Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1885,
Hardin Co.

RICHARD MARION MOREMEN. The Moremen family are of English descent. Jesse
Moremen, the grandfather of our subject, came from Virginia to Kentucky in
the early part of the nineteenth century, and settled near Brandenburg, in
Meade County. He was the father of eight children, of whom Jesse Moremen,
Jr., father of Richard, was the third. The marriage of Jesse Moremen, Jr.,
occurred in 1816, with Martha Stith, daughter of Thomas and Rhoda (Jones)
Stith, of Meade County, soon after which event he moved to Hardin County,
about a mile from where the subject of this sketch now resides. Richard M.
Moremen is the eighth of eleven children, only six of whom are living.
Jesse Moremen, Jr., owned 3,300 acres of land in Hardin and Meade Counties,
only about 1,400 acres of which vast body were in cultivation, and only 650
acres of which is at present in the possession of his children. His death
occurred November 6, 1856, in the sixty-third year of his age. Richard
Moremen's advantages for an education were very poor; inferior, irregular
schools, and a general scarcity of them, were the characteristics of the
educational advantages of that day, so when he reached man's estate his
education was very limited; but since, he has improved by application at
home, and reading the current literature of the day. He married, April 10,
1853, Miss Mary Hills, daughter of Jonathan and Lucy (Lincoln) Hills, of
Elizabethtown, Ky., which marriage was blessed by the birth of one child,
John David Moremen, born October 1, 1855. The death of his wife occurred in
her twenty-third year, June 17, 1856. His second marriage occurred in 1860,
to Miss Lucy Gray, daughter of Gideon and Judith Ann (Robertson) Gray, of
Big Spring, Meade County. The names of his children by the second union are
Annetta (born January 13, 1861, married Perry Carman, February 25, 1885),
Pattie Lena (born March 1, 1863, married Robert Morris Hill, November 19,
1885), Jesse Simeon (born June 5, 1865), and Gideon Ozro (born January 10,
1868). In January, 1872, Mrs. Moremen was very badly burned by the
explosion of a coal oil lamp, and although she lived five months afterward,
the burns caused her death, June 10, 1872. Mr. Moremen settled on his
present location, a fine farm of 316 acres, in a high state of cultivation,
in 1854, and he has since followed farming, turning his attention
principally to wheat, of which he has raised, one year with another,
eighteen bushels to the acre. He has a comfortable residence on his place,
good barns and stables, and all appliances necessary to successful farming.
His farm is one of sixteen on the tract which belonged to this father. He
is a member of May's Grove congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, of which he is a trustee; was once a member of the P. of H., but
never of any other secret organization. He is a Democrat, but never held
office, and also favors Prohibition.

Moremen Stith Jones Hills Lincoln Gray Robertson Carman Hill
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England VA Meade-KY

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