1387 HARTWELL WILLIAM OATMAN
1387 HARTWELL WILLIAM7 (Eli6, Darius5, Benjamin4, George3, John2, Johannes1), son of Eli and
Eltha (McCollow) Oatman, was born near Tillsonburg, Oxford County, Ontario, 3
August 1870, and died 20 June 1957 at Tillsonburg.
On 27 September
1893 he married Sarah Etta Smith, born 28 January 1868 in Ontario, and died 1
December 1933 in the Tillsonburg/South Norwich area. Both are buried in the New Road Cemetery,
Tillsonburg. They are listed in the 1901
census of South Norwich Township, Oxford County, with sons Floyd, Wilford and
James. In 1935 he was living in South Norwich, Ontario. He was a farmer for most of his life, a
member of the United Church at New Road, and he served the town as Councellor a
number of times.
Children of Hartwell William and Sarah
Etta (Smith) Oatman:
3243 Floyd, b. 13 Jun 1895; m. Gertrude
Russell. Children, surname Oatman:
A Dorothy
3244 Wilfred, b. 25 Oct 1897; d. 12 Nov
1916. He enlisted in the military 28
October 1915, 71st battalion, under Lt. Col. Sutherland. The battalion landed in England in April
1916; he and others were transferred to the 44th battalion and went to France
early in August of that year, where Wilfred was wounded on the firing line on
September 5. After spending five weeks
in a hospital, he returned to his battalion and "had been again in the
trenches several weeks, when he was so severely wounded that he died." (Tillsonburg Observer, 23 November
1916) Wilfred is buried in the Contay British Cemetery, Contay, Somme, France:
“In Memory of Private Wilfrid Oatman, 44th Bn., Canadian Infantry (New
Brunswick Regt.) Who died aged 19 on Sunday, 12th November
1916. Private Oatman was the son of H.
W. and Sarah E. Oatman, Tillsonburg, Ontario.
Remembered with honour.”
3245 James R., b. 22 Dec 1900; d. 1968; bur. with
his wife at New Road Cemetery, Tillsonburg, ON; m. Lila Wellman, 22 Dec 1923;
she was b. 1904; d. 1976. Children,
surname Oatman:
A Kathleen
3246 Ervin H., b. 27 Mar 1904; d. 26 Feb 1971,
Flint, MI; m. Eliza L. King, 29 Apr 1925.
She was b. 19 Apr 1904, Kingston, MI.
Children, surname Oatman:
A Jacqueline Jean
B Marlene Elaine
C Audrey Ann, b. 1936, Flint, MI; m.
Donald G. Cowsert, Dec 1957, b. 1935, Harrisburg, IL. Children, surname Cowsert:
I Susan R., b. 1964, Flint, MI
Sources: B. D. Smith, Springford, ON;
Tillsonburg cemetery records
Tillsonburg Observer, 23 Nov
1916
1901
census, South Norwich Twp., Oxford Co., ON
1911
census, Norwich South, Oxford South, ON
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