When Joshua Norman Haldeman was born on 25 November 1902, in Pequot Lakes, Crow Wing, Minnesota, United States, his father, John Elon Haldeman, was 31 and his mother, Almeda Jane Norman, was 25. He married Winnifred "Wyn" Josephine Fletcher on 7 June 1942, in Moose Jaw, Moose Jaw No. 161, Saskatchewan, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He immigrated to Raymond, Sheridan, Montana, United States in 1947 and lived in Saskatchewan, Canada in 1916 and Swift Current No. 137, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1926. He died on 13 January 1974, in Transvaal, South Africa, at the age of 71, and was buried in Gauteng, South Africa.
Americanized form of South German Haldemann: topographic name for someone who lived on a mountainside or slope, from Middle High German halde ‘slope’ + man(n) ‘man’.
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