1643 ISAAC BENJAMIN OATMAN
1643 ISAAC BENJAMIN7 (Isaac
H.6, Elisha5,
Isaac4, George3,
John2, Johannes1), son
of Isaac H. and Charlotte (Chapman) Oatman, was born at Hartford, Washington
County, New York, 2 October 1855, and died at Salem, Washington County, New
York, 4 October 1918.
He married: 1) Hattie Wilson, who was born ca 1861; 2) Christine, daughter of Elias and Jane Ann
(Dickinson) Smith, on 21 March 1904; she was born 8 February 1871 and died 19
February 1949; they were married by Rev. A. W. Morris of Greenwich, New York.
The family settled
at Salem, New York.
Isaac Benjamin was
a farmer and worked the lower farm at Belcher, New York, which he purchased
from his father's estate. In his younger
days he ran a livery stable; he also held an interest in a lantern factory at
Schuylerville, New York. He was
Undersheriff of Washington County for a time.
Upon his marriage to Christine Smith, the couple went to Sacramento,
California, for their honeymoon and, before returning to New York, Isaac
Benjamin was foreman on a ranch in Nevada.
By 1900 he was living with his brother Orlin in Hebron, New York. In 1910, in Hebron Township, Washington
County, New York, Isaac, a farmer aged 84, was living with his second wife of
five years, Christine. Living with them
was his son Ralph Isaac. He died of
pernicious anemia in 1918 and was interred in the Oatman Plot at Salem, New
York.
Elias Smith,
father of Christine, served in the Northern Army during the Civil War and was a
member of the "Black Horse Cavalry".
Children of Isaac Benjamin and Christine
(Smith) Oatman:
3909 Lawrence I., b. 17 Apr 1905, NY; d. 22 Apr
1905
3910 Ralph
Isaac, b. 6 Jul 1908, Salem, NY; d. 14 Aug 1994, Avon, Hartford Co., CT; m.
Helen Elizabeth Parkhurst
3911 Walter Elijah, b. 1 Mar 1914, Belcher, NY;
d. 21 Nov 1965; m. Edna Lange
Sources: Hebron Preservation Society, Hebron,
a City in Review, 1987
1880 census,
Village of Belcher, Hebron Twp., Washington Co., NY
1900 Soundex,
Hebron, Washington Co., NY
1910
census, Hebron Twp., Washington Co., NY
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