Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1918-01-23
DEATH OF MRS. TAlLMAN
WHILE ON A VISIT

Mrs. II. Clay Tallman died at the
home of her nephew, K. f. Tallman,
at ten a. m, January 8, after brief
illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clay Tallman of
Washington, d. C. and Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Tallman of Mer Rouge, La,
her two sons and their wives, did not
arrive until after her death. On ac-
count of the storm the funeral ser
vices were not held until Monday.
Rev. H. B. Johnson of the Fair
plains M. <. church, officiated and
Mesdames Graham and Clarke of
Greenville sang. The remains were
laid at rest in Otisco cemetery.
Mrs. Harriet M. Tallman was born
in Pittstown, N. Y, June 8, 1910, her
father being Amos Slawson of that
place. When a mere child she was
left motherless, and she and the old
err sister, Elizabeth, who just passed
away, endeavored to be little house
keepers for their father until he re-
married a few years later. Thus her
girlhood was passed in the Empire
state, but when the news came of the
death of John Tallman, her sisters
husband, she came to Michigan as
company and comfort for her. Thus,
next to their own mother, she became
nearest and dearest to the Tallman
brothers of Eureka and their sister,
now Mrs. w. ii. Wilson.
After some years she married II.
Clay Tallman, brother of her sisters
husband. To this union two children,
Clay Tallman, commissioner of gen
eral land Office, Washington, ID. c.,
and Chas. r. Tallman of Mer Rouge,
Louisiana.
Mrs. Tallman's life has been spent
in a number of different states. In
Michigan she and her husband first
resided on the old Tallman homestead,
one-half mile north of Bedding. At
forwards they purchased the farm
east of Bedding which they later sold
to b. F. Hall. After trip east they
had a brief residence in Belding, but
shortly afterward, in 1904, Mr.. and
Mrs. Tallman with their son, Charles,
acquired interests in the Pecos Valley.
Thereafter, in 1912, the family be-
came interested in a cotton plantation
in Louisiana and removed to that
state, where III. G. Tallman died about
two years ago, the remains being
brought back to the old family bury
ing ground in Otisco.
Mrs. Tallman's health became SO
poor that her physician advised a
change of climate. She with her lit
tie granddaughter came up to Wash
ington to visit her son, and from there
to Michigan where since Thanksgiv-
ing time she was a faithful and ten
der watcher at the bedside of her
sister. The day of her sisters death
she was seemingly as well as ever, an
angel of comfort to the bereaved ones.
The following morning she was TAX
en- suddenly i'll and although at first
it was hoped to be nothing serious,
doctor and nurse could not stay the
onward march of disease, and one
week from the day of her sister
death She, too, went away to "The
Far Country"
Mrs. Tallman had one of those rare
sympathetic and lovable natures that
won her q circle of warm friends in
New Mexico and Louisiana, as well as
in the old home in Bedding and vicin-
ity. She was always ready to make
any personal sacrifice for her family
and loved ones, and her home was
ever q center of comfort and JOY to
the home circle and to every one who
came within it's infucu--.
Thus, the sisters, two of Gods no.
BILE women, at q ripe old age, each
having reared a family, now grown,
passed away, within a week, at the
old Tallman homestead in Eureka,
where they first came to this, then a
new country, a half century ago.