a leader amoung his associates in the sciences and art of
music.
He has been a constant inhabitant of this community since March 14, 1879 and the book of his life as a child, boy and citizen has been open for the full inspection of this grief stricken place.
Walter H. Moorman attended to the common duties of life in such a manner
as to win the affection of those who were closely associated with him. Not
over confident he frequently hastened to an indulgent father and gratefully
acted on his advice in matters of preplexing business questions. His was too
fine a texture to be congenial with the stern rigor of the commercial world.
There was too much sympathy in his bosom for the unfortunate to apply the
exacting law of the money maker, thus the poor man was sure of more than fair
treatment in his settlements with Walter.
Soon after his marriage July 26, 1899 to Otho F. Farlow, they moved to the Morgandale and were engaged in farming and stock raising until 1903 when they returned to Winchester and a partnership was formed with William R. Way, an experienced grocer and the new firm enjoyed a properous business from the state to the date of his early death which occured 27 Sep 1907 at the age of 28 years, 6 months and 13 days. To him and his very faithful wife were born two sons, Russel Franklin and Edwin Farlow. How bewildered is the wife and mother as she realized hourly her bereavement. How great the magnitude of the loss of these little ones.
We cannot help referring to his homelife, for Walter challenges our
admiration there. How kind, how thoughtful, hwo sympathetic he was. Ask his
mother, his father, his wife. In his own happy home he made welome his many
friends, and there one felt his devotion. To his wife and little ones, a
devotion that proved itself by his thougthfulness to them.
What one saw in the sunny chil, they saw mature in the gneial man. Water
had that faculty of adapting himself to all classes and ages. He knew how to
attract the young and cheer the aged. His circle of friends was large and ever widening. He impressed his friends with his splendid traits character.
Friendship's voice is always sweet, and was listened to Walter's call to
friendship with the greatest delight, for many times it has been the means of
calming our troubled spirits and driving care away. Many a burden has been
lightened, and many a sorrow has been smoothed by the helpfulness and sympathy of this friend. Lives like Walter's mean much to a community. When they leave it they are not forgotten. They have an immortality here as well as the hereafter. They live on in the influence and impulses for goo they have kindled in the hearts of others.
His church that he has been so interested in, and every worthy cause that is for the betterment of humanity found in him a willing worked and strong supporter. His christianity married him to all the nobler traits of manhood, as honest, integrity, mecty, truth and loyalty. In fact, these wehre part of his life. They infused strength into his being. I pay him the hightest tribute when I say he was one of us. He belonged to the parliament of man and the federation of the world. He was gifted with a voice that was morvelous in its sweetness and clearness. His voice lessens the volume and sweetness of the choir here, but the volume and sweetness of the choir invisible in increased for we believe that he sings yonder today in the city, whose builder and make is God. He was a birthright and faithful member of the Friends Church in this city.
He leaves behing the mourn because of the separation, father, mother, wife, two sons, two brothers, grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, relatives and friends almost innumerable. Heaven seems more like Heaven than ever.
Funeral servies were conducted by Rev. W. J. Sayers, at the Friends Church Sunday afternoon Music was fournished by the Friends Choir and the Male Chorus of which he was the director. Interment at Fountain Park Cem.Walter Moorman, aged about thiry years, died at his home in this city at 2
o'clock last Friday morning. On the previous Saturday he was stricken with
appendicitis. An operation was performed on Monday. He rallied nicely from
the operation and seemed on his way to recovery, when complications set in, and despite the best that medical skill could do, died as above stated. He was a prominent young business man, being a member of the grocery firm of Way and Morman. He was a social favorite, and will be sadly missed by host of
relatives and friends. He was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. T.F. Moorman. He leaves a wife and two small children. Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon Rev. Sayers, officiating. Interment at Fountain Park.
When, in the providence of our Heavenly Father, one of His beings, created
in His own image, after travleing for almost seventy-five years with the
caravan of humanity, moving from the servitude of past ages into which it had
fallen, toward its goal of freedom, departs therefrom into the mysterious
future, naturally we are prone to inquire as to whether the journey he has
traveled was worth the effort - the life he lived was worth the living; and as
in these obsequies we lay to rest the earthly remains of Luther L. Moorman, we
would seek an answer to this inquiry as to him, by astrospectively viewing the
life that he has lived in our midst.
Luther L. Moorman was born March 14, 1844 and died November 15, 1918. His
father, John A. Moorman came to this country from North Carolina and at the
time of his death was living in Farmland, Ind. He was a minister of the
gospel, and was at one time a member of the Indiana Legisisture. His mother's
maiden name was Nancy Hiatt. Both the Moorman and the Hiatt families have been
so prominently and favorably connected with the history of Randolph county that
to be related to either of them may well be esteemed as an honor.
July 6, 1861 soon after the beginning of the war, he enlisted in the
service for a three year's service, but because of failing health he was
discharged from service in the following February. Regaining his health,
however, he en-enlisted as a soldier in Company F., 55 Indiana Volunteers in
which company he served as First Duty Sergeant, until he was mustered out with
his regiment. He was unfortunate in the loss of his companions whom he chose
in holy matrimony to make life's journey with him, but after each of his losses
fortunate in his choice of the one who should fill the place of the departed
one. He was married four times. He was married to this first wife, Amanda
McCracken in 1863. By this marriage there were four children of whom two,
James A. and an infant, are not living. Robert and Jesse survive their father.
Frank M. Moorman, a son of Robert, is now a Lieutenamt in the army of this
country, and is or has been helping to fight her battles "
Somewhere in France." Marie, the only daughter and child of Jesse, lives with
her parents in WInchester, and has been a great comfort to her grandfather in
his declining years.
The first wife died March 9, 1874, and on march 27, 1875, he was married to
her sister, Elizabeth McCracken. To this marriage one child, Clyde A., was
born, who survives his father. All of his sons were present at the burial
service. He is also survived by his sister, Mrs. Nancy E. Huffman his
half-sister, Mrs. Malinda Deselm, Eva Burres, and Mrs. Vina Greenwell, and his
half brother, John A. Moorman.
Elizabeth died in 1888, and in 1891 he was married to Lillie Yunker, whose
good character and splendid qualities are well known in this community. She
died in 1901 and in the year 1902 he was married to Adelia Ann Mount fo
Montgomery County, Ohio. At the time of her marriage to Mr. Moorman, Mrs.
Adelia Moorman was a stranger to the people of this community, but since her
marriage, she was resided in Winchester and by her kindly disposition and by
her devotion to her husband, she has endeared herself to all who know her, and
particularly to those who know and have been favored by her devoted care of her
husband in his declining years.
Mr. Moorman was elected Justice of the Peace of White River township before
he was twenty-one years old, and afterward as trustee of Green township, this
county, for two years, in which township he resided for many years, and while
yet residing there he was elected as County Commissioner of Randolph County, in
which office he served from December 1885 to December 1888. He was elected as
a member of the County Council in the year 1900, in which office he served by
repeated elections till the year 1910. He was apraiser of lands for
school-fund loans for about five years. There can be no higher commendation of
his public service, or no stronger expression of the esteem in which he was
helf by his fellow citizens than the fact that he was so often called to
administer responsible offices of public trust.
He was a grandson of a brother of James Moorman, by whom he was well known
all of his life, and when that venerated citizen, by his will, established the
James Moorman's Orphans' Home, he named his grandson, Luther L. Moorman as one
of the trustees thereof, in which capacity he served until his death, and
during which time that institution has become one of the substantial benevolent
institutions of the state of Indiana.
There are some of the reponsible public activities with which the name of
Luther L. Moorman has been intimately connected, and if we may apply to his
life the proverbial quotation from holy write that "By their fruits ye shall
know them," then we must say of him: "Well done, good and faithful servant."
But there must be some sourcefrom which he derived the inspiration for the
service of good works wihc he was performed. It6 is found in this that he was
a Christian and a believer in the divinity of the Christ, and the inspiration
of His Holy Word. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at the
time of this death, and had been for many years. When his health premitted, he
was a faithful attendant at his local place of worship.
He kept the faith and finished his course, dying as a CHristian, and while
we mourn the loss of one who will be missed in the community in which he live,d
it is with confidence that we commend him for reward to the One who knoweth all
things, and doeth all things well.
When, in the providence of our Heavenly Father, one of His beings, created
in His own image, after travleing for almost seventy-five years with the
caravan of humanity, moving from the servitude of past ages into which it had
fallen, toward its goal of freedom, departs therefrom into the mysterious
future, naturally we are prone to inquire as to whether the journey he has
traveled was worth the effort - the life he lived was worth the living; and as
in these obsequies we lay to rest the earthly remains of Luther L. Moorman, we
would seek an answer to this inquiry as to him, by astrospectively viewing the
life that he has lived in our midst.
Luther L. Moorman was born March 14, 1844 and died November 15, 1918. His
father, John A. Moorman came to this country from North Carolina and at the
time of his death was living in Farmland, Ind. He was a minister of the
gospel, and was at one time a member of the Indiana Legisisture. His mother's
maiden name was Nancy Hiatt. Both the Moorman and the Hiatt families have been
so prominently and favorably connected with the history of Randolph county that
to be related to either of them may well be esteemed as an honor.
July 6, 1861 soon after the beginning of the war, he enlisted in the
service for a three year's service, but because of failing health he was
discharged from service in the following February. Regaining his health,
however, he en-enlisted as a soldier in Company F., 55 Indiana Volunteers in
which company he served as First Duty Sergeant, until he was mustered out with
his regiment. He was unfortunate in the loss of his companions whom he chose
in holy matrimony to make life's journey with him, but after each of his losses
fortunate in his choice of the one who should fill the place of the departed
one. He was married four times. He was married to this first wife, Amanda
McCracken in 1863. By this marriage there were four children of whom two,
James A. and an infant, are not living. Robert and Jesse survive their father.
Frank M. Moorman, a son of Robert, is now a Lieutenamt in the army of this
country, and is or has been helping to fight her battles "
Somewhere in France." Marie, the only daughter and child of Jesse, lives with
her parents in WInchester, and has been a great comfort to her grandfather in
his declining years.
The first wife died March 9, 1874, and on march 27, 1875, he was married to
her sister, Elizabeth McCracken. To this marriage one child, Clyde A., was
born, who survives his father. All of his sons were present at the burial
service. He is also survived by his sister, Mrs. Nancy E. Huffman his
half-sister, Mrs. Malinda Deselm, Eva Burres, and Mrs. Vina Greenwell, and his
half brother, John A. Moorman.
Elizabeth died in 1888, and in 1891 he was married to Lillie Yunker, whose
good character and splendid qualities are well known in this community. She
died in 1901 and in the year 1902 he was married to Adelia Ann Mount fo
Montgomery County, Ohio. At the time of her marriage to Mr. Moorman, Mrs.
Adelia Moorman was a stranger to the people of this community, but since her
marriage, she was resided in Winchester and by her kindly disposition and by
her devotion to her husband, she has endeared herself to all who know her, and
particularly to those who know and have been favored by her devoted care of her
husband in his declining years.
Mr. Moorman was elected Justice of the Peace of White River township before
he was twenty-one years old, and afterward as trustee of Green township, this
county, for two years, in which township he resided for many years, and while
yet residing there he was elected as County Commissioner of Randolph County, in
which office he served from December 1885 to December 1888. He was elected as
a member of the County Council in the year 1900, in which office he served by
repeated elections till the year 1910. He was apraiser of lands for
school-fund loans for about five years. There can be no higher commendation of
his public service, or no stronger expression of the esteem in which he was
helf by his fellow citizens than the fact that he was so often called to
administer responsible offices of public trust.
He was a grandson of a brother of James Moorman, by whom he was well known
all of his life, and when that venerated citizen, by his will, established the
James Moorman's Orphans' Home, he named his grandson, Luther L. Moorman as one
of the trustees thereof, in which capacity he served until his death, and
during which time that institution has become one of the substantial benevolent
institutions of the state of Indiana.
There are some of the reponsible public activities with which the name of
Luther L. Moorman has been intimately connected, and if we may apply to his
life the proverbial quotation from holy write that "By their fruits ye shall
know them," then we must say of him: "Well done, good and faithful servant."
But there must be some sourcefrom which he derived the inspiration for the
service of good works wihc he was performed. It6 is found in this that he was
a Christian and a believer in the divinity of the Christ, and the inspiration
of His Holy Word. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at the
time of this death, and had been for many years. When his health premitted, he
was a faithful attendant at his local place of worship.
He kept the faith and finished his course, dying as a CHristian, and while
we mourn the loss of one who will be missed in the community in which he live,d
it is with confidence that we commend him for reward to the One who knoweth all
things, and doeth all things well.
When, in the providence of our Heavenly Father, one of His beings, created
in His own image, after travleing for almost seventy-five years with the
caravan of humanity, moving from the servitude of past ages into which it had
fallen, toward its goal of freedom, departs therefrom into the mysterious
future, naturally we are prone to inquire as to whether the journey he has
traveled was worth the effort - the life he lived was worth the living; and as
in these obsequies we lay to rest the earthly remains of Luther L. Moorman, we
would seek an answer to this inquiry as to him, by astrospectively viewing the
life that he has lived in our midst.
Luther L. Moorman was born March 14, 1844 and died November 15, 1918. His
father, John A. Moorman came to this country from North Carolina and at the
time of his death was living in Farmland, Ind. He was a minister of the
gospel, and was at one time a member of the Indiana Legisisture. His mother's
maiden name was Nancy Hiatt. Both the Moorman and the Hiatt families have been
so prominently and favorably connected with the history of Randolph county that
to be related to either of them may well be esteemed as an honor.
July 6, 1861 soon after the beginning of the war, he enlisted in the
service for a three year's service, but because of failing health he was
discharged from service in the following February. Regaining his health,
however, he en-enlisted as a soldier in Company F., 55 Indiana Volunteers in
which company he served as First Duty Sergeant, until he was mustered out with
his regiment. He was unfortunate in the loss of his companions whom he chose
in holy matrimony to make life's journey with him, but after each of his losses
fortunate in his choice of the one who should fill the place of the departed
one. He was married four times. He was married to this first wife, Amanda
McCracken in 1863. By this marriage there were four children of whom two,
James A. and an infant, are not living. Robert and Jesse survive their father.
Frank M. Moorman, a son of Robert, is now a Lieutenamt in the army of this
country, and is or has been helping to fight her battles "
Somewhere in France." Marie, the only daughter and child of Jesse, lives with
her parents in WInchester, and has been a great comfort to her grandfather in
his declining years.
The first wife died March 9, 1874, and on march 27, 1875, he was married to
her sister, Elizabeth McCracken. To this marriage one child, Clyde A., was
born, who survives his father. All of his sons were present at the burial
service. He is also survived by his sister, Mrs. Nancy E. Huffman his
half-sister, Mrs. Malinda Deselm, Eva Burres, and Mrs. Vina Greenwell, and his
half brother, John A. Moorman.
Elizabeth died in 1888, and in 1891 he was married to Lillie Yunker, whose
good character and splendid qualities are well known in this community. She
died in 1901 and in the year 1902 he was married to Adelia Ann Mount fo
Montgomery County, Ohio. At the time of her marriage to Mr. Moorman, Mrs.
Adelia Moorman was a stranger to the people of this community, but since her
marriage, she was resided in Winchester and by her kindly disposition and by
her devotion to her husband, she has endeared herself to all who know her, and
particularly to those who know and have been favored by her devoted care of her
husband in his declining years.
Mr. Moorman was elected Justice of the Peace of White River township before
he was twenty-one years old, and afterward as trustee of Green township, this
county, for two years, in which township he resided for many years, and while
yet residing there he was elected as County Commissioner of Randolph County, in
which office he served from December 1885 to December 1888. He was elected as
a member of the County Council in the year 1900, in which office he served by
repeated elections till the year 1910. He was apraiser of lands for
school-fund loans for about five years. There can be no higher commendation of
his public service, or no stronger expression of the esteem in which he was
helf by his fellow citizens than the fact that he was so often called to
administer responsible offices of public trust.
He was a grandson of a brother of James Moorman, by whom he was well known
all of his life, and when that venerated citizen, by his will, established the
James Moorman's Orphans' Home, he named his grandson, Luther L. Moorman as one
of the trustees thereof, in which capacity he served until his death, and
during which time that institution has become one of the substantial benevolent
institutions of the state of Indiana.
There are some of the reponsible public activities with which the name of
Luther L. Moorman has been intimately connected, and if we may apply to his
life the proverbial quotation from holy write that "By their fruits ye shall
know them," then we must say of him: "Well done, good and faithful servant."
But there must be some sourcefrom which he derived the inspiration for the
service of good works wihc he was performed. It6 is found in this that he was
a Christian and a believer in the divinity of the Christ, and the inspiration
of His Holy Word. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at the
time of this death, and had been for many years. When his health premitted, he
was a faithful attendant at his local place of worship.
He kept the faith and finished his course, dying as a CHristian, and while
we mourn the loss of one who will be missed in the community in which he live,d
it is with confidence that we commend him for reward to the One who knoweth all
things, and doeth all things well.
When, in the providence of our Heavenly Father, one of His beings, created
in His own image, after travleing for almost seventy-five years with the
caravan of humanity, moving from the servitude of past ages into which it had
fallen, toward its goal of freedom, departs therefrom into the mysterious
future, naturally we are prone to inquire as to whether the journey he has
traveled was worth the effort - the life he lived was worth the living; and as
in these obsequies we lay to rest the earthly remains of Luther L. Moorman, we
would seek an answer to this inquiry as to him, by astrospectively viewing the
life that he has lived in our midst.
Luther L. Moorman was born March 14, 1844 and died November 15, 1918. His
father, John A. Moorman came to this country from North Carolina and at the
time of his death was living in Farmland, Ind. He was a minister of the
gospel, and was at one time a member of the Indiana Legisisture. His mother's
maiden name was Nancy Hiatt. Both the Moorman and the Hiatt families have been
so prominently and favorably connected with the history of Randolph county that
to be related to either of them may well be esteemed as an honor.
July 6, 1861 soon after the beginning of the war, he enlisted in the
service for a three year's service, but because of failing health he was
discharged from service in the following February. Regaining his health,
however, he en-enlisted as a soldier in Company F., 55 Indiana Volunteers in
which company he served as First Duty Sergeant, until he was mustered out with
his regiment. He was unfortunate in the loss of his companions whom he chose
in holy matrimony to make life's journey with him, but after each of his losses
fortunate in his choice of the one who should fill the place of the departed
one. He was married four times. He was married to this first wife, Amanda
McCracken in 1863. By this marriage there were four children of whom two,
James A. and an infant, are not living. Robert and Jesse survive their father.
Frank M. Moorman, a son of Robert, is now a Lieutenamt in the army of this
country, and is or has been helping to fight her battles "
Somewhere in France." Marie, the only daughter and child of Jesse, lives with
her parents in WInchester, and has been a great comfort to her grandfather in
his declining years.
The first wife died March 9, 1874, and on march 27, 1875, he was married to
her sister, Elizabeth McCracken. To this marriage one child, Clyde A., was
born, who survives his father. All of his sons were present at the burial
service. He is also survived by his sister, Mrs. Nancy E. Huffman his
half-sister, Mrs. Malinda Deselm, Eva Burres, and Mrs. Vina Greenwell, and his
half brother, John A. Moorman.
Elizabeth died in 1888, and in 1891 he was married to Lillie Yunker, whose
good character and splendid qualities are well known in this community. She
died in 1901 and in the year 1902 he was married to Adelia Ann Mount fo
Montgomery County, Ohio. At the time of her marriage to Mr. Moorman, Mrs.
Adelia Moorman was a stranger to the people of this community, but since her
marriage, she was resided in Winchester and by her kindly disposition and by
her devotion to her husband, she has endeared herself to all who know her, and
particularly to those who know and have been favored by her devoted care of her
husband in his declining years.
Mr. Moorman was elected Justice of the Peace of White River township before
he was twenty-one years old, and afterward as trustee of Green township, this
county, for two years, in which township he resided for many years, and while
yet residing there he was elected as County Commissioner of Randolph County, in
which office he served from December 1885 to December 1888. He was elected as
a member of the County Council in the year 1900, in which office he served by
repeated elections till the year 1910. He was apraiser of lands for
school-fund loans for about five years. There can be no higher commendation of
his public service, or no stronger expression of the esteem in which he was
helf by his fellow citizens than the fact that he was so often called to
administer responsible offices of public trust.
He was a grandson of a brother of James Moorman, by whom he was well known
all of his life, and when that venerated citizen, by his will, established the
James Moorman's Orphans' Home, he named his grandson, Luther L. Moorman as one
of the trustees thereof, in which capacity he served until his death, and
during which time that institution has become one of the substantial benevolent
institutions of the state of Indiana.
There are some of the reponsible public activities with which the name of
Luther L. Moorman has been intimately connected, and if we may apply to his
life the proverbial quotation from holy write that "By their fruits ye shall
know them," then we must say of him: "Well done, good and faithful servant."
But there must be some sourcefrom which he derived the inspiration for the
service of good works wihc he was performed. It6 is found in this that he was
a Christian and a believer in the divinity of the Christ, and the inspiration
of His Holy Word. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at the
time of this death, and had been for many years. When his health premitted, he
was a faithful attendant at his local place of worship.
He kept the faith and finished his course, dying as a CHristian, and while
we mourn the loss of one who will be missed in the community in which he live,d
it is with confidence that we commend him for reward to the One who knoweth all
things, and doeth all things well.