This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: RobertLJackson29 Surnames: GORMAN, OTTINGER, SEARCY Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties.greene/9936/mb.ashx Message Board Post: THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, December 7, 1922, Volume XLVII, Number 4, Page 4, Column 3, 'DEATH'S HARVEST-GORMAN' [Transcribed on February 28, 2008 by RLJ from microfilm of the original newspaper on file in the Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library.] Thomas B. GORMAN was born at Macon, {Bibb County,} Georgia, on the 12th day of October 1844, and died at Bloomfield, Indiana, on December 3, 1922; aged seventy-eight years, one month and twenty-one days. He was the only son of Dr. Thomas and Martha (SEARCY) GORMAN. His father died when he was ten years of age, and he sleeps in Rosehill Cemetery on the banks of the Okmulgee River. He entered a select school at the age of seven, as there were no public schools in the South at that time. At the age of twelve, after completing his courses in Latin and Greek under Rev. Jacob DANFORTH, he was sent to the Georgia Military Institute, whose officers and teachers were graduates of West Point. At the age of sixteen he enlisted in the 29th Georgia Battalion of Confederate Cavalry and was with General LEE at Richmond at the time of his surrender. He never held any malice toward the North, as he often said, 'each side was doing what they conceived to be right.' At the close of the Civil War he had charge of summer resorts and hotels in the following cities: Tallahassee, Florida; Morristown and Rhea Springs, Tennessee; Charleston, West Virginia; Keomezee Springs, Kentucky; Danville and Indianapolis, whence he moved to Bloomfield in 1908 and had charge of the Elmora {Hotel} until 1916, retiring after the death of his wife. He spent the remaining years of his life in Bloomfield, and died at the home of his son, John B. GORMAN, after an illness of more than a year. He emphasized the great fundamentals of character, such as truthfulness, honor, honesty, and the like. These he taught his children; these he practiced in his own life. He loved flowers; he loved dumb animals and made pets; he loved fin poetry; he loved folks. His life-work was to be host of the traveling public. In these things were seen the charms and gentleness of his nature. He was a Presbyterian; his wife was a Methodist. Each allowed the other to live in that religious communtion in which he had been trained and where he felt most at home, without causing the slightest unpleasantness in the home life. Both are now gone to their reward. Funeral services, conducted by Elder T. A. COX, assisted by Rev. E. E. ALDRICH, were held in the home where he died on Monday afternoon, December 4, 1922. Interment in Grandview Cemetery. He leaves to mourn his departure, two sons, George GORMAN, Indianapolis, and John GORMAN, Bloomfield, and two daughters, Miss Viola GORMAN, Indianapolis, and Miss Rhea GORMAN. The floral tributes were profuse and beautiful. - Link to the Obituary of his wife, Scytha Josephine (OTTINGER) GORMAN [1859TN-1916IN]: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties.greene/6073/mb.ashx - Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.