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Male Haldaman Lineage (with mother's maiden name): Christian Haldiman Switz 1572- Christian Jenni Haldemann Switz 1597 Ulrich Ellenberger Haldimann Switz 1638 Christian Stram Haldeman Switz 1656 Nicholas Wyss Haldeman Switz, PA 1686- Christian unk. Haldeman Switz, PA 1715-1800 Abraham Krey Haldeman PA, VA, NC 1746-1798 Christian unk. Haltaman NC 1775-1830 Jacob Smith Haldaman NC. IL 1813-1862 DCL Kistler Haldaman NC IL 1841-1926 George File Haldaman IL MO OK 1869-1966

How do you spell "Haldaman"? If you speak German and tell the Census Taker that your name is Haldaman, he will spell it out the way it sounds. There were no standardized spellings in 1820, so it came out the way it sounded. Even as late as the 1930 Census, Haldaman tended to be anglicized in different ways. Some of the ways it has been spelled are: Haldaman, Haldeman, Haltaman, Hallaman, Halterman, Holtermian, Holterman, Heleman, Halderman, Holderman, Holdeman, Huldiman, Haldimann, Haldimand, Alderman. All these names sound much the same if you listen in German. Haldeman is the most common form of the name. The five original settlers came to Pennsylvania (thus Pennsylvania Deutch German) in the early 1600s. They spelled their name Haldeman or Halderman. They were probably all Anabaptists (Menonites). Halde is an ancient farm outside the village of Langnau, Emmenthal, Switzerland. Haldeman means one who lives on the side of a hill.

Jim Bryden's Book 1851 Bryden Genealogy & Pics George W. Haldaman family  : Haldaman Genealogy 1800 Sep. 1 Cabarrus NC marriage Christian Holdeman to Mary Smith 1810 NC census Chrisn. Halteman 1820 NC census Christian Haltaman (ac says Hallaman) 1830 NC census Christian Halterman -------------------------- 1825 Jan. 1 Rowan NC marriage Abraham Holderman to Enny Stirewalt 1830 NC census Abraham Halterman 1840 NC census Abraham Holderman 1850 NC census Alrm Halterman --------------------------------- 1839 Rowan NC marriage Jacob Haldaman to Margaret Kiesler 1840 NC census Jacob Jim Haldeman 1841Peggy Kistler Haldaman's father's will refers to Jacob Halteman 1850 IL census Jacob Halderman 1851 death notice of Margaret Haldaman lists husband as Jacob Haldaman 1852 Montgomery IL marriage Jacob Haldaman to Crissy Rebecca Troutman ------------------ 1850 IL census Doctor Halderman 1870 IL census Christian Halderman 1880 IL census DCL Haldaman 1900 MO census Doctor Halderman (or Peter) --------------- 1870 IL census George Halderman 1869.4 1880 IL census George W Haldaman 1870 1900 OK census George Haldaman 1910 OK census George W Haldaman 1920 OK census Loyd W Holderman 1870 1930 OK census G M Holdeman 1870  This is the history of my family, in words and pictures. To see the family tree, go to RootsWeb and search for James Thomas Bryden (that's me.)

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The Haldaman family from North Carolina to Illinois my great grand-parents Doctor Christian Luther Haldaman ("D.C.L.") (1840-1926), born in North Carolina. father: Jacob Haldaman 1814-1862 mother: Margaret "Peggy" Kistler 1819-1851 Christina Catherine "Katie" FILE (1843-1881), born in Illinois. father: George File, 1808-1863 from North Carolina mother:  Mary Ann Troutman, 1819-1910, from North Carolina (Mary Ann's sister, Christine Rebecca, later married DCL's father Jacob) DCL and Katie were married MAY 15, 1863 in Illinois. They had 9 children, all born in Illinois: Mary C. Haldaman (Jim Keith) 1864 - Margaret Francis Haldaman, 1866-1920 Jacob Lee "Jake" Haldaman, 1868- George Washington Haldaman, 1869-1966 (my grandfather) Edmond W. Haldaman, 1870-1871 Jackson, Illinois James Franklin "Frank" Haldaman, 1871- W. Dovas "Dovie" Haldaman, 1874-1957 Henry "Arthur" Haldaman, 1877-1957 Boeus G. Haldaman, 1879-1880 Jackson, Illinois DCL remarried, in about 1882, to Serena Johnson (1860-1930?). They had 4 children, all born in Jackson, Illinois or nearby Cape Girardeau, Missouri: Daniel Harrison "Dan" Haldaman , 1883-197? Flora B. Haldaman, 1886-1972 Dora Haldaman, 1889- Charlie Haldaman, 1890- Stepsisters Fannie and Nannie Johnson (Kohler) DCL is sometimes referenced as Christian, though his given name was Doctor Christian Luther. DCL served in the 153rd Regiment, Northampton County, Pennsylvania during the Civil War. Noted as Christian Haldeman, he entered Dec. 13, 1861, surgeon's discharge on March 5, 1862. He walked with a limp, they said he had "water on the knee."

Jacob Haldaman, 1814-1862. my great-great grandfather. married Margaret "Peggy" Kistler 1819-1851 (my great-great-grandmother), married in 1839, had one child: Doctor Christian Luther Haldaman ("DCL") (my great-grandfather),1840-1926 Marriage and Death Notices from the Lutheran Observer: "Mrs. Margaret Haldaman, wife of Jacob Haldaman, an officer of the Ev. Luth Church of this county (Montgomery, Ill.), died on the 14th., by the accidental firing of a musket by her nephew, Mr. Abraham A. M. Haldaman, born in N. C., and is a daughter of Mr. John Kistler, of that State, also a sister of Rev. Paul Kistler, of Hillsboro." Nov. 20, 1851. he remarried, Christina "Rebecca" Troutman 1828-, on Jan. 1, 1852 (this was Katie File's Aunt -- Mary Ann Troutman's sister.)  Their children (all born in Illinois): Sarah Ann Haldaman 1858- Elizabeth G "Bettie" Haldaman (Norton). 1859-1948 Chrissie Rebecca 1862-1944 I have found very little information on Jacob Haldaman, the picture shown appears to be of a man much older than the 48 years he would have been at death. Because Jacob was the first to use the Haldaman spelling, I have speculated that perhaps he was the first to have an English education, or perhaps they were visited by relatives who told them their name was Haldeman, not Halterman. The death notice of Peggy Kistler was the first link I had to Abraham Haldaman, and there is an Abraham Holterman family in the 1840 census of Cabarrus, NC, 10 people. Plus Jacob Haldaman, who was 20-30 years old. Probably they were brothers. They owned no slaves. The 1880 census in Ridge, Jackson, Illinois showed the D.H. Long family (Christina had remarried), living near the DCL Haldaman family. Living with Christina were 5 stepsons and stepdaughters named "Halderman" -- the 3 noted above, but also including Jacob H. and Charles F. born in 1876 and 1878, rather late since Christina would have been 50 at their birth, and Jacob was long dead.

Jacob Haldaman?

	TROUTMAN When Peggy Kistler Haldaman was accidentally killed by musket fire shortly after they had moved to Illinois, Jacob remarried within two months, he married Katie File Haldaman's aunt.. The Troutmans were big in North Carolina, there is even a town there named Troutman. They were slave-holders, and to this day a large number of Troutmans are black, descendants of their slaves. John Absalom Troutman was the largest slave-holder. Just as the Troutmans and Haldamans spoke German, so did their slaves, right up to the time of the Civil War. DCL fought and was seriously wounded, fighting for Illinois. The Troutmans fought on both sides of the conflict. I suspect that Slavery, and the Civil War in general, were the main reason they moved to Illinois. John Absalom Troutman remained in North Carolina, most of the rest of the family did move to Illinois.  Otho Troutman
c1889: The five surviving children of Jacob Troutman and Christina Walcher. Standing are Mary Ann "Polly" Troutman (mother of Katie File, DCL Haldaman's Grandmother), Christina Rebecca Troutman (second wife of Jacob Haldaman), and Sarah Mariah Troutman. Sitting are John Absalom Troutman and Simeon P. Troutman. Does John Absalom appear awfully smug? This, and all the other Troutman info. is from the Reburke Troutmn pages.

The Haldamans were farmers, for as far back as I have found. The Reverand Carl Thurman Smith published a study of the Haldeman family which indicates that the first US settlers came to Pennsylvania from Switzerland in the early l700s. They were fleeing Religous persecution as Anabaptists (Mennonites), and were very religous through the first three generations. (Other Haldemans remained strongly Mennonite for many generations, especially around Elkhart, Indiana. One of the sects is even called Holderman Mennonite.) Others have traced the Haldemann family as far back as 1572. Nicholas was the first to come to the US. The Holdermans also trace their ancestry back to Nicholas, then Christian, but then they go to a son named Jacob. My line goes to a son named Abraham. Abraham was also strongly religious. He was fined twice for refusal to bear arms. He moved from Pennsylvania to Virginia, and then to North Carolina where he died in 1798. These Anabaptists are hard to track since they avoided being recorded, their baptisms were not until they were adults, and they kept naming their children with the same names. Abraham is often confused in genealogy circles with his cousin, Abraham Cassel Haldeman, the son of Nicholas Junior. Even in Rev. Thurman Smith's book he only mentions "possibly a son Abraham" born to Christian. In fact an earlier Jacob may have lived in North Carolina. In the 1800 census for Cabarrus County there is a Jacob Hodeman, and in 1840 Jacob is listed as either Jacob Jim or Jacob Junior Haldeman. (Juniors were the Younger, not necessarily the son.) There was a great migration of the Pennsylvania Dutch Germans to the South, my family came to North Carolina after the Revolutionary War, about 1800. The Great Wagon Road (with The Great Valley Road) carried hordes of settlers Southward. Entire families moved together, Aunts, Uncles, cousins. Sometimes the men came first. Moving was a great undertaking, using Wagon Trains along a trail that hardly existed. In Rowan and Cabbarus Counties of North Carolina, the Haldamans married into the families of Kistler, Troutman, Walcher, Lingle, and File. About 1840 the families moved to Ridge, Jackson County, Illinois. Haldamans, Troutmans, Kistlers and Files all moved to Illinois, a journey of over 600 miles. Why they moved is open to speculation. At that time, they would still be traveling by Wagon. Much of the family is still there, near Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The earliest record of Christian, Abraham's son, is his marriage to Mary Smith (Maria Schmidt) in 1800. Mary and Christian had probably 7 children. When Jacob's oldest brother Abraham (1801-) moved to Illinois along with much of the family, they used the name Halterman. They still live in and around Ana, Illinois.

Male Haldaman Lineage, with mother's maiden name: Christian Haldiman Switz 1572- Christian Jenni Haldemann Switz 1597- Ulrich Ellenberger Haldimann Switz 1638- Christian Stram Haldeman Switz 1656- Nicholas Wyss Haldeman Switz, PA 1686- Christian unk. Haldeman Switz, PA 1715-1800 Abraham Krey Haldeman PA, VA, NC 1746-1798 Christian unk. Haltaman NC 1775-1830 Jacob Smith Haldaman NC IL 1813-1862 DCL Kistler Haldaman NC IL 1841-1926 George File Haldaman IL MO OK 1869-1966 (every other grandfather was named Christian)     Group migrations continued in later years, when George Haldaman and Maggie Daisy May Crum moved to Oklahoma, other Crums and Haldamans came also. In the twentieth century, both Rosa Haldaman and Raymond Haldaman moved to California.

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