(by Ron Bauerle)
My great-great-great grandparents, George and Margaret (Peggy) (Conrad) Aultman
Welcome to my ALTMAN/AULTMAN family page. I am descended from Hans Jacob
Altman (1700-1772) and Anna Maria
Eisenmann (1701-1775) of Germany who came
to America in 1749 on the ship
"Phoenix".
They settled in
Northampton Co, PA;
my branches of the family ended up in
Westmoreland Co, PA,
Tuscarawas and
Holmes Co, OH,
married into the Beck family, moved to
Clinton Co, MI, and married
into the Cressman and
Bauerle families.
If you have any problems accessing anything, or any additions/corrections,
let me know at
rdbauerle@juno.com. Happy hunting!
Contents of this page:
- A list of my Aultman ancestors and their spouses. A couple of mysteries involve the spouses of g6-grandfather William Altman (various sources have her name as Scholl/Stahl, but there's no other info), and g5-grandfather John Altman (a Stark Co, OH history says she was a Pershing, but there are no known females in the Pershing family that match her date information :^( Note that g4-grandfather George Aultman changed the spelling from Altman to Aultman, but probably nobody knows why...
- Famous relatives include Amelia Earhart and General John (Black Jack) Pershing; I'm the former's sixth cousin, three times removed, and the latter's fourth cousin, three times removed, respectively. Note that we are not related to director Robert Altman.
- Articles on the Aultman family and mill in Holmes County, OH;
I've condensed them into a partial timeline.
- An article by George's son A.A. Aultman (my g3-uncle) from the 2/14/1924 "Holmes County Farmer".
- An excerpt from "The Silent Streams" by Harry Logsdon, 1950?
- Excerpt from "History of Villages - People - Places in Eastern Holmes County" by Clarence Troyer, 1975. Most of the second part appeared in a 7/21/74 article by him, presumably from the "Daily Record", which also had this picture of the Troyer (formerly Aultman then Beck) Mill, which was torn down around 1915.
- Another article by Clarence Troyer, from the 12/8/1977 "Daily Record"; it mostly duplicates the first part of the above 1975 excerpt, but there are a few new tidbits.
- An article by Eileen Aultman Steele from "Holmes Co, OH to 1985". The part about William landing in Virginia in 1764 isn't quite right, since he presumably came over in 1749, and probably landed in Philadelphia. Likewise the part about his grandson Isaac's wife Nancy Wallick's being a "Scottish lady" probably isn't correct - the evidence is that the Wallicks were also German.
- This 1999 page has a nice article on the mill, but when I swung by in 2001, it was gone :^( I don't know whether it was demolished, or finally fell down - I asked on the Holmes Co, OH mailing list, but got no replies :^(
- Gravestone pictures:
- My g5-grandparents, John & Elizabeth (?) Altman, Strasburg, OH
- My g4-grandfather, Isaac Altman, Porter Cem, Lakeville, IN. His wife was Nancy Wallick.
- My g3-grandparents, George & Margaret (Conrad) Aultman, Clark, OH. His obituary is here.
- My g2-grandparents, John & Mary Jane (Aultman) Beck,
Eureka Cem, Eureka, MI.
Mary Jane was very pretty in her younger days.
- Subscribe to the Rootsweb Altman and/or Aultman mailing lists. If those links don't work for you, send e-mail to aultman-l-request@rootsweb.com and/or altman-l-request@rootsweb.com and type "subscribe" only in the subject and body of your message. Note that the Altman list has been more active than the Aultman list.
- To just search the Rootsweb Altman/Aultman mailing lists, go here and/or here. Suggest you search for specific locations or related surnames...
- Other Altman/Aultman links:
- John Jacob Altman's and Anna Marie Eisenmann's Ancestral File, but a quick glance shows it got the wrong John Altman as the son of John Jacob's son William :^(
- John Jacob Altman's and Anna Marie Eisenmann's World Connect Files, also the ones using Aultman.
- A large (147k) list of Aultman/Altman descendants
- Jim Sherlock's page. He is the author of the 1993 "The Pioneering Altmans", which is unfortunately out of print. He has some misc. Aultman pictures here and also wrote an interesting description of life during the Depression.
- The Surnameweb Altman and Aultman pages.
- The Genforum Altman and Aultman pages.
Back to my genealogy home page
Page History:
06/16/02 Begun and uploaded (with no other files) to aultman.htm
10/14/02 Completed, but not re-uploaded.
10/21/02 Added Jim Sherlock's Depression story and uploaded everything.
Copyright © 2002 by Ronald D. Bauerle. The material published on this site may not be reproduced for commercial purposes. Genealogical researchers are free to use this material for reference and research purposes. All other rights reserved.
