Brief Life History of John Alexander
When John Alexander Moorman was born on 10 August 1820, in Richmond, North Carolina, United States, his father, Tarlton Moorman, was 37 and his mother, Rebecca Hannah Webb, was 22. He married Nancy A. Hiatt on 22 October 1840, in Randolph, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in White River Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Indiana, United States in 1870. He died on 2 January 1898, in Monroe Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Maxville, White River Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States.
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- J A Moorman, "United States Census, 1870"
- John A Moorman, "Indiana, Marriages, 1811-1959"
- John A. Moorman, "Find A Grave Index"
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1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
1824
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1845
Historical Boundaries 1845: Randolph, Indiana, United States
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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