Rebecca Tatman

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According to Emma Newcomer Tatman, Joseph Tatman Jr. and Rebecca lived in Paris KY for a while after they were married. Apparently Joseph and Rebecca received a homestead grant in Montgomery Co. OH which was later to be the property of Merritt Tatman their son. Of these early pioneers (in Montgomery Co.), Rev. Joseph Tatman immigrated from Kentucky and located in 1800. They came to Ohio in 1798 and settled in what is now Brown County, where they remained three years or until 1801, when they came to Bethel Township. Among the early settlers of the township, the following-named located prior to the year 1810: Rev. Joseph Tatman, John Ainsworth, Robert Miller, James Miller, John Booher, John Duncan Campbell, John Hacker. Henry Jennings, Peter Sunderland, John Slagle, Jacob Arnold, Valentine Shearer,John Cuppy, nee[sic] Lydia Oilar, Henry Oilar, Levi Jennings, Simon Brenner Jacob Brenner Lewis Brenner Samuel Petticrew, John Petticrew, John Shafer, Joseph H. Johnson, Nathan Maddux, Ignatius Maddux. Henry Deam, James Black, John Boober and John McFadden. During the next decade, there were, with other accessions to the immagrant population, James Black, Johnathan Knight, George Favorite, Elias Matthews, John Matthews, Robert Archibald, David Archibald, James Kay, Abraham Buckley, John Slagle, William Hoover, John Zediker. Joseph Tatman was born in Virginia in 1770; and his wife Rebecca in North Carolina in 1772. They came to Brown County, Ohio, in 1801, to this township. They had thirteen children. He was an earnest and devout minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and had charge of the congregation of the first organization in the township, of which further notice will be taken in this historic sketch. He was appointed Associate Judge after the county was organized, and held that office several years. He was also a member of the Legislature. He was a Representative in the General Assembly of Ohio and is remembered as a man of strict probity and large common sense, combined with Christian benevolence. He died on January 27, 1827,i and his wife in 1864.ii It is related of him that, when driving his team to Cincinnati, in company with his neighbor, John Hacker, in passing the cabin of a poor widow, he was importuned by her to sell her a little flour-that she had not the means to purchase a barrel. In the condition of the roads in those days, a trip to the city and return took some eight or ten days, and it was Sunday day when the widow's request was made. He, however, rolled out a barrel and received what mite she could spare in full pay for it. On their return, Hacker who was a member of his church reported him for violating the Sabbath selling flour on the Lord's Day!iii Rev. Tatman was assigned to the Miami Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1813.iv There have been references to a Palmer's Chapel in the area which may have served as his home church. Some Tatman's were married there and some may be burried there. Further research by genealogist will be needed to confirm this.

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