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Bessie Belle Hartman   b 1/31/1883 d 7/14/1975

                   Married 5/10/1914         Jacob Sloan Corriher   b 5/19/1868 d 10/8/1942

             Children              (1) Hubert Benjamin Corriher, Sr   b 6/26/1916   d 10/2/2001

                                                             Married 9/7/1940               Mamie Estele Morrison  b 11/11/1916   d ?/?/1998           

                                                                             Children              Betty Lucile Corriher  b 5/30/1941

                                                                                                             James Edward Corriher  b 10/4/1943

                                                                                                             Hubert Benjamin Corriher, Jr  b 1/13/1945   d ???

                                                                                                             Robert Lee Corriher  b 6/4/1946

                                                                                                             Richard Sloan Corriher  b 7/23/1947

                                                                                                             Willard Wayne Corriher  b 12/12/1949   d 12/13/1949

                                                                                                             Ralph Bernard Corriher  b 7/10/1953   d 3/?/2023

Married                               Syble ?

                                             (2) Margaret Louise Corriher   b 6/2/1918   d 8/6/2009

                                                             Married 5/2/1947                Christopher Columbus Crews   b 4/1/1920 d 5/3/1983  

                                                                             Children              Peggy Ann Crews  b 5/14/1948

                                                                                                             Jerry Wayne Crews  b 3/30/1952

Married 12/3/1989              Grady Curlee Shenk   b 8/14/1916 d 6/9/1996

                                             (3) Mary Elizabeth Corriher  b 9/2/1920   d 7/26/2003

                                                             Married                               Albert Bryant Templeton  b 2/1/1921   d 2/23/2002

                                                                             Children                Carolyn Marie Templeton  b 8/29/1949

                                                                                                               Roy Lee Templeton  b 1/6/1951

Bessie “Maw” Belle Hartman was born in Rowan County, NC in 1883 to Daniel C Hartman and Letitia Louise Earnhart. She was next to the last of ten children born to Daniel and Letitia. Bessie was not yet four years old when her mother died in 1886.

In 1888, her father married Mary Nancy Parks. In 1898, Bessie’s sister, Minnie “Minn” May Hartman married Joseph Johnson Jones. Sometime after this, they came to believe that Bessie’s stepmother did not like her and was mistreating her. So, Joe approached Daniel and offered to have Bessie come live with him and Minn. Daniel agreed, and Bessie went to live with the Jones family. She became close to the Jones family and her nieces and nephews, Cecil, Ronald, Ruby, May, and Katherine.

Bessie is shown in the 1900 US Census as living with her father and stepmother but is not listed in the 1910 census in neither the Hartman nor Jones families.

Joe Jones knew Jacob Sloan Corriher who was a widower with no children. He and Minn thought Sloan and Bessie would be a good match, so Joe introduced the two. Bessie and Sloan were married in 1914 in Rowan County. She was 31 years old, and Sloan was not quite 46. They had one son and two daughters. According to the US Census they lived in Salisbury on Harrison Street and later West Franklin Street. Even later they lived in the Granite Quarry area.

Sloan died in 1942 at the age of 74. He is buried in Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Salisbury, NC. After his death, in 1944, Bessie’s son, Hubert, built her the home at 418 Morlan Park Road. This was beside his home, and when Margaret and Chris bought the home from Bessie, Hubert built her one between his house and Margaret’s. Later, Jerry and Diane and their three oldest sons lived in the house from 1978 to 1980.

Bessie was a very kind person and rarely spoke ill of anyone. One time in the late 1960’s she told us about an elderly man, who lived down the road from her, had asked her to marry him. She said, “I don’t need to look after an old man.” Of course, there was no denying the twinkle in her light blue eyes as she was flattered about a man being interested in her. Bessie never remarried and lived alone for over thirty years after Sloan’s death. She raised chickens and lived in her small one-bedroom house. As she approached her nineties, she developed dementia. Margaret and Chris had her move in with them so they could care for her.

She was living with them when Margaret was babysitting Jerry and Diane’s son, Jeremy. One day after work, Diane went by to get Jeremy and he and Bessie were on the front porch. Jeremy was taking dirt from the yard and pouring it on Bessie’s head. Diane asked her why she didn’t stop him, and she replied, “Oh, he’s having fun.”

One evening Chris and Bessie were watching TV together when she abruptly stood up. Chris asked, “Maw, where are you going?” She said she was going home. He told her that she lived with him and Margaret now and that she was home. She sat down but stood up again and announced she was going home. So, Chris told her he would take her home. They got into his car, and he drove around the block and came right back to his house. This satisfied her. They went into the house. She was home.

Bessie died in 1975 at the age of 92. She is buried in Rowan Memorial Park in Rowan County.

It is of interest to note what happened to Bessie’s son Hubert and his wife Mamie. Hubert gained employment with Southern Railways and eventually worked in the repair shop in Spencer, NC. The work there centered on steam locomotives and in the 1950’s steam started giving way to diesel engines. So, the need for steam repair declined to the point that the repair shop, which was built in 1896, was closed in 1960. It is now the North Carolina Transportation Museum which houses the largest collection of rail relics in the Carolinas.

With the closing of the shop, many of the workers were given the opportunity to relocate to either Atlanta, GA or Chattanooga, TN. Hubert chose Chattanooga and moved his family there in 1960. He and Mamie bought a home in Rossville, GA, just south of Chattanooga, and lived there for a number of years. After retiring he and Mamie moved to an area near Bryant, Alabama.

Mamie developed ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) and died in 1998 at the age of 82. Hubert remarried and later died in 2001 at the age of 85 years old. Both were sent to the Tri-State Crematory located just north of LaFayette, GA for cremation. The area is known as tri-state because it is in the corner where Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama come together. So, Tri-State Crematory was used quite extensively by the funeral directors in the area.

The crematory was opened in the mid-1970’s by Tommy Marsh. By 1996 his health started deteriorating, and his son, Ray Brent Marsh, took over the operation.

In 2002, the US Environmental Protection Agency office in Atlanta, GA received a tip that things were not right at Tri-State. Upon investigation they found piles of decomposing human bodies in a storage shed, in vaults and scattered inside and outside the property. In total they found 339 uncremated bodies. Of those, 226 were identified. Hubert was one of those identified by the serial number located on his pacemaker. Family DNA was provided in an attempt to see if any of the bodies was Mamie, but there was no match, which indicates she was properly cremated. The funeral homes in the area provided for the bodies to be properly cremated at no further expense to the families.

Brent Marsh claimed the cremation oven was broken, but the oven was tested and found to be in working order. Concrete dust was sent to the families and presented as cremated remains.

He was arrested and Georgia charged him with 787 counts, including theft by deception, abusing a corpse, burial service-related fraud and giving false statements. He eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 years in prison and 75 years of probation in Georgia. Marsh was released from prison on June 29, 2016, after completing his sentence.

Daniel C Hartman  b 7/25/1840   d 10/18/1933

                   Married 8/24/1866         Letitia Louise Earnhart  b 3/12/1844   d 10/7/1886

             Children              (1) Mary Alice Hartman  b 1867   d 1867

                                             (2) Adam Alexander Hartman  b 6/27/1869   d 2/12/1939

                                             (3) John Hartman  b 12/27/1870   d 11/22/1948

                                             (4) Laura Catherine Hartman  b 4/3/1873   d 3/13/1966

                                             (5) Jenny Louise Hartman  b 1875   d 1875

                                             (6) William Henry Hartman  b 1/3/1877   d 1/31/1952

                                             (7) Minnie May Hartman  b 1/13/1880   d 6/12/1964

                                             (8) Bessie Belle Hartman  b 1/31/1883   d 7/14/1975

                                             (9) Charles Wesley Hartman  b 8/28/1885   d 6/23/1987

             Married 8/30/1888         Mary Nancy Parks  b 7/11/1865   d 11/18/1944

             Children              (1) Dora Sarah Lily Hartman  b 9/14/1893   d 3/21/1969

                                             (2) Docia Rebecca Hartman  b 10/5/1899   d 8/23/1967

                                             (3) Nancy Irene Hartman  b 4/20/1903   d 12/9/1988

                                             (4) Nora Hartman  b 6/7/1905   d 5/31/2009

Daniel C Hartman was born in 1840 in Rowan County, NC to Adam Hartman and Amelia Catherine Harkey. He grew up in the Mt. Ulla area of Rowan County.

After the Civil War started, Daniel enlisted in the artillery of the Confederate North Carolina army on March 19, 1862, and drove a supply wagon. He spent some time at Fort Fisher, NC and was also at the battle of Gettysburg, PA. At one point he served under Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. In the later months of the war, he was stationed south of Richmond, VA, and was part of the Confederacy surrender at Appomattox. Benjamin Lontz Corriher and John McCollum were also at Appomattox when the war, in effect, came to an end.

Here is an excerpt from the Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant Vol. 2 about the terms that would have a direct effect on Daniel Hartman, John McCollum, and Lontz Corriher, as well as all the Confederate soldiers:

“When I put my pen to the paper I did not know the first word that I should make use of in writing the terms. I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly, so that there could be no mistaking it. As I wrote on, the thought occurred to me that the officers had their own private horses and effects, which were important to them, but of no value to us; also that it would be an unnecessary humiliation to call upon them to deliver their side arms.

No conversation, not one word, passed between General Lee and myself, either about private property, side arms, or kindred subjects. He appeared to have no objections to the terms first proposed; or if he had a point to make against them he wished to wait until they were in writing to make it. When he read over that part of the terms about side arms, horses and private property of the officers, he remarked, with some feeling, I thought, that this would have a happy effect upon his army.

Then, after a little further conversation, General Lee remarked to me again that their army was organized a little differently from the army of the United States (still maintaining by implication that we were two countries); that in their army the cavalrymen and artillerists owned their own horses; and he asked if he was to understand that the men who so owned their horses were to be permitted to retain them. I told him that as the terms were written they would not; that only the officers were permitted to take their private property. He then, after reading over the terms a second time, remarked that that was clear.

I then said to him that I thought this would be about the last battle of the war—I sincerely hoped so; and I said further I took it that most of the men in the ranks were small farmers. The whole country had been so raided by the two armies that it was doubtful whether they would be able to put in a crop to carry themselves and their families through the next winter without the aid of the horses they were then riding. The United States did not want them and I would, therefore, instruct the officers I left behind to receive the paroles of his troops to let every man of the Confederate army who claimed to own a horse or mule take the animal to his home. Lee remarked again that this would have a happy effect…”

So, if Daniel, John, and Lontz were using their own horse and gun they were permitted to take them home. They were required to take an oath of allegiance to the United States in order to be paroled. On June 3, 1865, Daniel signed a document with the Office Probost Marshal. It read, “Do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Union of the States thereunder; and that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of Congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by Congress, or by the decision of the Supreme Court, and that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all proclamations of the President made during the existing rebellion having reference to slaves, so long and so far as not modified or declared void by decision of the Supreme Court. So help me God.” This was the standard declaration made by Daniel, John, and Lontz and all the Confederacy had to make to be readmitted into the Union.

After the war, Daniel returned to Rowan County and the Mt. Ulla area. In 1866 he married Letitia Louise Earnhart. Letitia was born in Rowan County to Charles Earnhart and Catherine Moyer. Together they had nine children.

Letitia died in the fall of 1886 at 42 years of age. She is buried in Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Salisbury, NC.

In 1888, Daniel married Mary Nancy Parks. Mary was born in 1865 in Fort Mill, South Carolina to Joseph Lee Parks and Rebecca Lunina Wilson. They had four children. Daniel was a millwright by trade and opened a grist mill. They lived in the Gold Hill, NC area and eventually owned a plantation near Granite Quarry which became known as the Hartman Plantation.

On Friday, June 14, 2002, the Salisbury Post published the article, “A Confederate Daughter” by Susan Shinn. This was a brief interview with Daniel and Nancy’s youngest daughter, Nora Hartman Linder. She describes how her father, Daniel, never talked to her about the war, but she felt he had with her older brothers. According to Nora, “He (Daniel) had blue eyes, and a moustache and beard. He was a good old man.” Daniel loved to whittle and had a front porch wall covered with sticks he had whittled. Nora didn’t like the way the wall looked and took them down. It wasn’t long before he put them back on the wall. She never tried to take them down again.

In the article, Nora says her father was a healer and people come to him to be treated for an ailment or something. He would lay his hands on them and he and Nancy both could heal a burn by “talking out fire.”

Daniel Hartman died in 1933 at 93 years old. At the time of his death, the Salisbury Post reported he was the oldest man in Rowan County and the oldest Confederate veteran. He is buried at Union Lutheran Church cemetery in Rowan County. Nancy Parks Hartman died in 1944 at the age of 79. She is buried in Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Salisbury, NC.

It is interesting to note the longevity of some of the Daniel’s family. Bessie Hartman Corriher lived to 92. Charles Wesley Hartman died at 101 years old. Nora Hartman Linder died at the age of 103, just a week shy of 104.

Adam Hartman  b 5/29/1819   d 11/5/1892

                   Married 10/16/1839       Amelia “Mealy” Catherine Harkey  b 12/22/1819   d 12/8/1863

             Children              (1) Wiley Hartman  b 1840   d 1850

                                             (2) Daniel C Hartman  b 7/5/1840   d 11/18/1933

                                             (3) John Henry Hartman  b 9/19/1841   d 3/25/1875

                                             (4) Jesse Hartman  b 3/19/1845   d 12/1/1863

                                             (5) Samuel Hartman  b 10/28/1846   d 9/28/1863

                                             (6) Mary Ellen Hartman  b 1849   d ??

             Married 10/25/1864       Polly Lyerly  b 3/19/1839   d 1/7/1895

Adam Hartman was born in 1819 in Rowan County to John Henry Hartman and Lydia “Liddy” Mesimer. He lived in the Mt. Ulla area of Rowan County.

He married Mealy Harkey in 1839. Amelia “Mealy” Catherine Harkey was born in 1819 in Cabarrus County, NC to Henry Harkey and Christena Beaver. She and Adam had six children.

Adam was a farmer and also lived in the southern part of Rowan County and outside of Granite Quarry.

Mealy Hartman died in 1863 at the age of 43. She is buried in the Union Lutheran Church cemetery in Rowan County.

Adam married Polly Lyerly in 1864. Polly was born in 1839 in Rowan County to Daniel Lyerly and Margaret Barber. She and Adam had no children.

Adam Hartman died in 1892 at 73 years of age. He is buried in the Union Lutheran Church cemetery in Rowan County. Polly died in 1895 at the age of 55. She is buried in Salem Lutheran Church cemetery in Salisbury, NC.

John Henry Hartman  b 1/19/1794   d 9/11/1879

                   Married 4/7/1817            Lydia “Liddy” Mesimer  b 1797   d 1880

             Children              (1) Adam Hartman  b 5/29/1819   d 11/5/1892

                                             (2) Eve Ann Hartman  b 1823   d ??

                                             (3) Sophia Hartman  b 9/13/1831   d 10/20/1861

                                             (4) Elizabeth Hartman  b 1832   d ??

                                             (5) John Hartman  b 1835   d 1866

                                             (6) Susan C Hartman  b 1837   d 1866

John Henry Hartman was born in 1794 in Rowan County, NC to Herman Hartman. They lived in the Mt. Ulla area of Rowan Ct.

In 1817 John Henry married Lydia “Liddy” Mesimer. Liddy was born in Rowan County in1797. They had six children together. Later they lived in the Providence Township which is the area around Granite Quarry.

John Henry died in 1879 at the age of 85. Liddy died in 1880 at about 83 years old. It is not known where they are buried.

Henry Hartman  b 10/24/1742   d 11/6/1784

                   Married 4/30/1767                         (Unknown)

             Children              (1) John Henry Hartman  b 1/19/1794   d 9/11/1879

Henry Hartman was born in Monocacy, Maryland in 1742 to Herman Hartman and Eve Marie Bischoff. Henry and his parents moved to Rowan County, NC sometime before 1767.

It is known that Henry was married in Rowan County in 1767 but it is a mystery as to who his bride was. The original marriage document is stored on microfilm. It is a handwritten paper with Henry listed as the groom, the date, the magistrate, and two witnesses. There is no bride named. The paper does appear to have writing bleeding through from the back which would indicate there is more on the back of the page. However, the back was not transferred to microfilm. It’s possible what is written there is illegible, and therefore, there was no need to record it. The two witnesses recorded are a Mr. McDonald and a Mr. Brown. It is possible the bride would be related to one of the witnesses, as this is common at ceremonies, but who the bride truly was remains a mystery. Henry and his wife had one son.

Monocacy was a village located in Frederick County, Maryland. The Great Wagon Road ran through this area and over to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Monocacy is considered the oldest settlement in Western Maryland and was founded in the 1720’s. German settlers came to the area in 1729. Today, Monocacy is part of Frederick, Maryland.

Just over ten years after being married, on May 22, 1777, Henry enlisted in the Continental Army to fight in the American Revolutionary War against England. He was a private in the German Battalion.

Henry Hartman died in 1784 in Rowan County at 42 years of age. His burial location is unknown.

Herman Hartman  b 1713   d 7/?/1762

                   Married 1730                   Eve Marie Bischoff  b 1712   d 1772

             Children              (1) Joseph Hartman  b 1732   d 1782

                                             (2) George Hartman  b 1735   d 1772

                                             (3) Adam Hartman  b 1736   d 1806

                                             (4) John Henry Hartman  b 11/11/1738   d 1809

                                             (5) Elizabeth Hartman  b 1740   d 1810

                                             (6) Henry Hartman  b 10/24/1742   d 11/6/1784

                                             (7) Mary Hartman  b 1748   d 1832

Herman Hartman was born in 1713 most likely in Westfalen, Germany, to Johann Leonhard Hartmann (1688-1753) and Maria Kalthof (1687-1754).

Westphalia (Westfalen) has been part of the German state since the early Middle Ages. Over the centuries it has been a part of all the incarnations of the German State, from the Holy Roman Empire to the German Empire, National Socialist Germany, and part of Prussia. It is located between the Rhine and Weser rivers. The language spoken there is known as West Low German or Low Saxon. This is the German spoken in parts of the Netherlands, northwestern Germany, and southern Denmark.

Herman married Eve Marie Bischoff in 1730 in his native Germany. After having three children they packed up and moved to Colonial America arriving in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1737. By 1742 they were living in Monocacy, Maryland and eventually had a total of seven children. It appears the family moved to Rowan County, North Carolina in the 1750’s.

Herman died in Rowan County in 1762 at about the age of 49. Eve died in Rowan County in 1772 at about the age of 60. Their burial location is unknown.

The German name “Hartman” means “bold” or “brave.” The surname is first found in Hanover, Germany and dates back at least to 1369. Different spellings are Hartman, Hartmann, Harttmann, Haartmann, Hertlein, and many more.

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