The Waltman Family 
of Northampton County

 
Jacob Franklin Waltman (1835-1923)

Jacob Franklin Waltman, 1835-1923, in the 1870s in Easton	Jacob Franklin Waltman, about 60-65, around 1900, with one of his grandsons, possibly Burton or Herbert.	FOUR GENERATIONS: Jacob Franklin Waltman, center, in 1919 in Colorado, with his son Marcus Hallbach Waltman at right, holding his grandson Frank R. Waltman, and, at left, Burton Brassington Waltman, son of Marcus

Annie Moser Waltman, wife of Jacob Franklin, with sons Marcus and William Franklin, in Easton  in  1866.  William died shortly afterward.	Marcus Hallbach Waltman, about 25, in Denver, early 1890s	Maria Brassington Waltman, wife of Marcus, in Denver	Maria Brassington Waltman, in Denver in the 1890s

        Knowing he would be out of work and having always desired to "go West," Frank decided to move to Denver.  He and his son Marcus left Easton in 1889.  According to a 1927 interview of Marcus in the Rocky Mountain News, Frank traveled to Colorado first and then was joined by Marcus.  Two years later, Marcus said, he felt safely enough established to send for his family.  Frank's wife, Annie, and Marcus' wife, Maria (pronounced Mariah), and Maria's two children, Harvey and Burton, moved to join them late in 1890.  But on the way to Denver, on December 4, 1890, Harvey, three years old, died in Chicago, and they returned to Easton to bury him in Hay's Cemetery. 

At left, Jacob Franklin Waltman with wife Annie, right, and Goldie Waltman, who is holding Jacob Franklin's great-granddaughter, Dorothy Waltman (Ware), in 1911.  The other two pictures, taken in the 1920s, show Jacob Franklin Waltman in the D. & R. G. Hospital in Salida.

        About February 1891, they resumed the trip to Denver.  Jacob Franklin's third child, Maggie, remained in Easton to finish the school year and moved to Denver in the summer of 1891. Frank worked as a carpenter for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, building coach cars.  

        Jacob Franklin Waltman died in Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado, on September 21, 1923, at the age of 88.  He had had both legs amputated as a result of diabetic gangrene and had been confined to a hospital for ten years.  One family member understood that his problem stemmed from a train accident.   Much of this time he was in the D. & R. G. Hospital in Salida. The hospital was later known as the "Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access medical center, and it was beginning a major expansion in early 2007.  Frank's wife, Annie, had died earlier, on July 27, 1919, in Salida, at the age of 77.  The newspaper said she died of "dropsy." Both Annie and Frank were buried at Salida.  

        A long line of Waltmans can be traced to Frank and Annie.  See their family genealogical chart. Their children were these:

A. William Franklin (Frank) Waltman was born in Easton on January 19, 1861, and died in Easton of cholera about 1866.  One family member said he was buried in Hay's Cemetery.

B. Marcus Hallbach Waltman was born in Easton on July 24, 1865.  He was married on August 1, 1886, in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, to Maria Edytha Brassington, of Glendon.  She had been born in Harrisburg on May 8, 1863, and she died in Denver on February 28, 1930.  Marcus and his family moved from Easton to Denver with his parents in 1890 and 1891.  Marcus and his father both worked as carpenters.  He told the Rocky Mountain News in 1927 that he had worked as a carpenter's apprentice with his grandfather, Joseph Waltman, until Joseph became too feeble to continue.  Marcus lived, mostly alone, for 14 years after Maria died.  He died in Denver on August 26, 1944, just after his 79th birthday. Marcus and Maria were both buried in Fairmount Cemetery in Denver.

        Marcus and Maria had five children.  One died young, and the others moved west, away from Colorado.  These were their children:

(1) Harvey Wicke (Harry) Waltman, was born on April 10, 1887, in Easton and died in Chicago on December 4, 1890, at the age of three.  At the time of his death, his family was en route from Easton to Denver. He was buried in Hay's Cemetery in Easton.

(2) Burton Brassington Waltman was born in Easton on January 8, 1889.  He married Goldie Ruanne Thayer, in Denver.  Her family lived in Oklahoma, but she went to Denver to stay with her brother, Warren Lionel Thayer, and there she met Burton.  Goldie had been born on March 23, 1886, in Athens, Tennessee. Goldie and Burton moved to Los Angeles in the late 1940s, and he opened a pattern shop near Long Beach. Later, they moved to Sunnymead, in Riverside County.  Burton worked for Kaiser Steel in Fontana, a large operation that produced steel plating for ships during World War II, and Goldie opened a roadside pottery stand. He died in Fontana, San Bernardino County, California, on July 11, 1958, at the age of 69. 

        After Burton died, Goldie went to live with her son Burt.  She died on January 17, 1960, in Hanover, New Mexico. Both Burton and Goldie were buried in Greenacres Cemetery in Bloomington, California. Burton and Goldie had four children: 

Burton Brassington Waltman, 1889-1958, in 1910, and his wife, Goldie Thayer Waltman, in 1909		Dorothy Waltman Ware, 1911-1994, about 1975	Dorothy Ware, about 1983

(a) Dorothy Edna Waltman was born in Denver on January 15, 1911.  She graduated from South High School in Denver in 1927, and on January 8, 1930, according to her DAR application, she married William (Bill) Clossen Ware. He had been born in Salineville, Ohio, on July 11, 1909, and moved to Denver about 1914-15.  

Bill Ware worked for Denver Fire Clay as a refractories salesman, and in 1930 the family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, when he became assistant manager of the company's branch there. The family moved back to Denver in 1961 and lived in Lakewood until 1967. William was a renowned expert on industrial kilns and was hired by W. P. Keith in Pico Rivera, California, to build a fledgling company.  He sold, built and installed kilns all over the world until he retired in 1984. Bill was active in the Masons and the Shrine and a lifelong member of the National Rifle Association.  He was an expert marksman and collected antique pistols and rifles.  He belonged to a black-powder re-enactment group in Southern California that provided assistance and extras to the movie industry in films such as "The Last of the Mohicans."After his retirement, Dorothy and William Ware lived in Whittier, California, until their deaths.  She died there on December 21, 1994.  He died in Whittier on July 29, 2000.  

Dorothy Waltman Ware was a genealogist who studied the Waltman family and an active member of the DAR.  From the time of her family's return to Colorado from Salt Lake City in 1962 until her death in 1994, she traveled extensively, doing research on the Waltman family and distributing copies of her research to family members.  Dorothy and William Ware had three children:

(i) Dorothy Joanne Ware, known as Joanne, was born December 1, 1930, in Salt Lake City.  She married Richard J. Romney (1927-2005) and had two children. She raised show-quality daschhunds.  In early 2007, she was living in Etna, California.

(iii) Jeannette Katherine Ware was born in Salt Lake City on June 19, 1938.  She was a graduate of the  University of Utah, with a degree in pharmacy, and she spent 44 years working in retail pharmacy, retiring in 2002.  She was active in Scouting and Masonic organizations, as troop leader and harem dancer.  On June 10, 1961, in Salt Lake City, she married Dale Martin Ehrlich, who had been born in Chicago on January 28, 1934.  He was a graduate of Indiana University and a marketing management specialist who worked in banking and started his own marketing company.  Dale died in Contra Costa, California, on October 16, 1990.  In 2007, Jeannette Ware Ehrlich lived in Bend, Oregon, and was continuing the genealogical work begun by her mother, Dorothy Waltman Ware.  She provided most of the photographs in this section on Jacob Franklin Waltman.

Jeannette and Dale Ehrlich had two children: 

-- Virginia (Ginny) Lynn Ehrlich was born on April 20, 1969, in Alameda, California. She worked for state boards of education in Boston and Salem, Oregon, and in 2007 she was completing her PhD dissertation in education.  She married Anthony Lane Cooper, an architect in Portland, Oregon.  

-- Steven William Ehrlich was born on September 6, 1975, in Alameda.  He earned a master's degree in computer science and in 2007 worked as a hardware engineer in Bend, Oregon.  His partner, Carol Ziogas, owned a business, Kimono-Momo, specializing in hand-made silk fashions.  

Jeannette Ware Ehrlich in 1987, and her husband, Dale Ehrlich, in 1989		Bill Ware, 90, Jeannette's father, in 1999

(b) Frank Robert Waltman, second child of Burton and Goldie Thayer, was born on January 14, 1914, in Denver.  He served in the Navy during World War II, in Long Beach, California.  He moved to Fontana, California, in the late 1940s to work for Kaiser Steel as head of the payroll department.  His father also had worked there.  Later, Frank was a hospital administrator in Upland, California. Frank married Charlotte Leo (1914-1994), who had been born in Moscow, Idaho, and they had four children: Glenn, Gene, Ralph and Karen Waltman.  Frank died on December 26, 1999, in St. George, Utah.  Frank's son Ralph Waltman assisted Harry Cameron with research on the family.

(d) Fred Donald (Don) Waltman was born on March 10, 1921, in Denver.  he served in World War II and was also a mining engineer.  He was working in New Mexico in 1959.  He married Florence O'Malley of Boston in 1947, and they had three children, Donna, Thomas and David Waltman, all living in the Las Vegas area in early 2007.  Don died on April 11, 1985, in Las Vegas.

Burton's four children at the time of his funeral in 1958:  Dorothy Ware, Burt Thayer Waltman, Goldie Waltman, Don Waltman, Frank Waltman

(3) Herbert Samuel Waltman, third child of Marcus and Maria Waltman, was born on September 12, 1891, in Denver and died on October 17, 1968, in Ventura, California.  Herbert was a machinist for the Rock Island Railroad for a few years and then moved to Southern California.  In 1930, he was working in Taft, California, for Kaiser Industries.  He married Marguerite Didier, who was born on August 11, 1887.  She died on January 23, 1969, in Oxnard, Ventura County, California.  Two daughters died in infancy.

(4) Frank Monterville Waltman was born  on July 26, 1895, in Denver and died in Denver about 1946.  He was married to Jane (Jennie) Finnegan. She had been born on June 1, 1896, in Washington state and died on November 4, 1986, in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California.  They had no children.

(5) Myron Reed Waltman was born on in Denver on April 2, 1897, and died in Los Angeles on June 12, 1960.  He was married to Evelyn Lavinia Stephen, who was born on September 25, 1896, in Central City, Colorado, and died on July 31, 1952, in Denver.  They had two children, John Thomas Waltman and Myra Edith Waltman.

Herbert Samuel Waltman, 1891-1968	Marguerite Didier, wife of Herbert Samuel Waltman	Myron Reed Waltman, 1897-1960	Frank Monterville Waltman, 1895-1946	Jennie Finnegan, wife of Frank M. Waltman

Margaret (Maggie) Waltman Pearce, 1867-1959.  The  photo at left was taken in Easton, probably in 1889, and shows her looking very much like her mother, Annie Moser Waltman, 23 years earlier (see photo above).  The second picture was taken in Denver, probably about 1891.  The third is believed to be Maggie.  The fourth, about 1892, was called "our  shocking Aunt Maggie" by one relative.				Maggie's husband, Lon Lovick Pearce, 1865-1943, taken in Denver in the 1890s.