After moving to the town of Newberry, South Carolina from Maybinton in 1866, he was a business partner with Albert G. (Bert) Maybin and brothers Reuben Sims Chick (also Moorman's brother-in-law) and Pettus Wales Chick in a Newberry, South Carolina mercantile company named Moorman & Maybin.
In 1866, he settled in Newberry, South Carolina from Maybinton, and subsequently formed a business partnership with Albert G. (Bert) Maybin and his brothers Reuben Sims Chick and Pettus Wales Chick in the Newberry, South Carolina retail company Moorman & Maybin.