U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hartman Family --------------------------------------------------------------------- A History of Preston County West Virginia Biographical Department, Supplied by J. R. Cole Kingwood, W. Va., The Journal Publishing Company, 1914 by H. S. Whetsell Pages 673-674, THE HARTMAN FAMILY. Michael Hartman came from Shenandoah county about 1805, and settled on the Isaiah W. Hartman place near Lenox. John, one son, built a saw mill on Lick Run. Michael wagoned on the National Road, a number of years and was once absent a year with a large load of merchandise, which he took to Tennessee before he returned. He married Margaret Miller. Henry, their eldest son, died about 1875, about seventy-five years of age. He wagoned also. Henry's first wife was Lovila Sypolt. She was the daughter of George Sypolt, who lived on Beech Run. Their children were Sarah Jane, now Mrs. Elijah Messenger of Terra Alta; Mrs. Henry Beatty, of the Whetsell neighborhood; George Washington, born at Crab Orchard, September 1, 1842, a veteran of the late war, serving in Company F, of the Sixth Virginia Infantry, from August, 1861, to the 12th of June, 1865. In 1867, he married Miss Susan Harriet Bonafield, daughter of Thornton and Sarah Bonafield, a farmer near Tunnelton, and moved there on the old Bonafield homestead, which Mr. Hartman bought in 1869. In 1905, they moved to Terra Alta. Their children are Edward Thornton, who married Nira Watson of Kingwood. They live in Boston. (2) Arnold Wesley, who married Ida Hanaway, and lives on the home farm. (3) Mabel, who married Bert Gibson a lumberman of Mason- town. (4) Lee Burt, a merchant of Tunnelton; (5) Alice Virginia, who married Bruce Falkenstein; (6) Henry Foster, candidate for sheriff; (7) and Lessie, the youngest child, now at home. Henry Foster Hartman, Sheriff of Preston County, was born December 25, 1880. His life until eighteen years of age was spent on a farm in the Kingwood District, and his education obtained in the Bonafield school near Tunnelton. In 1898, he became a member of the mercantile firm of George Hartman & Son, of Lenox, but two years afterwards he went to Terra Alta, where he owned and operated a store. In 1905, he closed out and established the Terra Alta Candy Company and did a profitable wholesale and retail trade in the ice cream and candy business for four years. It was his honesty and agreeable manners in his relationship to the people of Preston County that has made a possibility of him for the office of Sheriff. April 23, 1902, Mr. Hartman was married to Miss Belle Kelly. She is the daughter of W. S. and Sarah (Feathers) Kelly of Lenox, and was born December 19, 1882. She is a descendant of John Kelly of Revolutionary fame. Three children were born of this marriage. Ruby Beatrice, born November 25, 1903; Donald, the second child, and then Harold Spencer. Mr. and Mrs. Hartman are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and are well and favorably known in Terra Alta, and throughout Preston County. --------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Preston County, WV #13844 FULL-NAME: Henry Foster Hartman BIRTH-DATE: December 25, 1880 BIRTH-PLACE: Camp Ground, W.Va. DEATH-DATE: November 11, 1946 DEATH-PLACE: near Terra Alta, Portland District, Preston County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Married (Minerva B. Hartman, age 63-yrs) OCCUPATION: Justice of Peace FATHER: George W. Hartman (born in Preston Co., W.Va.) MOTHER: Susan Bonafield (born in Preston Co., W.Va.) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Coronary Thrombosis / Arteriosclerosis INFORMANT: Minerva B. Hartman (of Kingwood, W.Va.) BURIAL: Kingwood Cemetery, Kingwood, W.Va. --------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Preston County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/preston/bios.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------