Annette (McKim) Tallman (1857-1940)

MCKIM, TALLMAN, EVANS, HOON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 10/3/2024 at 16:55:07

From Story City Herald January 18, 1940 (page 4)

Pioneer Woman is Laid to Rest

MRS. A. M. TALLMAN, WHO DIED HERE LAST WEEK, WAS DAUGHTER OF STORY COUNTY'S FIRST JUDGE

Mrs. A. M. Tallman, honored pioneer resident of Jewell, died Monday forenoon of last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Hoon here. Death resulted from the infirmities of her old age; in late years she had been a great sufferer, being bedfast nearly two years.

Annette McKim was the daughter of Daniel Edmund and Patience Ann Evans McKim. She was born in Henderson county, Illinois about 17 miles east of Burlington, Iowa, October 26, 1857 and died January 8, 1940, at the age of 82 years, 2 months and 13 days. At the age of 2 years she moved with her parents to Story county, Iowa, to the homestead her father had secured northwest of Nevada, residing at that place until she was about 15 years of age when the family moved to Nevada. Her grandfather, Evan Evans, was the first judge of Story county.

She was married at the Methodist parsonage in Ames, Ia., January 31, 1877, to Francis Boone Tallman, who preceded her in death March 18, 1913. She was a pioneer in Iowa and South Dakota. After her marriage in 1877, she resided in Nevada until 1879, then moving to Callanan, Hamilton county, Iowa, where her husband had previously started a jeweler's shop. In December 1880, they moved to Jewell where Mr. Tallman had his shop in the John R. King office near the railway station. Their house was moved over from Callanan and was the first residence in Jewell not located on Main street.

PIONEERED IN SOUTH DAKOTA

In the spring of 1884 they moved to South Dakota, her people moving there on account of her mother's health. Her mother died that same autumn but the Tallman family remained in South Dakota about six years. Mrs. Tallman's father and husband took up adjoining preemptive claims near Highmore, building a double house on the line, half on each claim. Mrs. Tallman and her two children and younger brother, I. M. McKim "held down" the claims until they were "proved up," Mr. Tallman working at his trade in Highmore. After proving up on the claim, the family moved to Highmore, where they lived about five years, moving to Pierre to autumn the state capitol was located there. They moved to Ames one year later and in 1892 they moved back to Jewell where Mrs. Tallman has lived continuously ever since, except for intervals spent in the homes of her children at various places in in Iowa until in March, '39 when with her daughter, Mrs. W. S. Hoon and family she moved to Story City where she resided until her death.

FOUR CHILDREN SURVIVE

Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Tallman: one son, George Daniel, having passed away March 27, 1926. The surviving children are Ora Leone (Mrs. W. S. Hoon) of Story City; Lowell C. of Ames; Frank L. of Iowa City; and Russell W. of Des Moines. She is also survived by ten grandchildren, two great grandchildren, one brother, I. M. McKim, and a half brother, Ralph McKim, both of Nevada, Ia. and many nephews, nieces and cousins. She was a member of the Federated church of Jewell.

The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock at the A. L. Fleenor funeral home in Jewell, the Rev. Kenneth E. McDaniel, pastor of the Federated church, officiating. Burial was in Evergreen cemetery in Jewell. At the service the singing was by a quartet, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Fenton and Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Fleenor and a solo by one of her grandsons, George D. Tallman. Six grandsons serve as the pall bearers Ronald Wilder, Keith and Frank Tallman, George D. Tallman and Victor Thompson.