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American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) about Mindwell Taylor
Name: Mindwell Taylor
Birth Date: 1660
Birthplace: Connecticut
Volume: 174
Page Number: 456
Reference: A genealogical dict. of the first settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692. By James Savage. Boston. 1861. (4v.)v.2:290

American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) about Mindwell Taylor
Name: Mindwell Taylor
Birth Date: 1677
Birthplace: Connecticut
Volume: 174
Page Number: 456
Reference: A genealogical dict. of the first settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692. By James Savage. Boston. 1861. (4v.)v.4:261 Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 16 Mar 1927, 5123; 21 Mar 1927, 5122; 22 Jun 1927, 5123

Mindwell married Daniel Sherman, Sr. on 14 Feb 1744 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. Daniel (son of John SHERMAN, Jr. and Emma PRESTON) was born on 14 Aug 1721 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States; was christened on 20 Aug 1721 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States; died on 28 Jul 1799 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States; was buried in So Cemetery, Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Hannah married Daniel MANVILLE on 11 Feb 1764 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. Daniel was born on 8 Jun 1740 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States; was christened on 8 Jun 1740 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States; died on 3 Apr 1789 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Emma married Robert WARNER on 19 Feb 1772 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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!NOTE: Daniel Sherman II lived in Conneticut, New York State, and Ohio. He had been farming in the East and moved to Ohio about 1800, probably in the vicinity of Mansfield and perhaps later toward Toledo and Ottowa County.

Daniel married Elizabeth MITCHELL on 21 Dec 1782 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. Elizabeth was born about 1760 in Connecticut, United States; died on 3 Jan 1853 in Wakeman, Huron, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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LDS Ancest file gives date 4 May, 1815

Taylor was a lawyer of Norwalk

Taylor married Elizabeth STODDARD in 1787 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. Elizabeth was born on 1 Jun 1769; died on 21 Aug 1848. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Thomas McFARRAN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Serena ADAMS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hannah JONES. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Susan WOODWARD. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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James married Sarah TERRY about 1796. Sarah was born on 10 Jun 1775 in Connecticut, United States; died on 6 Sep 1859 in Whitehall, Washington, New York, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Peter Sherman
Birth: Sep. 11, 1794
Woodbury
Litchfield County
Connecticut, USA
Death: Feb. 22, 1878
Wakeman
Huron County
Ohio, USA


Family links:
Parents:
Elizabeth Mitchell Sherman (1761 - 1853)

Spouse:
Samantha Mallory Sherman (1805 - 1860)*

Children:
Clara Sherman (____ - 1837)*
John Sherman (1833 - 1834)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Sherman Cemetery
Wakeman
Huron County
Ohio, USA

Created by: Jim Z>
Record added: May 10, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 36929053

Family/Spouse: Samantha Mallory. Samantha was born on 7 Jan 1805 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 7 Jun 1850 in Wakeman, Huron, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

One source states that he was born 2 May 1797 in New York andHe married Hannah Nelson in New York and moved to Ontario Canada.

!NOTE: (from Vernon Sherman's transcripts)
Andrew Sherman was born 2 may 1797. He moved to Ohio with his father, Daniel, a farmer from the east, about 1800. The family is believed to have originally settled in the general vicinity of Mansfield. They may have later moved toward Toledo, possibly into Ottowa County. Insofar as we knew, their work was farming in the main and possibly canal work or work in the woods in the off season.

Andrew married Hannah Nelson in Ohio in1823. Andrew was 25 and Hannah 14 at the time. Her birthday was 19 November1808. In the "horse and buggy" era, it is quite certain that Andrew was living in the same rural community as the Nelsons when he met Hannah.

Hannah's father, Rodney Nelson, was said to have been born in England. Hannah's family, or a branch of it, appear to have settled later in and about Fairground, Ontario. 56 years later (1880), "Uncle Ruben" Nelson was the doctor who delivered Milton Kellum Sherman at Kings Mill just a few miles from Fairground. Milton recalls that his father, James, who was born and raised near Fairground, Ontario, had an "Uncle Rodney" Nelson. Uncle Rodney, born about 1810, was quite possibly Hannah's brother and his own father's name sake. He would know family history. In any case there was so much bitter animosity between James Sherman and his Uncle Rodney Nelson that the children were forbidden to call him "Uncle". Milton recalled that his great-uncle Rodney Nelson died a very old man about 1890, and that even after the old man was buried, Milton's father declared he "ought to go down and stomp in the old so and so's grave."

1825. Andrew and Hannah moved the Michigan Territory, had a farm near Berlin MI in Ottawa Co, about 15 miles northwest of Grand Rapids MI. He built a log house and barn with rail fences. Berlin MI named changed in the 1940s to Marne MI (mc/mp; mc/sp).

Hannah was not quite fifteen at the time her first baby, Adney, was born, 25 Aug 1823. Then Unas Ann was born 2 May 1825. Their five other children were born in Michigan. All of the children were raised in Ottawa County, Michigan.
Andrew and Hannah moved to the Michigan territory about 1825. There were several possible reasons for this move north and west. Times were not good, they were in fact deteriorating toward the great depression of 1837 when credit collapsed, trade became paralyzed and banks reneged on their circulating bank notes. By 1825, Andrew, married with a two year old son and baby daughter, needed a place of his own. This nearby Michigan Territory, (or Michillimackinac as it was also called), was top conversation among his friends and family.

John Sherman (U.S. Secretary of Treasury) speaking of his boyhood in Ohio said, "nearly every able-bodied man served in the Indian Wars or in the War of 1812". He mentions Shermans who fought at Detroit. Andrew or another of his family might well have been there. In any case, by the time he was 29, (1825), he'd heard a great deal about Michigan including the call for men to work on the new road from Detroit to Chicago.

Andrew and Hannah had a farm near Berlin, in Ottawa County, Michigan. It was a cross-roads rural center, about fifteen miles northwest of Grand Rapids. He built a log house and barn with rail fences. In later years (1860), the old Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad ran through Berlin, which was on the line from Grand Rapids to Grand Haven. Berlin was renamed Barne sometime aroung 1917 when the anti-German feeling of World War II was intense. Cooperville, the county seat, is the next town west along the rail line. Andrew's son, William (born 1841) is known to have lived in or near Cooperville around 1875.

Andrew's son Adney, became a physician of note and the Principal of a Medical College somewhere in Southwest Michigan. Andrew's daughter, Unas Ann is believed to have married a Dr. Harvey and to have lived in Chicago. Joseph Henry was the only one known to have gone to Southern Ontario, Canada, about 1848. This explains why so few Shermans appear in Ontario records. I found not one Sherman in the 100 year records (1850 to 1950) of Oxford County Coal at Woodstock, Ontario. The Sheriff at Woodstock in the old days served both Oxford and Norfolk Counties. I found only three in the records (prior to 1900) of the Norfolk County Home at Simicoe, Ontario, Canada.

During Andrew's first years in Michigan, He cleared his land and built a log house and barn. Split rail fences, stump fences and pole fences were built. Wire fence was unknown in the 1820's. His farm was noted for an exceptionally fine sugar bush. His neighbor and very good friend was a Frenchman, Andrew Chappella. Andrew Sherman reminisced frequently during his last years on the experiences they had shared. When Andrew and Hannah went to Michigani it was known as the Michigan Territory. On maps of the day it was frequently referred to as Michillimackinac, the original Indian name. As recently as 1813 the territory had been recovered from the British. Andrew and Hannah were there in 1837 when Michigan was admitted to the Union. They were truly pioneers.

Andrew and Hannah's Michigan was the nation's lumber pile. The people and its settlements followed the saw mills in their endless attack on the virgin forests. Birth and death records did not exist. Things were happening too fast, everything was too new. people were too unsettled to bother with records. The planned only against the deep snow of the coming winter. Strong green tea, heavy Mackinaw clothing, a barrel of flour, a side of beef, a sack of beans, yellow corn meal, and rolled oats were much more important. You would probably be snowed in and if you were not self-sufficient, you would certainly suffer the consequence. Michigan winters were long and cold. Water in the tea kettle would freeze before morning, when the match would be put to cedar shavings under a new pine fire. Every log house and rough lumber shack had its outdoor root cellar, dug well below the four foot frost line, for vegetables and canned goods. Everyone who could walk, went "berrying" when mother gave the word, for come winter, her jars had to be filled.

In his last years (around 1865) Andrew went to Canada to live with Joseph for a time. It is probable that both Andrew and Hannah had previously stayed with other children in Michigan at or near Cooperville, Lumberton, Hungerford or Big Rapids. By 1850, Grand Rapids was joined to Tilsonburg (some 300 miles away) by the Michigan Central railroad. Sherman families visited back and forth. For example, Joseph Henry's daughter, Mary Jane, had visited his brother William's family at Cooperville, Michigan, about 1879 when she was 18. There she met Charlie Mercier. He visited her in Ontario next year at which time they were married (1880). They raised their family of five children in Ontario near Fairground. Also about 1875 William's boy from Cooperville, Michigan, had visited his Uncle Joseph at Fairground, Ontario.

Andrew is said to have died at Tilsonburg, Ontario, Michigan about 1867. The exact date and place of burial has not been found. Hannah had died before him but again the date and place are unknown. She might be buried in the Baptist Cemetary on Lake Road less than a mile east of Hemlock, Ontario. A daughter-in-law, matilda Jane, and five infant great-grandsons of Hannah's are buried there. It is more likely, however, thet Hannah lies buried in a now forgotten grave near one of the Michigan towns mentioned above.

Joseph's grown son, James Milton, lived at Lumberton, Michigan, (1881-1883) then moved back to Fairground, Ontario, and lived there until he finally moved to Oscoda, Michigan (1900). It follows that family data for the period 1827-1900 may exist at either end of this Ontario-Michigan axis, particularly near the towns mentioned or along logical travel routes between them.

http://www.sherman-roots.com/sherman/pioneers/sp'ott.doc
1797. May 2d, Andrew born in CT (mc/mp; not in SD).
1800. About, Andrew moved with parents from CT to OH, probably in the vicinity of Marshfield OH, later moved towards Toledo OH possibly Ottawa Co. (mc/mp).
1808. Nov 18th, Hannah Nelson born, father Rodney Nelson (mc/mp).
1822. About, Andrew married Hannah Nelson in OH (mc/mp).
1825. Andrew and Hannah moved the Michigan Territory, had a farm near Berlin MI in Ottawa Co, about 15 miles northwest of Grand Rapids MI. He built a log house and barn with rail fences. Berlin MI named changed in the 1940s to Marne MI (mc/mp; mc/sp).
1863/64. Possible: A Sherman a harness maker of Lamont MI (MI Gazetteer & Business Directory p374).
1865. Andrew went to Canada to live with his son Joseph
1867. Andrew Sherman died Tilsonburg, Ontario Canada (mc/mp). 7 Children:

Andrew married Hannah NELSON on 28 Oct 1822 in Ohio, United States. Hannah (daughter of William NELSON and Eunice Young) was born on 18 Mar 1804 in Saltfleet, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada; died on 18 Dec 1864 in Lamont, Ottawa, Michigan, United States; was buried in Maplewood Cemetery, Lamont, Ottawa, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Charles Sherman moved his family to Lancaster, Ohio about 1806 when he surveyed what was then called the Western Connecticut Reserve. Part of his pay was considerable land in Sherman Township, Huron County, now Ohio. Later he rode circuit as a Judge many years, until his death. He was elected by the Legislature to the bench of the Supreme Court. This if from Vernon W. Sherman).

Charles married Mary HOYT on 10 May 1810 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Horace SMITH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ashley married Sabrina GALLET in 1830 in Whitehall, Washington, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Harry married Lucy SMITH on 13 Sep 1826 in Whitehall, Washington, New York, United States. Lucy (daughter of Joel SMITH and Mary Cross) was born on 9 Feb 1807 in Sharon, Windsor, Vermont, United States; died on 24 Feb 1863 in Geneseo, Henry, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Adaline HARLOW. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

Adney Sherman became a physician and principal of medical school in Southwest Michigan.
In 1860 census of Tallmadge Twp, Ottawa Co. Michigan, indicated Adney age 38, b 1823 in Canada, physician; Lydia age 25, b 1835 in OH, wife; Charles Nelson age 18, born 1842 in Canada; Harriet Nelson age 11, b 1849 in Ohio (p69p319/d578/f526)
(Could they be a relation to Adney's mother Hannah Nelson? maybe cousins?)

http://www.sherman-roots.com/sherman/pioneers/sp'ott.doc
1. Adna/Adney7 Sherman born 1823, perhaps in OH (mc/mp; SD p59). (Gen Refs: not in DPS, NES).
xxxx. Adna married Lydia Mary Winchell [born 1835] (SD p59, from Hobart Genealogy, by Edgar Hobart and Margaret Griffith, San Francisco CA, 1952).
1860. Census of Tallmadge Twp Ottawa Co indicated: Adna (uc) age 38, born 1823 in Canada, physician; Lydia age 25, born 1835 in OH, wife; Charles Nelson age 18, born 1842 in Canada; Harriet Nelson age 11, born 1849 in OH (p69p319/d578/f526). [census unclear]
1862/63. Adna of Lamont MI Ottawa Co entered service in the Civil War in the 7th Cavalry as Assistant Surgeon; commissioned 1862; resigned 1863 (MOW Part II p191; MSS v37p119; GRC; Michigan Medical History Vol 2, p841).
1870. Census of Tallmadge Twp Ottawa Co indicated: Adna age 46, physician; Lydia Sherman age 36; children Abbie, Nina (p273/d56/f54); Allen Stoddard born _____, farmer and Hannah Stoddard born _____ (p273/d56/f55).
188x. No record he belonged to the GAR (SA/GARx).
xxxx. No death or burial record (SA/GRCx). 2 Children:

Family/Spouse: Lydia Mary WINCHELL. Lydia was born in 1835 in Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Unas Ann Sherman married Dr. Harvey and they lived in Chicago.

Family/Spouse: Doctor HARVEY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Timeline for Joseph Henry Sherman:

1827 Jul 13, Joseph born in Berlin, Ionia, Mi
1845 Joseph went to Ontario Canada where his mother's relatives lived.
1850 Feb 4, Joseph married Matilda Jane Fick in Houghton, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada
1851 May 28, son, William Lewis, born Houghton
1854 May 6, son, Joseph Henry, born Houghton
1854 Sep, son Joseph Henry died Houghton
1857 Nov 28, son, James Milton, born Houghton
1859 Feb 12, daughter, Sarah Elizabeth,born Houghton
1861 Aug 10, daughter, Mary Jane,born Houghton
1863 Sep 13, Angeletta Louisa, born Houghton
1868 son, Lambert Lincoln, born Houghton
1871 Census canada, Houghton, Norfolk, Canada with family
1895 Dec 15, wife, Matilda Jane, died in Houghton, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada
1901 Canada census, Joseph is a widow living as a lodger in Houghton, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada
1906 Jun 3, Joseph died in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, at age 79, from old age.

Is this right?
1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia about Joseph Sherman
Name: Joseph Sherman
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1831
Birthplace: N Brunswick
Province: Canada West (Ontario)
District: Wentworth County
District Number: 41
Sub-District: Saltfleet
Sub-District Number: 398
Household Members:
Name Age
Joseph Sherman 21

1861 Census of Canada about Joseph Sherman
Name: Joseph Sherman
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Birth Year: 1827
Birthplace: Canada West
Marital Status: Married
Home in 1861: Houghton, Norfolk, Canada West
Religion: Methodist
Household Members:
Name Age
Joseph Sherman 34 farmer
Matilda J Sherman 30 born Canada West
William L Sherman 10 born Canada West
James M Sherman 5 born Canada West
Sarah E Sherman 2 born Canada West

1871 Census of Canada about Joseph Sherman
Name: Joseph Sherman
Gender: Male
Age: 43
Birth Year: abt 1828
Birth Place: Ontario
Marital Status: Married
Religion: Baptist
Origin: German
Province: Ontario
District: Norfolk South
District Number: 11
Division: 02
Subdistrict: Houghton
Subdistrict Number: a
Neighbors: Jeremiah Fick age 23, Abagail Fick age 23, William age 7, Charles age 3, John age 6/12
all Presbyterian, born Ontario, German origin
Household Members:
Name Age
Joseph Sherman 43 farmer
Matilda Sherman 39 german origin
William Sherman 19
James Sherman 14
Sarah Sherman 12
Mary Sherman 9
Louisa Sherman 7
Lambert Sherman 3

1881 Census of Canada about Joseph Sherman
Name: Joseph Sherman
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Age: 53
Birth Year: 1828
Birthplace: Ontario
Religion: Ch. of the Mesiah
Nationality: New Brunswick
Occupation: Farmer
Province: Ontario
District Number: 157
District: Norfolk South
Sub-District Number: A
Subdistrict: Houghton
Division: 1
Household Members:
Name Age
Joseph Sherman 53
Matelda J. Sherman 49
Lueza Sherman 17
Lambert L. Sherman 13
Elizabeth Burgar 21

1891 Census of Canada about Joseph Sherman
Name: Joseph Sherman
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Age: 63
Birth Year: abt 1828
Birthplace: Ontario
Relation to Head of House: Head
Religion: messiah
French Canadian: No
Father's Birth Place: New Brunswick
Mother's Birth Place: Ontario
Province: Ontario
District Number: 97
District: Norfolk South
Subdistrict: Houghton
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Joseph Sherman 63 Carpenter, father born New Brunswick, Mother born ontario
Matilda Sherman 60 born Ontario, father born USA, Mother born Ontario
Sarah E Sherman 32 born Ontario, father born Ontario, Mother born Ontario
Louise Sherman 27 born Ontario, father born Ontario, Mother born Ontario
Lambert L Sherman 23 born Ontario, father born Ontario, Mother born Ontario
Peter H Fick 88 father, born USA, his father born NS, Mother born USA

1901 Census of Canada
Name: Joseph Sherman
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Widowed
Age: 73
Birth Date: 13 Jul 1827
Birthplace: Ontario
Relation to Head of House: Lodger
Racial or Tribal Origin: German
Nationality: Canadian
Religion: Baptist
Occupation: R Far
Province: Ontario
District: Norfolk (South/Sud)
District Number: 94
Sub-District: Houghton
Sub-District Number: B-1
Family Number: 66
Page: 6
Household Members: Name Age
Joseph Sherman 73

Ontario, Canada Voter Lists, 1867-1900 about Joseph Sherman
Name: Joseph Sherman
Year: 1881
#387, Juror, yes lot wp14 conc 6 owner PO2
Locality: Charlotteville Township
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada

Ontario, Canada Voter Lists, 1867-1900 about Joseph Sherman
Name: Joseph Sherman
Year: 1885
#462 Juror no lot secor2 conc 2 owner PO7
Locality: Houghton Township
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada

Ontario, Canada Voter Lists, 1867-1900 about Joseph Sherman
Name: Joseph Sherman
Year: 1886
#473, Juror, no lot NE cor 2 conc 2 owner PO9
Locality: Houghton Township
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada

Ontario, Canada Voter Lists, 1867-1900 about Joseph Sherman
Name: Joseph Sherman
Year: 1890
#677, Juror, yes lot NE pt 3 conc 13 tenant mf PO18
Locality: Rear of Leeds and Landsdowne Township
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada

One source states that Joseph Henry was born at Houghton Center, BAltfleet Tnship, Walsingham Co.

He was a carpenter and mason. Matilda Fick was a school teacher at Houghton Center, Ontario. Early home of JHs, according to his neighbor, Minnie Patterson, was at Wainfleet near Hamilton, Ontario.

!NOTE: Berlin (now Marne) is near Coopersville, Michigan. Joseph was a farmer and also did carpenter and mason work. Tree grafting and bees were his hobbies. He also tamed bulls. As a boy, he lived in Berlin, Michigan. After 1845, he went to Houghton Township, Norfolk Co, Ontario, Canada to his mother's relatives. He was said to have great strength and was quite agile. He was 6 feet, 6 inches tall. He was a second cousin to Gen Wm. Tecumseh Sherman, General in chief of the US Army 1869-1883 and also to General W. T. Sherman's brother, John Sherman, Secretary of State (1897). Their father's fathers were brothers, 5th and 6th sons of Daniel Sherman I.

(The following was taken from notes of Vernon Sherman, great grandson of Joseph Henry Sherman: Vernon lived at "Apple Acres", M-42, Manton R2, Michigan 49663)
"Joseph Henry Sherman was the third child of Andrew and Hannah Sherman, born 13 July 1827 on a farm near Berlin, (now Marne), Michigan. He left Michigan as a boy of 17 or 18 about 1845, and went to Southern Ontario where he had relatives on his mother's side.
He married Matilda Jane Fick, 4 February 1850, probably at Houghton Center. Matilda was small, She weighed about 95 pounds. She could stand upright beneath her husband's outstretched arm. For three years after their marriage, Matilda continued to teach school at Houghton Center. Shortly after his marriage, Joseph bought a 10 acre piece of land two miles from Houghton Center and on the 3rd Concession Road. He built one of the first frame houses in that section of the Country. He became a carpenter and mason by trade, and many of the original frame buildings in that part of the country were the result, either wholly or in part, of his handicraft. During winter months when building was slack, Joseph did repair work and clock "tinkering".

He set out a 200 tree apple and peach orchard on his 10 acres. He was very successful in grafting of fruit trees. He had an apiary in the orchard to insure fertilization of his trees. His daughter, Sarah Elizabeth recalled that certain trees were regarded as the special property of each of the children. There was Lizzie's tree, Lew's tree, etc. Sarah Elizabeth related that in addition to the orchard, her father had four trees of sweet black cherries and three of the large red English cherry. Southward from the house was a garden plot with three rows of currant bushes, one red, one black and one of the white currants. Between the rows, sod had reformed and under it a swarm of bumble bees had built their nest at one particular spot.

Sarah Elizabeth and her brother James Milton delighted in tormenting this nest of bees. They would prepare for the escapade by pumping several buckets of water. Then one of the youngsters would rap sharply on the ground with a stick to arouse the bees and as they swarmed out, the other would douse them with water to wet their wings and prevent them from flying. Needless to say, this was a highly exciting sport, yet very painful when the bees scored.

Sarah Elizabeth's closest childhood friend was the neighbor girl, Eutachia Lutz. The little girls grew up agile as squirrels. Sarah told of bare foot races along the top of rail fences. Since every other top rail was free to roll, it was necessary to run such sections on the second rail down. That must have been quite a trick. Not all their time was spent in running rail fences. The women of those days had the house and garden to manage, blankets to weave, straw hats to make, etc.

Rye straw was used for hats because of its great strength. After cutting off the grain heads, the straws were soaked in water and bleached dry in the hot sun. They were then soakeed again to make them plyable and were braided into a long continuous cord. The straw cord was then coiled round and round and each coil sewed to the preceding one until the hat brim was reached and the job finished. It took a full day to make a man's hat for use in the fields, and Sarah Elizabeth said they sold for ten cents. To make milady's hat more time was required, since it was necessary to first slit the rye straw into three parts by pulling them over staggered pin points whech projected up through a little trough-like board made for that purpose. These finer straws were then woven into a continuous cord, carefully coiled and sewed to the shape desired. On the Ontario farm of 1865, making your own straw hat was not a hobby, it was necessary if you wanted a hat.

Sarah Elizabeth recalled that when she was 15 (about 1875), a cousin of about her age named William Sherman came from Coopersville, Michigan to help her father on their farm. This lad was a son of her father's brother William.
About 1872 a severe drought made it necessary for Joseph and all of his neighbors to haul water from Clear Creek, a half mile from his farm. The water was put into barrels at the Creek and dragged on a stone=boat to the house throughout the latter part of that summer.

Many stories are told regarding Joseph's great strength and agility. It is related that he could stand in a 1/2 bushel measure and from this position jump through a forward sommersalt and land with his feet back in the measure. He is also said to have fought and "broke" bulls for others. The procedure of "breaking" a bull is to hang onto the bull by his tail with one hand and to punish him mercilessly with a club, hay fork, hand saw or other convenient weapon until his spirit is broken and he evidences his fear of man by bellowing. This treatment though brutal was considered necessary to insure the future safety of people near the animal.

On one occasion, Joseph decided to "break" a neighbor's bull on a holiday morning in the late summer. People from nearby farms were on hand to see the show. Joseph Henry climbed over a fence into a small field with the bull, and began circling him so as to catch him by the tail. Neighbors yelled advice and caution as the man and the animal maneubered. Suddenly, during an attempt to seize the animal's tail, Joseph lost his footing, fell, and was promptly gored by the bull. Several ribs were broken and only the quick aid of his eldest son, William, and neighbors armed with pitchforks saved his life. His good wife accused him of "not having calf brains". In his own home, Joseph Henry is reputed to have been stern to the point of harshness in matters of family discipline.

Close friends and neighbors of the family at Houghton Center were the Pattisons. They had children, Minnie, Howard, Roland and Grace. According to Minnie Pattison, Joseph Henry's "old Home" was in Wainfleet Township, of Oxford County.

Joseph Henry entered the County Home at Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, on 4 December 1905 and died there on 3 June 1905, age 79. He was buried in Farm No. 7.

Because Joseph had died at Simcoe, I visited the County Home looking for facts. They were there. A handful of words scattered to the columns of an old record book, the original entries, the significant corrections. A surprising, pathetic, single line. The main building was unchanged, a two-story red brick, high off the ground and far back from the road. Its narrow dirt drive circled it then shot straight from the front door to the highway like the shortest possible escape. A hundred feet to either side of the long drive, and straight as guides in a copy book, ran two rows of Pine. It was August. The mowed strips were dusty and turning brown. The place looked deserted. No one was in sight as I drove slowly up, circled the building, and stopped below a long porch at the East end. But here were slow moving rockers and old eyes. Some looked toward the road. Some stared away at the fields of the Burial Farm. There seemed no interest in the visitor. Their worn mills of memory groun at the chafe of yesterday.

The old building was depressing, a thing set apart and muffled in time. Small sounds were distant. I climbed the steps to the main entrance. The screen door was large. There was no sing, no arrow, no bell. I went into a narrow, dark hall. It smelled of cabbage, urine, insinfectant. Here was a world behind doors. An inmate brought the nurse, white-starched and busy, busy. An efficient little red-head, helpful, but cocking one eye at the idea of anyone wasting a day on the one-line record of the long dead.

The books were various, old and misused. They'd been kept in several "hands". Someone had begun an index. I was lefyt with them and a story began. December 4, 1905. An old man sat on the edge of a hard chair, nervous, shakey. He was 78. Sixty of those years had known the cold and snow of Ontario's winters. Seemed they were a lot colder lately! Now he was "on the County". They'd brought him here "where he'd be taken care of". The sleigh ride had chilled him. The hot bricks were cold to the feet long before he and the County man had got here. Slowly the warmth of the room began to steal thru his pant legs. He still had his coat on. His big awkward hands fumbled with a heavy cap. His watery eyes sought the sky thru the high narrow windows. Still snowing. He shifted to better see the cluttered office, the "boughten" furniture, the wainscotting of mill lumber all smooth and shellaced like he'd always wanted for his place.

Three weeks to Christmas. Three weeks to excited kids. Their great day would be dead to him. Old wounds ached and loneliness weighed more at Christman. That was all. Christmas for him was buried under the snows of many years, gone with the days when he could do, when he and Matilda had their own place, when his kids were around him, and he had strength in his hands. He minded the time Milt and Dorie were married on a Christmas eve! And the belling. He thought of Matilda Jane and of their seven, and of their first house as he built it, and the planting of the orchard, and the bees. All gone! The kids grown and married and gone, all but Lambert, and the baby that died before the year was up.

He'd always managed, 'till now, and he'd always hoped to "go" with dignit - not here - not like this. He hated being at the mercy of a petty official, hated the lookk that said, 'you're an unwanted nothing". He had no illusions; the once "strongest man in the county, 6 foot 6 inches, was a shakey wreck, helpless, burdensome, and now, gotten-rid-of. He saw himself as they did, and old hulk being herded to the stall he'd die in, and he hated it in his helplessness. He was master of nothing but the trivial details they might want for the record they must keep in the big book just opened across the table from him. A book of a place he wanted no part of, a hated place, a hated book, and he was alone. He had nothing but loneness now and he decided to keep it that way. There was a satisfaction in choice, even as barren as that one was.

"Your name is?" "Leonard" (Leonard, indeed!). "Your age?" "60" (78) "Married?" "Single", "Religion?" "Baptist" And so his one line record began, "Leonard Sherman Age 60 Baptist Single Admitted Dec. 4, 1905. Six months later it was completed with "Died June 3, 1906 Buried Farm No. 07. Then later a correction in sharp hard strokes striking out "Leonard" and "60" to write "Joseph" and "75" And still not correct; because who ever came for what ever reason, after his death and burial by the County (Charles Mercier?), did not know he'd died exactly 39 days before his 79th birthday.

When Joseph died alone in the poor-house, 5 of his 7 children were alive. Of these 5 there were 3 living in Ontario: Sarah, wife of Washington Burger; Mary, wife of Charles Mercier; and Lambert, bachelor. According to Calvin Wilson, who lived there and knew all these people, Joseph had last lived with Mary and Charles Mercier before commitment to the County Home. William Lewis and family lived near Tawas City, Michigan: James Milton and family lived at Oscoda, Michigan. Joseph and I, a great grandson, had never met. I was conceived one month after his death and so commenced a new life-cycle derived from Joseph Henry by the mystery of the gene. And at 63 I'm typing this about him on this page.

The County Home at Simcoe is a two story, twenty-room, plain box-like structure set in the remote center of a flat forty acre piece. The road in is narrow and straight as a bullet aimed at the front door. Architectural beauty it has not. Landscaping it has not. It is at best an awful example of the necessary someplace, as out-of-sight, as out-of-mind, and as remote as can possibly be arranged by any fine Christian community. It hasn't changed since Joseph first saw it. Only the scrub pine along the straight road in has been added, like camouflage too sparingly applied to be effective.

I was glad that I'd come to search and learn and to imagine. I got a new feeling for Joseph that was warm and strangely real. He had become more than the frozen faced old man on a tin-type photograph, more than a big olld man in a heavy coat, wearing an old fashioned cap-hat with a peak over whispy white hair and straggly beard, and staring directly at you with his watery blue eyes and straight Sherman nose, and clutching a heavy cane with both hands for support. Yes, I see alot more; and feel it too. As I walked out into the bright sunshine it felt good. I turned my car around at the highway for a long look back at the building at the end of the long dirt road and the flat fields of 'Farm No. 07' ".

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3. Joseph Henry7 Sherman born Jul 13 1827 in Berlin MI Ottawa Co (mc/mp). Berlin MI named changed in the 1940s to Marne MI (mc/mp; mc/sp).
1831. Aug 24th, Matilda Jane Fick born in Houghton Twp Norfolk Co Ontario Canada (mc/mp; mc/sp).
1845. Joseph left MI went to Houghton Twp Norfolk Co Ontario Canada, where his mothers relatives lived.
1850. Feb 4th, Joseph married Matilda Jane Fick at probably at Houghton Center Houghton Twp Norfolk Co Ontario Canada (mc/mp); or in 1879 Joseph married Matilda Jane Fick at Glenmeyer Ontario (mc/sp).
. Shortly after marriage he purchased 10 acres near Houghton Center; he set out 200 trees, apple and peach, also 8 cherry trees
Joseph was a farmer, also did carpenter and mason work; tree grafting and bees were his hobby; he did clock "tinkering"; he also tamed bulls; he was 6ft 6in tall, had great strength and was very agile (mc/mp).
1895. Dec 15th, Matilda Sherman died at Houghton Twp Norfolk Co Ontario Canada; buried in the
Baptist Cemetery at Houghton Ontario Canada (mc/mp).
1904. Dec 4th, Joseph entered the County Home (farm #7) (mc/mp)
1906. Jun 3rd, Joseph Sherman died at the County Home (farm #7) Simcoe Ontario Canada; also
buried there (mc/mp). 7 Children:

Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1936
Name: Joseph Sherman
Death Date: 3 Jun 1906 c
Death Location: Norfolk, Ontario, Canada
Age: 75 widower
Gender: Male
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1831
Birth Location: American
Residence: County Home
Occupation: Resident - County Home
Single, Widower
Cause of Death: Nephritis 10 days
Religion: Babtist
Name of Person making return: JCC Grasett
Archives of Ontario Microfilm: MS935_126

Joseph married Matilda Jane FICK on 4 Feb 1850 in Houghton, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada. Matilda (daughter of Peter Henry FICK and Mary Fick) was born on 24 Aug 1831 in Houghton, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada; died on 15 Dec 1895 in Houghton, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Baptist Cem, Houghton, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sarah Jane Sherman Hill
Birth: Nov. 18, 1828, Canada
Death: Feb. 5, 1889 Lamont Ottawa County Michigan, USA
Ssrah Jane Sherman was born in Canada on November 18, 1828, daughter of Hannah Nelson Sherman and Andrew Sherman. Sarah married Rushmer Hill in 1848. 1870 U.S. Federal census of Lamont, Michigan Rushmer Hill Sarah Jane Hill Orlando Hill, age about 21, Charles Hill, age about 12, Celicia Hill, age about 7. William Sherman, brother of Sarah Jane, was also living with the Hill family. Sarah Jane Hill is buried in the lot with her husband, Rushmer Hill, her mother, Hannah Nelson Sherman, her borher, William, a Civil War veteran, and her cousin, Charles Nelson, a Civil War veteran. Family links: Parents: Hannah Nelson Sherman (1804 - 1864) Spouse: Rushmer Hill (1825 - 1909) * *Calculated relationship

Burial: Maplewood Cemetery Lamont Ottawa County Michigan, USA
Created by: Joan VS Record added: Sep 03, 2012 Find A Grave Memorial# 96469522

Sarah married Rushmer Hill in 1848. Rushmer was born on 15 May 1825 in New York; died on 11 Jun 1909 in Ottawa County, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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7. William E Sherman born 1841 in Canada (1900 Soundex; mc/mp).
1864. William a farmer owned 80 acres in Sec 3 Polkton Twp (1864 Ottawa and Muskegon Atlas).
1870. Census of Polkton Twp Ottawa Co indicated: William age 29, farm laborer, mother foreign born; enumerated with Mr (uc) Hill born 1825 in NY and Sarah Hill born 1830 in Canada (p210/d9/f9).
188x. No record William belonged to the GAR (AS/GAR).
1890. William Sherman not shown as a Civil War veteran (1890/CSSx).
1894. William E of Coopersville MI Ottawa Co, a Civil War veteran (1894/VET).
1900. Census of Coopersville MI Ottawa Co indicated: Wm E age 59; Emeline Sherman age 48, born 1852 in PA
1906. William E Sherman died, 1906, buried in Maplewood (Old Lamont) Cemetery Tallmadge Twp Ottawa Co (SA/GRCx; GAR/Cem; tombstone, DAR; possibly MI/DRx 25-1295).

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Maplewood Cemetery, Lamont, Ottawa County Michigan, Canada
Pvt William E. Sherman
Birth: Oct. 1, 1840 Ontario, Canada
Death: Sep. 17, 1906 Coopersville Ottawa County Michigan, USA
MI Death Certificate, Seeking Michigan William Sherman was born on October 1, 1840, in Ontario, Canada, son of Andrew Sherman and Hannah Nelson. He died of consumption on September 17, 1906, in Coopersville, Michigan, age 65-11-16. He was married and a retired farmer. Buried in the lot with William is his mother, Hannah Nelson Sherman. William enlisted in Co. C, 10th MI Cavalry on March 15, 1865, and was discharged October 5, 1865.
Burial: Maplewood Cemetery

Family/Spouse: Emeline. Emeline was born about 1851 in Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Charles resided in Cleveland, Ohio. Appointed to the bench as Judge of the Northern District of Ohio in 1868.

Charles married Eliza Jane WILLIAMS on 2 Feb 1841. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: William J. REESE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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6th child of Charles Sherman and Mary Hoyt. He was a General commanding the army of the United States 1869-1883.

William Tecumseh Sherman
Birth: Feb. 8, 1820
Death: Feb. 14, 1891
Civil War General, businessman, and author. General Sherman led an army of sixty-two thousand men with thirty-five thousand horses and twenty-five hundred wagons on an overland march to Savannah on a mission to punish the south for its secession from the union. He cut his army off from the union supply line allowing the troops to forage and sustain them self by feeding off the land. From Savannah, a swath of utter destruction was left by Shermans Army. The tracks of the railroad, trestles and rolling stock was destroyed. Towns, plantations and farms were burned and looted. He destroyed all the public buildings in Atlanta but heaped the most vengeance on South Carolina, the first state to secede from the Union. Columbia was completely burned to the ground. The results of this march together with Grant's victories in Virginia brought the South to the surrender table. He was born in Lancaster, Ohio as William Tecumseh Sherman into a family of eleven. His father, a lawyer and jurist died when he was nine and the children were parceled out to relatives and friends. William was sent to the family of Thomas Ewing, a next door neighbor who was a U.S. senator and a cabinet member. His excellent early education was at the Lancaster academy where his outstanding scholastic record earned him an appointment to West Point at age sixteen. After graduating sixth in his class, he was commissioned a second lieutenant. Sherman served in South Carolina then Georgia, but saw very little action in the Mexican-American war. He resigned from the Army to pursue a career in banking, then a as a lawyer, but with little success. His bank failed and he accepted the position as first president of the Louisiana Military Seminary. The institution would become Louisiana State University. The Civil War brought him back to active duty and he took up the Union cause commanding a number of major battles from leading a brigade at Bull Run, a division at Shiloh and then in charge of four divisions at Vicksburg. Everlasting fame was his during the Georgia campaign and his "March to the Sea." The post Civil War...When Grant became President, Sherman became the top general in the Army and served in this high post until his retirement. He oversaw the completion of the transcontinental railroad and orchestrated the defeat of the Plains Indian tribes. An important contribution was the establishment of the Command School at Ft. Leavenworth. He wrote his memoirs, a two volume classic and it was published in 1875. Sherman retired from the army in 1884 and lived the rest of his life in New York City. He loved the theatre and was much in demand as a colorful speaker at dinners and banquets. Sherman was courted by the Democrats to became their presidential candidate spurring him to coin the famous response, "If nominated, I will not run, if elected I will not serve". He died in New York City at age seventy-one. A brief service was held at his residence with a grand procession escorting his coffin to a special waiting train poised to convey his body to St Louis for interment in the family plot. Upon arrival at the Union Depot in the Missouri city, a caisson drawn by four black horses waited to transport his remains through downtown St. Louis to Calvary Cemetery and burial beside his wife, the former Ellen Ewing, the daughter of his foster father, and two of his children. His son, Father Thomas Sherman , a Jesuit priest, conducted a brief service. The Sherman legacy...Streets, schools, buildings and hundreds of books have been authored about the General. Some of the most enduring monuments...a statue of Sherman on his horse, walking behind an angel carrying an olive branch is located at Grand Army Plaza, corner of 5th Avenue and 59th Street in New York. It has been newly gilt from money donated by Donald Trump and was the eleven year work of Augustus Saint Gaudens. The original and well preserved Sherman House, in his hometown of Lancaster, is his birthplace as well as his famous brother Senator John Sherman

Burial: Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum St. Louis city Missouri, USA Plot: Section 17, family plot

Sherman, William T., lieutenant-general, was born at Lancaster, Fairfield county, Ohio, Feb. 8, 1820. Left an orphan at nine years of age, he was adopted by Thomas Ewing, later secretary of the interior, and attended school at Lancaster until 1836, when he was appointed a cadet at the West Point military academy. Graduating in 1840, sixth in a class of forty-two, he was made a second lieutenant and assigned to duty in Florida where he was engaged from time to time in incursions against the hostile Seminole Indians. On Nov. 30, 1841, he was promoted to first lieutenant, and until the outbreak of the Mexican war, was stationed at various posts in the South, including St. Augustine, and Forts Pierce, Morgan and Moultrie. At one time he undertook the study of law, with no thought of making it his profession, but to be prepared "for any situation that fortune or luck might offer." In 1846 he was stationed at Pittsburg, as recruiting officer, but shortly after, in consequence of repeated applications for active service, was sent to California, where, contrary to expectation, he was uneventfully engaged as acting assistant adjutant-general of the 1Oth military department under Gen. Stephen W. Kearny, and later under Col. R. B. Mason. In 1850 he returned to the Atlantic states as bearer of despatches, and was stationed at St. Louis, Mo., as commissary of subsistence with the rank of captain. In March, 1851, he received the commission of captain by brevet, to date from May 30, 1848. On Sept. 6, 1853, he resigned from the army and became manager of the branch banking-house of Lucas, Turner & Co., at San Francisco, Cal. In 1857 he returned to New York and, his firm having suspended, opened a law office in Leavenworth, Kan., with Hugh and Thomas E. Ewing, Jr. In July, 1859, he was elected superintendent of the Louisiana military academy, with a salary of $5,000 per annum, the institution opening Jan. 1, 1860, but on the seizure of the arsenal at Baton Rouge in Jan., 1861, in anticipation of the secession of the state, he tendered his resignation. Going to Washington, he endeavored in vain to impress upon the administration the gravity of the situation which he characterized as "sleeping upon a volcano," and the president's call for volunteers for three months as "an attempt to put out the flames of a burning house with a squirtgun." For two months he was president of the 5th street railway of St. Louis, Mo., and on May 14, 1861, was made colonel of the 13th regiment of regular infantry, commanding a brigade in the division of Gen. Tyler in the battle of Bull Run, July 21. On Aug. 3 he was promoted to brigadier-general of volunteers, to date from May 17, and on Oct. 7 relieved Maj.-Gen. Anderson in command of the Department of Kentucky. On Nov. 12, however, he was in turn relieved by Gen. D. C. Buell, his estimate of the number of troops required in his department, "sixty thousand men to drive the enemy out of Kentucky and 200,000 to finish the war in this section," being considered so wildly extravagant as to give rise to doubts of his sanity. It was, however, justified by later events. During the remainder of the winter he was in command of the camp of instruction at Benton barracks, near St. Louis, and when Grant moved upon Donelson, was stationed at Paducah, where he rendered effective service in forwarding supplies and reinforcements. Here, also, he organized the 5th division of the Army of the Tennessee from raw troops who had never been under fire, and with these he held the key point of Pittsburg landing and "saved the fortunes of the day" on April 6, and contributed to the glorious victory of the 7th, although severely wounded in the hand on the first day. On the second, he had three horses shot under him, but mounting a fourth he remained on the field, and it was the testimony of Gen. Grant, in recommending his promotion, that "to his individual efforts I am indebted for the success of that battle." On May 1 he was commissioned major-general of volunteers and on July 1 was put in charge of the Department of Memphis, which he at once proceeded to organize, restoring the civil authorities, causing a revival of business, and sternly repressing guerrilla warfare. In October he concerted with Gen. Grant at Columbus, Ky., the details of the ensuing campaign, in which Pemberton's force, 40,000 strong was dislodged from the line of the Tallahatchie and driven behind the Yalabusha in consequence of a combined movement by both generals from Jackson and Memphis, while 5,000 cavalry under Washburne threatened his communications in the rear. Falling back to Milliken's bend, Sherman resigned his command to Gen. McClernand, but shortly afterward suggested and led the attack on Fort Hindman with its garrison of 5,000 men by which the control of Arkansas river was gained, the key to the military possession of the state, with the loss of but 134 killed and 898 wounded, while of the enemy, 150 were killed and 4,791 taken prisoners. In the campaign of 1863 Sherman was in command of the expedition up Steele's bayou, abandoned on account of insuperable difficulties, though he dispersed troops sent to oppose the movement; and the demonstration against Haynes' bluff was also committed to him, though with some hesitation, by Gen. Grant, lest his reputation should suffer from report of another repulse. In the Vicksburg campaign of 109 days Gen. Sherman entitled himself, in the words of Gen. Grant, "to more credit than usually falls to the lot of one man to earn." The drawn battle of Chickamauga and the critical condition of Rosecrans at Chattanooga called next loudly for the troops resting at Vicksburg, and on Sept. 22 Sherman received orders to forward his divisions, with the exception of one which remained to guard the line of the Big Black. Meanwhile Gen. Grant, having been placed in command of the Division of the Mississippi, assigned the Department of the Tennessee to Sherman, who, on the receipt of telegraphic summons to "drop all work", and hurry eastward, pushed forward in advance of his men and reached Chattanooga on Nov. 15. It was proposed that he initiate the offensive, which he proceeded to do upon the arrival of his troops, Nov. 23. He pitched his tents along Missionary ridge and his sentinels were clearly visible, not a thousand yards away. The battle of Missionary ridge being won, the relief of Burnside on the Hiawassee was next to be contemplated and with weary troops who two weeks before had left camp with but two days' provisions and "stripped for the fight," ill supplied now and amid the privations of winter, Sherman turned to raise the siege of Knoxville. On Jan. 24, 1864, he returned to Memphis, and in preparation for the next campaign decided upon the "Meridian Raid." To the expedition of Gen. Banks up the Red river he next contributed 10,000 men for thirty days, but the force did not return to Vicksburg until more than two months had elapsed, too late to take part in the Atlanta campaign. On March 14 Gen. Grant was appointed lieutenant-general to command all the armies of the United States in the field, and Sherman succeeded to the Division of the Mississippi. On May 6 the movement toward Atlanta was started with the capture of the city as the desideratum, and such progress was made that on Aug. 12 the rank of major-general, U. S. A., was bestowed upon Gen. Sherman by the president, in anticipation of his success. After indefinite skirmishing for a month, following the fall of Atlanta, and during which the gallant defense of Allatoona pass was made by Gen. Corse with 1,944 men against a whole division of the enemy, the famous "march to the sea" was resolved upon, not alone as a means of supporting the troops, but, in Sherman's own words, "as a direct attack upon the rebel army at the rebel capital at Richmond, though a full thousand miles of hostile country intervened," and from Nov. 14 until Dec. 1O he was accordingly buried in the enemy's country, severed from all communication in the rear, and crossed the three rivers of Georgia, passing through her capital in his triumphal progress of 300 miles, during which his loss was but 567 men. On Dec. 25 he telegraphed to President Lincoln, "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 bales of cotton," in reply to which he received the assurance that to him alone the honor of his undertaking was due, as acquiescence only had been accorded him, and anxiety, if not fear, had been felt for his success. The surrender of Johnston was made at Durham station, N. C., on April 26, 1865, after a triumphal march of Sherman's army through the Carolinas, and on May 24, a year after it had started on its journey of 2,600 miles, the conquering host was reviewed at Washington, D. C. On June 27 Gen. Sherman was placed in command of the military division of the Mississippi which included the departments of Ohio, Missouri and Arkansas, and on July 25, 1866, he succeeded Gen. Grant as lieutenant-general of the army. On March 4, 1869, when Grant was inaugurated as president, Sherman became general of the army, and in 1871-72, on leave of absence, made a tour of Europe and the East. On Feb. 8, 1884 he was retired from active service, and on Feb. 14, 1891, expired at New York, the day following the demise of his friend and comrade in arms, Adm. David D. Porter.Source: The Union Army, vol. 8


1850 United States Federal Census
Name: William T Sherman
Age: 30 First Lt. U.S Artillary
Estimated birth year: abt 1820
Birth Place: Ohio
Gender: Male
Home in 1850(City,County,State): Jefferson, St Louis, Missouri (Jefferson Barrack

1880 United States Federal Census
Name: W. T. Sherman
Home in 1880: Washington, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia
Age: 60
Estimated birth year: abt 1820
Birthplace: Ohio
Relation to head-of-household: Self (Head)
Spouse's name: Eleanor E.
Father's birthplace: Connecticut
Mother's birthplace: Connecticut
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Occupation: Genl. U. S. Army
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male

Household Members: Name Age
W. T. Sherman 60
Eleanor E. Sherman 55
Mary E. Sherman 27
Rachel E. Sherman 18
Phileum T. 13
Alex M. Thackara 31
Eleanor Thackara 20
Mary O'Brien 22
Ida Johnson 23
James Myers 21
Daniel Hughes 36

William married Ellen Boyle EWING on 1 May 1850 in Washington D C, United States. Ellen (daughter of Thomas Sen. EWING and Maria Wills Boyle) was born on 4 Oct 1824 in Washington D C, United States; died on 28 Nov 1888 in New York City, New York, United States; was buried in St. Louis, , Missouri, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Served in US Congress 1855-1861, US Senate 1861-77, Secretary of US Treasury 1877-81, US Senate 1881-97, and became Secretary of State in 1897. No children.

John married Cecilia STEWART on 1 Sep 1848 in , Richland, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Susan Bartley and husband lived in Washington D.C.

Family/Spouse: BARTLEY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Hoyt was a banker in Des Moines, Iowa

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Frances Moulton lived in Cincinnatti, Ohio

Family/Spouse: MOULTON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]