{"id":2135,"date":"2018-04-14T11:55:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T16:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2019-01-07T09:47:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T15:47:09","slug":"moorman-achilles-and-james-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/moorman-achilles-and-james-c\/","title":{"rendered":"MOORMAN, Achilles and James C."},"content":{"rendered":"

Family Bible of Achilles Moorman (1773-1815)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bible on display at the Ames Plantation in Fayette County Tennessee. Plaque on the display reads: \u201cThis Bible was purchased ca 1809 at the estate sale of Achilles Moorman<\/strong> by his brother James C. Moorman. Micajah C. Moorman<\/strong> (b. 1775 \u2013 d. 1826), brother of Achilles and James purchased 1,971 acres of land upon which the Ames Manor now stands in 1824. His son-in-law, John Walker Jones, along with Micajah\u2019s widow and children moved to this site ca 1826. It was at this location that John Walker Jones<\/strong> established his Cedar Grove Plantation, the forerunner of today\u2019s Ames Plantation and where he built this Manor House in 1847. Bible donated by Mrs. Anna Elizabeth Baker Thompson, the great-great-great-granddaughter of Micajah Clark Moorman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Written in the Bible<\/b><\/p>\n

The property of Achilles Moorman, in the year of our Lord 1809,<\/p>\n

Price $18.00<\/p>\n

This Bible was purchased by James C. Moorman. The sale of Achilles Moorman dec\u2026<\/p>\n

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Family Records<\/strong><\/p>\n

NOTE: Transcribed information refers to children of Andrew Moorman and are siblings of Achilles Moorman<\/em><\/p>\n

Births <\/strong><\/p>\n

Milly (Mildred)<\/em> Moorman was born Jan 13 1772<\/p>\n

Micajah C. Moorman born Jan 21 1775<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Moorman born November 7 1777<\/p>\n

James C. Moorman born March 10 1779<\/p>\n

Nancy Moorman born July 31 1781<\/p>\n

Lucy Moorman born April 20 1783<\/p>\n

Patsy Moorman born April 30 1785<\/p>\n

Judith Moorman born July 1 1787<\/p>\n

Andrew Moorman born April 18 1791<\/p>\n

Deaths<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lucy Bennett departed this life March 2 1810<\/p>\n

Andrew Moorman my father departed this life March 10 1791<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Moorman departed this life November 7 1809<\/p>\n

Nancy Moorman departed this life November 19 1802<\/p>\n

Andrew Moorman departed life in July 1814<\/p>\n

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Marriages<\/strong><\/p>\n

A. (Achilles)<\/em> Moorman<\/strong> & Dorcas his wife was married March 28 1798<\/p>\n

(at this point the information appears to have been written by James C. Moorman)<\/em><\/p>\n

James C. Moorman<\/strong> & Jane Robinson was married 15 Aug 1799<\/p>\n

James C. Moorman<\/strong> was born 10 March 1779<\/p>\n

Jane Moorman wife of James C. was born Dec 23 1779<\/p>\n

James C. Anderson to Jane R. Moorman was married on the 27 Oct 1819<\/p>\n

Micajah Lynch & Nancy R. Moorman was married on the 27 June 1821<\/p>\n

Henry Clark & Judith Moorman was married on the 27 June 1821<\/p>\n

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Births<\/strong><\/p>\n

A. (Achilles)<\/em> Moorman<\/strong> was born Nov 10 1773<\/p>\n

Dorcas Moorman was born Feb 5 1772<\/p>\n

Thomas J. Moorman was born June 6 1810<\/p>\n

(at this point the information appears to have been written by James C. Moorman)<\/em><\/p>\n

Children births of James<\/strong> & Jane Moorman<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nancy Robinson Moorman was born June 5 1800<\/p>\n

Jane Robinson Moorman was born Sunday 30 May 1802<\/p>\n

Judith Moorman was born 30 Oct 1804<\/p>\n

Matilda Moorman was born Sunday 15 March 1807<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Moorman was born Saturday Dec 30 1809<\/p>\n

Lucinda Jennings Moorman was born Sunday July 19 1812<\/p>\n

Robert Moorman was born Sep 15 1815<\/p>\n

James A. Moorman was born April 19 1818<\/p>\n

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Moorman Family Bible Page 1<\/p><\/div>\n

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Moorman Family Bible Page 2<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Family Bible of Achilles Moorman (1773-1815) Bible on display at the Ames Plantation in Fayette County Tennessee. Plaque on the display reads: \u201cThis Bible was purchased ca 1809 at the estate sale of Achilles Moorman by his brother James C. Moorman. Micajah C. Moorman (b. 1775 \u2013 d. 1826), brother of Achilles and James purchased […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3587],"tags":[3606,3603,3607,3604,3605],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","tag-jones-john-walker","tag-moorman-achilles","tag-moorman-andrew","tag-moorman-james-c","tag-moorman-micajah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}