I still have not figured out how to do the pictures right. I had another picture but one came up wrong. Anyway there are alot of signs as shown above and I have seen a couple of Amish carts going down the road. Yesterday I told you that Eddie Halterman (Scotts Dad) was on a trip to Iowa and got back at 8:00 Sunday night so I had all day yesterday so I thought I would drive north to Amanda, Ohio because John Sale Bryan lived there over 100 yrs ago and I noticed that there was someone named Bryan there. I called them but the guys wife said they were not related and didn''t act like she was interested. The Bryan family is documented well so I have decided I did not need to look into this any more and concentrate on the Haltermans.

I made another trip to Beaver, Ohio which is only 15 miles from where I am staying to a Mount Ridge Cemetary where alot of the earlier Haltermans are buried. I found quite a few but some of the tombstones are so old they are impossible to read or they are broken or gone. I talked to Eddie last night and he said over 20 yrs ago when he was there Daniel's marker was in pieces but he was able to get an impression.

I then went into Beaver and noticed 3 old guys sitting on a bench on one corner under a tree so I went around the block talked to them telling them who I was and was looking for Halterman's and one guy pointed to a house accross the street and said I need to go over there and talk to Shirley Halterman. Her last name is not Halterman now because she is married but we spent about an hour talking and she showed me pictures and figured out how we are related. My great great grandfather Henry J Halterman, who came from this area was a brother of Eli Halterman who was her great great grandfather. Eli was in the Civil War and was wounded badly and was unfit for service for awhile but did go back before it ended and was honorably discharged. Shirley was not aware of Scott Halterman who lives in Waverly or Eddie. I think Eddies people moved to another part of Ohio and I guess I will find out how we are related to him and what his people did.

I was going to load a picture of Shirley here with a picture of some of the graves but for some reason they were put at the top of this post. The picture of the graves show that some have trees growing through them and I found more than this one like this or worse. A couple graves you can hardly see a marker even with ground level.

I am going to meet with Eddie at 1:00 today and he is about 2 hrs from here. Besides figuring out how we are related I am hoping he knows alot more history of the family. Shirley did not know that the Haltermans were Menonites so just because you live here doesn't mean you know all about the Haltermans. Some of the questions I have for him is if he knows if there are still any Haltermans that live in Pa. that are still Menonites or if he knows of other Haltermans in Pa. or has he been to Pa to look into this. There are some Haltermans in East Strausburg Pa because I have found alot of car dealerships that are Halterman dealerships.

While talking to the three old guys on the corner they told me that the Amish are buying up alot of the farms around here. They own alot of land in Pa and they sold the mineral rights to some of it and they got alot of money for it and must be there are more Amish so they decided they need to expand so they are buying farms around here and moving families in. They think that Beave will be a tourist attraction some day because of it. One of the guys was the secretary for the Beaver Valley historical society and they got me to join it, so for $20 I get a newsletter for a year.