Emily W. Moorman

Brief Life History of Emily W.

When Emily W. Moorman was born on 4 March 1825, in Campbell, Virginia, United States, her father, Samuel Moorman, was 32 and her mother, Lucy W. Johnson, was 24. She married David Leach on 1 January 1854, in Clinton, Ohio, United States. She lived in Xenia, Greene, Ohio, United States in 1850 and Ohio, United States in 1870.

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David Leach
1821–
Emily W. Moorman
1825–
Marriage: 1 January 1854

Sources (5)

  • Emily Teach in household of Barnet Morman, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Emily Monnan, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
  • Emily Monnan in entry for David Leach, "Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958"

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World Events (8)

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

1836 · Kirtland Temple Dedicated

On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.

1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War

Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.

Name Meaning

English (Isle of Wight and Gloucestershire): topographic or occupational name from Middle English more ‘moor, marsh, fen’ + man ‘man’, either in the sense ‘person who lives on a moor’ or ‘official who is responsible for an area of moor or the grazing on it’.

Dutch: variant of Moerman .

Americanized form of North German Moormann: variant of Mohrmann .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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