The following obituary was published in "The State", Columbia, Richland Co, SC on Jan 27, 2007 Mary A. Forrest Hallman WARD - Services for Mrs. Mary A. Forrest Hallman, age 90, will be held Sunday, January 28, at 3 p.m. at Bland Funeral Home in Johnston with burial to follow in Dry Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5-8 p.m. Saturday evening. Memorials may be made to the charity of one's choice. Mrs. Hallman, a native of Saluda County, wife of the late Fhay Hallman, died Friday, January 26,2007. She was a daughter of the late James Grigsby and Lula Shealy Forrest. She retired from the Aiken County School System as a food service employee and was a member of Dry Creek Baptist Church. Survivors include son, Donald F. (Donna) Hallman, North Augusta; daughters, Naomi H. (Joel) Goldman, Ward, Kay H. (Frank) Strickland, Aiken; sisters, Eleanor Hare, Monetta and Delight Rodgers, Batesburg, and a large extended family which included a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Fhay Hallman, brother, J.W. Forrest, and sister, Virginia Matthews. I don't know her line other than the parents given in this obit but have met her son Donald Hallman at a Rauton/Lott family reunion in 2002. The Hallman line is as follows: 1 Brooks Hallman b: in probably Edgefield Co, SC .. +Emma Alice Fallaw b: in probably Edgefield Co, SC ..... 2 Gordon Brooks Hallman b: Jun 09, 1891 in Edgefield Co, SC d: Jan 02, 1945 in Saluda Co, SC Burial: Spann UMC, Ward, Saluda Co., SC ......... +Effie May Lott b: Aug 29, 1891 in SC d: Jan 04, 1963 Burial: Spann UMC, Ward, Saluda Co., SC Father: **Jesse Allen LOTT Mother: Talitha Catherine WILLIAMS ............ 3 Gordon Fhay Hallman b: Aug 04, 1916 d: Mar 16, 1976 Burial: Dry Creek Baptist Church Cem., Saluda Co, SC ................ +Mary Annie Forrest b: Sep 08, 1916 in Saluda Co, SC d: Jan 26, 2007 Burial: Dry Creek Baptist Church, Ward, Saluda Co, SC Father: James Grigsby FORREST Mother: Lula SHEALY .................... 4 Donald Fhay Hallman ........................ +Donna Thomas b: in Seatle, Washington .................... 4 Naomi Hallman ........................ +Horace Hildebrand .................... *2nd Husband of Naomi Hallman: ........................ +Joel Goldman .................... 4 Kay Hallman ........................ +Frank Strickland **Have more info. on the Jesse All Lott family than the others in this line. I have a Lula Shealy who married a Gentry. Wonder if she first married James Grigsby Forrest? I was unable to find James Grigsby Forrest in a census search in 1920. Billie Jones Camden, SC tjones@camden.net