Location:
West Side of Rock Road, North of the Stein Road Intersection.
The original school
in this school district may have been built in the early 1820s,
when it would have
been a part Sharon Twp. The 1873 map (above) shows the location
of the farm belonging
to John L. Hartman who came to this area in about 1830.
The last Hartman
School was built in 1898, about the time the second atlas (above)
was compiled. By
this time the Hartman family had purchased additional acreage
in this
immediate area.
This last Hartman school was in operation until the late 1930s.
A
School Becomes a Home.
In
1941, a few years after the Hartman School was closed, and after
it had been
bought
and sold several times, the school became the property of John
and
Laura
/ Landers DeWalt.
John's
father, Samuel Jeremiah DeWalt came to Ohio from Cumberland County,
Pennsylvania in 1898, the same year that the Hartman schoolhouse
was being built.
The
earliest known DeWalt ancestors were John and Mary DeWalt, who
appear
on the records of the Ziegler's Church in Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania
with
their son Tobias, who was born April 26, 1799. Tobias DeWalt
married
Isabella
Kennedy about 1820. They were the parents of at least nine children
of
which Jeremiah DeWalt (born May 24, 1824) was the fourth.
Jeremiah
DeWalt was born in Perry Co., Pennsylvania and married Rebecca
Barrick
(born
1827). They were the parents of four children. Their son William
A. DeWalt was
born
October 9, 1844 in Perry County, Pennsylvana. He enlsted in the
Civil War
in
Co. H. 202nd Regt. PA. Inf. After the war, William married Elizabeth
Gotchall (born 1842- Perry County), and they became the parents
of nine girls and three boys. The
three
boys (Samuel, Albert, and George) all came to Ohio. Samuel was
John's father.
John
DeWalt attended Hartman School, and after finishing his primary
grades there,
he
entered Shelby City Schools, traveling daily to the interurban
stop near Toledo
Junction,
riding to Shelby and then returning at the end of the school
day.
In
1932, John and Laura Landers were married, and in 1941 they had
the
opportunity
to purchase the Hartman School house where John had attended.
photo ca. 1944
photo 1946
They began planning
how they would like to change their school house into their
home. These photos
depict the evolution of the Hartman School (above - top) to the
DeWalt home.
photo 1957
Laura Landers /
DeWalt has kindly allowed the use of the above photos, and has
supplied much information
on the DeWalt Family history.
photo Fall 2000
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