How Mary E. Moorman is related to the Stiths:
Note from Jon Whitfield, March 2000.
See below. Looks like Mary was granddaughter of William White Moorman. Some other loose ends are there to be straightened out also.
From the Breckinridge County archives: Mary E. Moorman was born 10-6-1866 and died 7-20-1945. She was the daughter of William White Moorman and Lucretia Webb Moorman. William White was the son of James Venable Moorman and Catherine White. Lucretia was the daughter of Hugh Lewis Moorman and Harriet Owen. Lucretia was a Moorman before she married a Moorman. William White Moorman and Lucretia Moorman's grandfathers were brothers. Their grandfathers' brother married a Stith. Three sons of this brother married Stiths. Jesse Adams Moorman married Elizabeth Buckner Stith, daughter of Richard Stith and Lucy Hall.3 sons of Jesse and Elizabeth married Stiths. 1. Alanson Moorman married Rachel Stith, daughter of Benjamin @. Stith and Phoebe Cox. 2. Achilles Venable Moorman married Elizabeth Jones Stith, daughter of Thomas Stith and Rhoda Jones. 3 Jesse Paxton Moorman married Martha Stith, daughter of Thomas Stith and Rhoda Jones.
2 daughters of Achilles Moorman and Elizabeth Jones Stith married Stiths. 1 Rhoda Ann Moorman married Richard Stith, son of William Stith and Nancy Jones. 2. Cinderella Moorman married Buckner Jones Stith, son of Richard Stith and Elizabeth Jones.
Thomas Stith, who married Rhoda Jones, was the brother of Elizabeth Buckner Stith who married Jesse Adams Moorman.
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002
From the 1880 and 1900 census, Mary E. Moorman is the daughter of James H. Moorman and his
wife Susan. 1900 census gives her dob as Oct 1866.
James and Susan also have children Charles, James, Rosa, Edna, Harry, Jesse. Mary is the
third child between James and Rosa.
According to other trees on RootsWeb, James H. Moorman is son of William White Moorman and
Mary Polly Haynes. Susan's maiden name is Newman.
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Larry Sullivan