Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1922-02-03
HARTMAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
OF TAZEWELL, VIRGINIA.

Desires to secure mt once, Bib,,
records, wills, papers, and ali other
reliable data, or well founded tradi-
Ion, that will make more complete
the gcnealogy of the Hartman family
II Southwest Virginia, from the can
y pioneer days down to the present
time.
During the past year valuable
iata has been obtained, but unless
he liarmans and other related FAM
Hes contribute such information ms
III their possession, this work will
not be as complete as it should be. 1t
VIII be greatly appreciated if all who
IRE interested in this work will fun.
'sh names of descendants of the liar
Z nan and related families, together
win dates of birth, marriages, deaths.
etc, and residences of the parties
lamcd, as far MS possible
We give the following outline that
II NAV he seen what we are trvin,.
10 do and the cooperation we arc
asking:
Heinrich Hartman. the original pro-
scnitor of all the lIarmans we know
81 IN this section, was IL Prussian.
porn about 1890, emigratcd to the
valley OF Virginia in about 1870. lie.
mad SIN sons, namely, Adam. Valcn.
me, Henry, Jacob, Daniel and Ma
has, and one daughter, Christina.
who married Jeremiah Pate. Sr ,nJ
lived on Little River, in Montgomery
County, Virginia.
Daniei liarman, Sr., another broth
or, whose will was probated january
20, 1920. i'll Tazewell County Va.
mentions his children as follows: Mn
thlas, William, Daniel, Henry, Adam
Buse, Phnby Davis, Christina. Re,
becea Wright, Nancy Milam, LAVISH,
ana son-inlaw named Adam Ha,
man. Christina married Henry Har-
man, Jr., oldest son of Henry liar
man, Sr. Christina Hartman was the
grnnd-mother of the late David Hair
old Peery and John ID. Peery.
Capt. Henry Hartman, Sr., another
brother, whose will was also probat-
cd IN Iazewell County, Va. in 1899.
married Nancy Wilburn, of Winston
Sam, N. c., Capt. Henry Hartman.
Sr. was named by the Indians "Sky,
gusty," and was 101 years old at tn.
time of his death. He was buried
probably mt Hollybrook in Rland
County, Va. The following is n list OF
ms children and sons in law mention
ed in his will: Henry, Jr.. at whose
mouse the first court for Tazewell
county was held in the year 1900.
Daniel, who was killed by the In
dams near TaZcwcll Court House in
the year 1871, leaving two children
whose names we have not been oblr
TO learn; Adam, George, Matthias.
Hezekiah, Elias, Rhoda and Louisn
khoda married William Neel and
Louisa married James Davis. Infor-
nation as to the descendants of
hhoda and Louisa are especially re-
quested. In this connection we state
that Betsy Hartman, who is a dauph-
Ter OF George, married Ephraim Dun
par, and after his death she married
Lewis Neel and resided on Kimbcl
ing Creek, just north of the gan in
ne mountain in Bland County in the
neighborhood of where Gordon NpcJ
and Col. John X. Compton subse-
quently lived, both of whom in some
way were connec ted with the Har-
mans. SO far, we have no informa-
ton as to the Ncel and Dunbar de-
Scendants.
Adam Hartman, son of Henry. Sr
lived in Wythe County, now Bland
His children are named in his will
probated in Wythe county copy OF
which we have obtained.
George and Matthias were the two
sons who were with their father Her,
ry, ST., in the Indian fight in 1883
on Harman's Branch of Tug River.
q short distance from the town of
WEIGH. George lived and died in
Bland Co. and Matthias lived in Smyth
County, Virginia, in Rich Valley and
is buried on the farm of his grand
son the late Hon. Kiah IIarman.
HeD,kiah Hartman was resident
OF Tazewell County. Perhaps the
greater number Of Harmans and re-
ated families in Tazewell County are
mis- descendants.