Chauncy Tarman (1850-1933)

TARMAN, MANNING, DIAMOND, BREMER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 4/20/2014 at 09:38:56

From Ames Milepost May 1933

CHAUNCY TARMAN

Chauncy Tarman, 83, of Nevada, died at Iowa Sanitarium after being confined there for a week suffering from bladder trouble and other complications.

Mr. Tarman, who had been a resident of Nevada for about 40 years, thirty of which he had been actively engaged in business, was a man of wide acquaintances and held in the very highest of esteem of those who knew him best.

He was a native of Ohio, born at Zanesville, March 7, 1850. There he lived as a boy and moved with his parents to McLean county, Ill., where he spent the younger years of his manhood and was twice married.

His first wife was Lizzie manning and to this union two children were born. The eldest son, Jesse Tarman, died in January 1932, while the sister, Mrs. Nellie Diamond, is a resident of Dallas, Texas. The mother of these two died during the family residence in Illinois.

It was in 1884 that he was married to Althea Strong at Gridley, Ill., and to this union three children were born and with the mother survive the husband and father. They are Mrs. Blanche Bremer of Ucross, Wyoming, Harry Tarman of Ames and Francis C. Tarman of Nevada.