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REC: Harry Terrel's Lineage of Peter Tallman and Joan Briggs.
<ahref=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~allendon/...inB.html>Benjamin B. T allman Photos and Documents</a>
Around 1848 Benjamin moved to Jones County, Iowa from CanalWinchester,<a href=http://atallmen.homepage.com/hp/gear/photo/photoalb01.html?item=18.1>;(Photo)</a>
Franklin County, Ohio. Sometime in the 1850s Benjamin moved his familyto the next county t o the west, Linn County. He was involved withthe United Brethren Church which founded a tow n and college atWestern. Benjamin was the farm agent and resident agent for thecollege fo r many years. At one time he served on the Board ofRegents. When the church founded the to wn it was hoped that the lotsand nearby farms could be sold to the members thereby creatin g astrong religious community. They were also in a good position to beon a major north/sou th railway line. Such was not to be the casethough. The railway located to both the east a nd west of the town bya few miles and an influx of immigrants from Bohemia bought up much of the surrounding land. The college fell on hard times and eventuallyclosed. One of Benjam in's jobs was to operate the college farm. Thefarm provided a work/study program for need y students as well as ameans for the college to earn outside income. Benjamin owned no lan din Linn County until 1864 but he clearly lived there much earlier, sohe probably resided o n the college farm itself. He purchased 80acres adjacent to the college farm just to the no rth (East 1/2, SouthEast 1/4 Sec. 28-82-7). A barn that he built was still standing in1987 .

Benjamin died in 1881 and his wife Romancy moved to Rippey in GreeneCounty, Iowa, to live wi th her daughter Amy. Another daughter, Elizaalso lived around Rippey and Romancy later live d with her. There isalso some indication that her son Miller also lived in the area for aw hile. There seems to have been quite an exodus of Tallmans toGreene County. Several sons o f Benjamin's brother John also movedthere. Many of Benjamin's younger children moved to Min nesota.Benjamin is buried in Western Cemetery in Linn County, Iowa.

MARRIAGE: Fairfield County, Ohio Marriage Records Book 1. by S. S.Geohegan.
Performed by Peter Stepens Minister of the Gosple. 24 Dec 1833

ROBERT A. J. THORPE
3019 Mansfield Avenue SE,
Cedar Rapids, IA 52403-3042 (319) 362-0761

August 25, 1987

Mr Allen Donald Tallman
Emain Address "mama@uswest.net"

Dear Cousin Don,

Recently I have had the great good fortune to correspond with NancyTallman Walkowski. Coinci dentally, someone happened to send herinformation on some Tallmans that I have been lookin g for for sometime. Since I included my line of descent in my letter, she also gaveme som e other references and one was some materials you sent her. Sheindicated that you were "ver y knowledgeable on the descendants ofJohn Tallman, youngest child of Benjamin and Dinah Boon e Tallman.Well, I am a descendant of this very John Tallman and I presume thatyou are too . Below please find my descent from John. I am aware ofthe generations between him and Pete r Tallman, the immigrant.

John m, Elizabeth Harrison
Benjamin B m, Sarah Granville
& Romancy Miller
Miller Mathais m. Elizabeth Plomey Auut
Lenore Hetty m. Uriah Blake Thorpe
Raymond Miller m, Patricia Margaret Bellamy
Robert Archer John m, Karen Lu Spicer

I know Benjamin B Tallman (1820-1881) came to Iowa in the late 1840's.He stopped first in Jo nes County with his brother John but moved toLinn County, the next county over, a year or tw o later. He wasinstrumental in the formation and the farm operations of WesternCollege in t he village of Western in Linn County. I happen to liveonly a few miles from Western but it i s purely a coincidence. Wemoved to Cedar Rapids in 1960. Western College was a religious college organized by the United Brethren Church and was envisioned aspart of a utopian communit y. Practically the whole town came.fromOhio so I suspect there are many related families fro m around CanalWinchester.

I have been able to do quite a bit of research into the colateralfamilies of the Harrisons , Boones, Lincolns, etc which I assume youhave too since these families are quite well docum ented. If youhaven't had time to yet them, I will be happy to share what I have.

Please drop a line if you have a chance.

Your cousin,

/S/ Robert AJ Thorpe