Unexpected find

I met with the Jackson county historian yesterday, Bob Ervin at the library and he knew where all the articles on the Halterman's were but most was what I knew except for a Eli Halterman that was in the Civil War and was wounded badly and at the battle of Keneasaw Mountain, June 27, 1864 and was unfit for duty until almost the end of the war. I did find his grave at Beaver Union Cemetery in Beaver Pike Co., Ohio. Very confusing names of towns here, there is a Beaver Jackson Co., Ohio, a Beaver Pike Co., Ohio and a Beaver, Ohio and a road called Beaver Pike Ohio.

I went to Waverly, Ohio, which is the County seat for Pike County and went to the county library and looked in their research library in the basement where there was a nice lady that tried to help me find some stuff and they did have a file on the Halterman's but not much I did not know or could get on the internet. I did look at her phone books and their was only one Halterman in the phone book, "Buffy K. Halterman". The image that came to mind was some teenager or someone that might not want to talk to me. I went to eat a late lunch at the Bob Evans and when I was checking out I thought I would ask the young girl if she knew of any Haltermans and she said sure Tyler was her age and his mother was Buffy but she did not know what the fathers name was. So I asked the obvious, if she was divorced and she said no so I worked up the courage to call her. When I called her and explained she gave the phone to her husband Scott Halterman and he had me come over. He was a great guy probably about 40 and he heard of all the names on my chart and we were from the same Haltermans. The best thing was his father who is 76 has turned into a geneology nut since retiring and has a large amount of stuff on the Haltermans. He is returning from a trip to Iowa Sunday night so I will stay here at least one more day and hopfully see him on Monday.

Scott did tell me about where some of the Haltermans lived and about a road that used to be Halterman road. He also said 5 yrs ago there were alot of Haltermans around but most have died off. Scott has two sons so the name will continue on here but he said that the name here is also fading away.

He also did tell be about the skeleton in the Halterman closet. In 1927 a Leo Halterman was executed in the electric chair for killing his step brother, Charles Halterman, but I must also mention that there were also Haltermans that were doctors and other notable positions. I wished I would have taken a picture of Scott and his family but I will probably see him again. His father lives in Washington Court House, Ohio(another funny name) which is probably two hours away from where I am at in Jackson.

I plan on going up north to Ashland county to see if I can find anything on the Bryan's today.

I will post the graves of Eli Halterman and his family. I found Halterman's in three sections of this grave yard and they are in other grave yards.