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Author: RobertLJackson29
Surnames: GORMAN, OTTINGER, SEARCY
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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.
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