Obituary -  Rev. Wendell Hallman

- from the Berlin Daily Telegraph, Mon., May 2, 1910:
DEATH OF REV. W. HALLMAN - Waterloo County Pioneer Passes Away on Sunday
Morning in Yale, Mich. - WAS IN HIS 83RD YEAR - The sad intelligence was
received in Berlin on Sunday by Rev. H. S. Hallman, of the death of his
venerable father, Rev. Wendel Hallman, which took place in the morning
at the home of the deceased's daughter, Mrs. Levi Donnenworth, Yale,
Mich., where he has resided during the last three years. The deceased
had been suffering from dropsy for several years but the direct cause
was heart failure. The remains will be brought to Berlin on Wednesday
morning and taken to the residence of Rev. H.S. Hallman, Bingeman
Street, and the funeral will be held in the afternoon at 2 o'clock to
the Bethany Mennonite Church, and interment will take place at the East
End Mennonite cemetery. (Faith, this is First Mennonite Cemetery)
The late Rev. Wendell Hallman, the youngest s/o Benjamin and Elizabeth
(Detweiler) Hallman, was born in North Dumfries Township on November
11th, 1827, and was in his 83rd year. His boyhood days were spent on his
father's farm near Roseville. On Feb. 13th, 1849, he was married to
Nancy Schlichter. Soon after their marriage they settled on a farm about
a mile west of New Dundee, where they resided until March 20th, 1883,
when they sold their farm and moved to Yale, Michigan, where he again
purchased a farm and followed farming for several years when he retired.
Nearly 45 years ago he was ordained to the ministry of the River
Brethren (Dunkards) denomination, for which today he was a diligent
worker. He was a thoughtful and practical preacher and endeavored to
live the Gospel as he preached it.
There was a family of 14 children of whom ten survive, namely, John,
Yale; Benj. S., British Columbia; Rev. Henry S., Berlin; Wendell S.,
Chicago; Simeon, Toronto; Mrs. Philip Zeller, Mrs. Levi Dunnenworth,
Mrs. Emanuel Gingerich, Mrs. Jos. Smith and Mrs. Isaiah Martin, all of
Yale, Michigan. One brother, Rev. Benj. Hallman, of Roseville, who is
six years older than the deceased and one sister, Mrs. Enoch Ziegler,
Irvin street, Berlin, also survive."