Special
Someone Sunday
Sallie DeHaven Sterett Moorman
1851 - 1941
By Jospeh M.
Smith
Sallie DeHaven Sterett Moorman was born at
the Sterett place near the Hancock-Breckinridge
line in 1851, the daughter of Baird and Elizabeth
Haynes Sterett. She attended Nazareth
College, one of the first women in Breckinridge
County to go to college. In 1875 she
married Dr. Jesse Lewis Moorman, a dentist who
first practiced in Adairville but moved to
Cloverport. On Feb. 17, 1876, she gave
birth to the first of her six children; the
child, Mary Burr Moorman, was quite premature,
weighing only 1 1/2 pounds, and was not expected
to live. She not only lived, but thrived;
she was my grandmother!
A 1928 publication, A History of Kentucky,
provides numerous biographical portraits of
notable Kentuckians, and devotes a page to
Sallie, characterizing her: "Mrs. Moorman
has long been an active member of the Baptist
church and the Women's Missionary Society.
She was the organizer and is a past regent of
Edward DeHaven Chapter, D.A.R., and was also one
of the organizers of the Cloverport Reading Club,
of which she is still a member. She
supports the Democratic Party and during the
World War did effectual work for the Red Cross
society."
The picture accompanying this sketch is likely
from 1940 or early 1941, as she died Feb. 27,
1941.
