Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Talman, H. Clay March 1916
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Belding Banner - Wed. March 8, 1916

FORMER BELDING RESIDENT SUCCUMBS- BURIAL WAS HERE
REMAINS OF H. CLAY TALLMAN SENT HERE FOR INTERMENT; WAS WELL-KNOWN

The remains of H. Clay Tallman arrived in this city Saturday, March 4. His son, 
Chas R. Tallman, had only a month before taken his wife to New Mexico for 
burial, and now brought his father to Michigan for interment with the other 
relatives in the Otisco cemetery.

Mr. Tallman was in bed but three days, lung trouble and heart failure had been 
causing a growing feebleness for some time, so his death was not wholly 
unexpected.

He leaves to mourn his loss, his wife, his two sons, Clay Tallman, U.S. Land 
Commissioner of Washington, D.C., and Charles, who is proprietor of a large 
plantation near Mer Rouge, Louisiana; also a brother, James Tallman of Kansas 
City, Mo., a sister, Mrs. Helen Barnes of Greenville, and a number ofnieces and 
nephews.

The funeral was held at the residence of his nephew, B. F. Tallman on Sunday at 
1:30 p.m. Rev. A. J. Blair of the Congregational church, conducted the 
beautiful and simple services. Miss Marie Reed and Clayton Knapp sang, “Oh, 
Beautiful Isle of Somewhere,” and “Abide with Me”. The bearers were nephews of 
the deceased: Wm. A., Buel M., and E. F. Tallman, of near Greenville, J. H. 
Brown of Charlotte and Preston Wright and Byron F. Brown of Belding. 

Those in attendance from a distance were, besides Charles Tallman, were: Clay 
Tallman of Washington, D. C., and J. H. Brow of Charlotte.

Though only near friends and relatives were present the house was filled. Mr. 
Tallman was a man who knew no class distinction, but was loved by all. An 
evidence of this was shown in the fact that among the many floral tributes were 
bunches of violets gathered and sent by the colored residents on the plantation 
in Louisiana. 

H. Clay Tallman was born in 1840 in Pittstown, N. Y. His family removed to 
Michigan when he was four years old, his father taking up from the government 
the farm north of Belding, where James Gore now resides, together with other 
lands adjacent. After the death of his parents, Mr. Tallman sold this farm and 
purchased the one which he afterwards sold to B. F. Hall. When the Orleans farm 
was disposed of he and his wife spent a short time in New York and then settled 
in Belding, where he purchased the house built by F. L. Spencer on the north 
side. 

Then came the boom in New Mexican lands, which attracted a number of Ionia 
county people among them was Mr. Tallman. His farm there was off of the most 
_____attract___ and one of the fully developed in Pecos Valley, that garden 
spot of New Mexico 

But again the spirit of wanderlust overtook him and his son Charles and they 
exchanged their property for the plantation in the south. There his last days 
were spent in performing some light duties and in reading of which he was very 
fond. His favorite paper was, “The Christian Herald” and the weekly sermons by 
Dewitt Talmadge and recently by other divines were always read aloud. He was 
brought up I the simple Quaker faith and this manner of worship was always 
maintained in the family. Honest and honorable in all his dealings, kind and 
charitable to all men. He goes to his last rest like one “Who wraps the drapery 
of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams.






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Otisco Cemetery - #236

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