Benjamin B. Tallman

Iowa State Census Collection, 1836-1925

about Benjamin Talman

Name: Benjamin Talman

Census Date: 1856

Residence County: Jones

Residence State: Iowa

Locality: Hale

Birth Location: Ohio

Family Number: 34 [sic]

Gender: Male

Birth Year: abt 1812

Line: 29

Roll: IA_73

Neighbors:

Household Members: Name Age

Benjamin Talman 44

Romaney Talman 35

Sarah J Talman 20

Miller Talman 14

Amy E Talman 11

Eliza Ellen Talman 9

Nathaniel H Talman 7

Griffin C Talman 3

Romany Talman 1/2

Source Information:

Ancestry.com. Iowa State Census Collection, 1836-1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007. Original data: Microfilm of Iowa State Censuses, 1856, 1885, 1895, 1905, 1915, 1925 as well various special censuses from 1836-1897 obtained from the State Historical Society of Iowa via Heritage Quest.

{ancestry.com database online.] -- found 08/31/2008 cltj.

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14-II Benjamin Tallman (1-12-4-2-14-2) was born May 28, 1811, at Canal Winchester, O., and died

at the age of 70 in Lynn Co., Iowa. He married Sarah Glanville and had one daughter who

married a man named Silver and lived in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Sarah Glanville died in

childbirth, January 1836 and is buried in the Tallman Reservation, Union Grove cemetery,

Canal Winchester, O. He (Benjamin) married 2nd, Romancy Miller, of Millersport, O., Oct.

23, 1837. Romancy was born April 10, 1819, and so was 18 1/2 yrs. of age when she married

Benj. Tallman, age 26. They lived for some time in Millersport, O., then moved to Iowa and

settled in Lynn (Linn) Co. Ben accumulated considerable property and was known as the

richest man in the country. Some of his descendants moved to Minnesota. For a record of

this line of Tallmans, refer to Mrs. Oscar Barkeim (Ruth Tallman, daughter of Fred Tallman),

Lakefield, Minnesota.

Virgil Burdette Tallman (1885-1969) of Canal Winchester, Ohio (Circa 1908), Tallman Genealogical Record, The, (vtallman.pdf; 1994 transcription of a personal research effort performed by Virgil Burdette Tallman), p. 74-75.

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Tallman Bioigraphies Jones County Iowa.txt

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Benjamin B. Tallman

Born May 25, 1812

Romancy Miller Tallman

Born April 10, 1819

Benjamin B. Tallman, the second child of John "Squire" and Elizabeth Harrison Tallman, was probably born May 25, 1812, in Canal Winchester, Ohio. His first marriage was to Sarah Glanville. It was held December 24, 1833. To this marriage only one daughter, Sarah Jane, was born on January 2, 1836. She married David Edwin Silver on January 3, 1858 at Western in Linn county, Iowa. Sarah Jane died December 17, 1889. Many Silver descendants live in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa area. According to the cemetery records published in the Greater Tallman Family Newsletter (issue 11, Autumn 1987, p. 3) Sarah Glanville Tallman died in January, 1836, and was buried in the Tallman Reservation of the Union Grove Cemetery near Canal Winchester, Ohio. This is the same time that her daughter, Sarah Jane was born, so it is probable that the mother died in childbirth or of complications therefrom.

Benjamin's second marriage was to Romancy Miller on October 23 or 25, 1836 or 1837. She was born April 10, 1819, in Millersport, Ohio. She died January 31, 1911, in Rippey, Iowa, and is buried in the Rippey Cemetery (Block 2, Lot 38, Grave 3). According to a paper that can be found in the Iowa Historical Department Library in Des Moines written by someone named Terrill, Romancy was the daughter of John and Anna Smootz Miller.

The children of Benjamin Tallman are as follows:

Sarah Jane m. David Edwin Silver

John died young

Miller Mathais m. Elizabeth Plomey Ault Winn

David died young

Caroline ?

Amy E. m. Nathaniel Amon Garnant

Eliza E. m. Adam Lieberkneckt

Nathaniel Harrison m. Narcisses Pollic

Griffen C. m. ? Postier

William L. m. ?

Romancy m. Albert Serman

Jacob died at 24

Grace died young

Around 1848, Benjamin, his brother John, and, perhaps their brother David, moved to Jones county, Iowa. The children through Eliza E. had been born in Ohio, but Nathaniel was born in Jones county in 1849. Sometime in the 1850s, Benjamin moved his family to the next county to the west--Linn county. He was involved with the United Brethren Church which founded a town and college at Western. Benjamin was the farm agent and resident agent of the college for many years. At one time he served on the Board of Regents. One of his jobs was to operate the college farm. The farm provided a work/study program for needy students as well as a means for the college to earn outside income.

When the church founded the town they hoped that the lots and nearby farms could be sold to its members thereby creating a strong religious community. They were also in a good position to be on a major north/south railway line. Such was not to be the case though. The railroad located to both the east and west of the town by a few miles and an influx of immigrants from Bohemia bought up much of the surrounding land. The college fell on hard times and eventually closed. Benjamin owned no land in Linn county until 1864, but he clearly lived there much earlier, so he probably resided on the college farm itself. He bought 80 acres adjacent to the college farm just to the north (E 1/2, SE 1/4, Sec. 28-82-7). A barn he built was still standing in 1987.

Benjamin died in 1881 and his wife, Romancy, moved to Rippey in Greene county, Iowa, to live with her daughter, Amy. Another daughter, Eliza, also lived around Rippey, and Romancy later lived with her. There is also some indication that her son, Miller, also lived in the area for a while. There seems to have been quite an exodus of Tallmans to Greene county. Several sons of Benjamin's brother, John, also moved there. Many of Benjamin's younger children moved to Minnesota.

Benjamin died October 26, 1881, in Linn county, Iowa. His tombstone, which is in the Western Cemetery in Linn county, gave his age at death as "69 Ys 5 Ms 1 Day." Date math yields the birth date. Virgil Berdette Tallman in his Tallman Genealogical Record, page 137, says his birth date is May 28, 1911. The difference is probably the result of transcription errors.

Article and drawing by Robert A. J. Thorpe of Cedar Rapids reprinted from The Greater Tallman Family Newsletter, December, 1987.

For more information on the Tallman family see The Tallman Page at Richard's Genealogy (http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~richard/tallman/tallman.htm) & Tallmans of Jones County

(http://iowajones.org/families/tallman.htm)

Source: Jones County Iowa Biographies, Iowa GenWeb (onine).

[http://iowajones.org/bio/bioT.htm#Tallman_Benjamin] -- copied 12/26/2008 cltj.

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Benjamin TALLMAN

Western Cemetery

Linn County, Iowa

Died Oct. 25, 1881

Tombstone photo posted on: IAGenWeb, IowaGravestones.org

Contributed On: 5/5/04

[http://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php/id_65463] -- found 02/19/2005 cltj.