William Tallman Family Bible:
This bible furnished information that enabled Miss Mary Josephine Roe of Gilbert, O. [Ohio], to compile an incomplete genealogy of the Tallman family in 1883-95. Miss Roe was a descendant of Samuel Tallman (5th child of Benj. T. and his wife Dinah (Boone) Tallman) and his wife Sarah (Wells) Tallman. She was interested also in the Wells family and published a small book giving the history of that family. Miss Roe traveled extensively (she had plenty of money) in her work following up the clues furnished by this Bible. She uncovered information that lead to the solving of mysteries connected with the ancestry of President Abraham Lincoln, and Benjamin Boone, uncle to Daniel Boone. (end p 27) Miss Roe is quoted as (an) authority by the authors, Hazel Atterbury Spraker in her "The Boone Family", by William Reed in his "The Descendants of Thomas Durfee of Portsmouth RI", by Lea & Hutchinson in his "The Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln" and by Harrison in his "Settlers by the Long Grey Trail".
[The Tallman Genealogical Record, by Virgil Burdette Tallman (1885-1969) of Canal Winchester, Ohio, c. 1908, pp. 27-28; from the typed transcript: vtallman.pdf (p. 17).]
