Notes:
Data source is the 1971 self published book by Richard Glenn Huffman [deceased], "George Muma Genealogy".
HISTORY OF WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO pp 1025-1024
REV. R. M. MOOMAW
Among the honored and respected citizens of East Union township, Wayne county, Ohio, none stands higher in the esteem of his fellow citizens than the gentleman whose name appears at the head of this sketch. As a minister of the gospel of Christ he has exerted a beneficent influence over hundreds with whom he has come in contact personally or through the pulpit, while as a private citizen lie has won for himself an enviable reputation. He has by a life of sterling integrity and persistent industry honored the community in which lie lives and he is eminently entitled to represention in a work of this character.
Rev. R. M. Moomaw was horn in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, October 11, 1875. In tracing his ancestry in the agnatic line, it is learned that he is descended from one Peter Moomaw, who was a native of Germany, where he was reared and educated. He came to America in a very early day and settled in Pennsylvania, where he married and reared a family. Among his children was Martin, who had a son Peter, who was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Peter Moomaw came from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1834 and settled in Tuscarawas county, where he spent his remaining years and died. He was a miller by trade and was engaged in the operation of a grist-mill for many years, being a prominent and well-known mail in that county for many years. His son Martin, father of the subject, was born in, Tuscarawas county, and in that county he was reared, lived his entire life and died. He married Elizabeth Keim and they became the parents of eleven children, of whom seven are now living, four of them being residents of Wayne county. Those living are Samuel, George, Sarah, Martin G., Anna L., R. M. and C. C.
R. M. Moomaw was reared on his father's farm and early became accustomed to the arduous labors incident thereto, being an able assistant to his father. He received a good common school education, which he liberally supplemented by attendance at the normal school at Stone Creek and the Smithville Academy. He then engaged in teaching school in which vocation he was employed eight terms. Subsequently he became a minister in the Church of the Brethren and is still engaged in the work of this sacred calling. He is the owner of a splendid little farm of thirty-six acres in Fast Union township, where he resides and which he is engaged in operating during the active farm season, while during the winter season the greater part of his time is devoted to the work of his church. Scholarly, deeply pious, devotedly attached to his church, a vigorous and honest preacher, and an excellent citizen, lie has proven a power for good wherever he has proclaimed the Christ message and many have been influenced through his persuasions to live better lives. As an agriculturist, the subject has attained a definite success. Though his farm is not as large as many about him, none have received more faithful and painstaking attention and under his careful management the place has been made to return a nice profit to its owner. He has made a number of good improvements on the place and here he carries on a general line of operations, raising all the crops common to this section of the country.
On the 1st day of January, 1901, Rev. Moomaw was united in marriage to Ada May Murphy, who was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, May 1, 1879 where she was reared and secured a good education in the common and normal schools. This union has been a most happy and congenial one and has been blessed in the birth of two children, namely: Lois May, born May 4, 1906, and Miriam Elizabeth, born October 10, 1907.
1940: Green, Wayne, Ohio
Robert Moomaw 64
Ada M Moomaw 60
Ronald Schenk 27
Pauline C Schenk 18