Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1918-01-16
Elizabeth Tallman

i The funeral services of Mrs. Eliza
beth II. Tallman were held Saturday
/ at 100 d. m, from the residence OF
her son, Edwin +. Tallman, in Eureka.
Rev. Johnson of the Fairplains M. E.
church was the officiating clergyman,
and spoke feelingly and impressively
to the bereaved relatives, friends and
lneighbors gathered to pay last tri-
butte of respect to good and faith
full life. The services were brief with
no musical selections, owing TO the
fact that Mrs. Hattie Tallman, of Mer
Rouge. La, was critically i'll at the
home Of her late sister. There was a
wealth of flowers, gifts from various
organizations and from friends and
relatives in Charlotte, Belding, Green
vile and vicinity.
The bearers were the sons of the
deceased, her son-in-law, her grand
son. Leon S. Tallman, and nephew,
Byron f. Brown. Interment was in
the cemetery at Otisco, the resting
place Of her husband and others Of the
family.
Elizabeth H. Tallman was born
June 13, 1887, in the picturesque little
town of Petersburg, N. Y. Her moth
er died when she was a child OF elev-
en-, and she early assumed many OF
the duties of the household.
When she was nineteen she came TO
Michigan with an aunt and uncle, in
tending to remain year. The trains
ran only as far as Kalamazoo and
from there they drove through, set
ting on farm in Eureka. Here she
met and married John r. Tallman.
Mr.. Tallman lived only eleven years
after their marriage. Mrs. Tallman
l.
dren, the youngest babe.
Then ensued years of struggle and
hardship. 1t was owing to Mrs. Tall
mans sterling qualities, her thrift
and economy, that the family was
maintained and the children trained
in those habits which have led to their
after success in life. She was an ideal
mother, serene and patient in DISPOSE
ton. Her whole thought and purpose
was conferred in her home and chill
dren; nothing was ever undone or neg
lected. Pretension or sham had no
part in her makeup; she spoke and
lived simple truth and honesty. AL
though not a member Of any special
church she believed in Christianity.
Mrs. Tallman's life, although confin-
ed to a narrow sphere geographically,
was broad in its influence. She died
on the farm on which she began her
married life, though in the interN en-
ing time she lived one year in Or
leans, one in Alma, and fifteen Years
in Belding.
In December, a year ago, she was
taken with grip and heart trouble
During the summer she was able to
walk about the room with the aid OF
a cane, but grew weaker until in the
early autumn she again became con-
fined to her he'd. Most devotedly |
watched over and cared for by her son, |
Edwin. assisted by the others, yet she
daily faded away until on New Years |
afternoon, with sister, children and
grandchildren around her, her soul
took its peaceful flight to "The Far |
Country"
She leaves to morurn her loss, be-
sides many friends, her three sons,
VIM. A. and Edwin f. Tallman oil
Fairplains, B. NJ. Tallman of Green
vile; a daughter, Mrs. w. III. Wilson. |
of Otisco; her sister, Mrs. Hattie Tall |
man, half sister, Miss Olivia Slaw
son, now in the west; also a number of I
nieces and nephews.
A Hebrew poet in describing the !
ideal woman of their nation has fit /
tingly given the characteristics Of the /
one who has left US:
"She seeketh wool and flax and
worketh willingly with her hands"
"She looketh well to the ways of /
her household and eateth not the I
bread of idleness."
"Her children arise up and call her
blessed"