The Wandering Family of Samuel Isaac and Mary Naomi (Estep) Hartman
Samuel Isaac Hartman, and his wife Mary Naomi "Oma" (Estep) Hartman moved around quite a bit. According to Tom Aden, their great grandson, Sam and his sons, would move to a piece of land and clear it (remove the trees). They would sell the lumber, and then move on to a new place. That was difficult and dangerous work 100 years ago. Sam first was married to a woman named Maggie May Hager. The couple had one son, Derek Barkley Hartman, in 1894. In about 1895, Sam and Oma Estep