The History of Wakeman Township, Pages 161 through 170
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By 1st wife,
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Hannah Abigail, |
born May 18, 1833, died in Wakeman, Apr. 2, 1875. |
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George Washington, |
born June 21, 1835. He was killed in the army, Sept. 21, 1864. |
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Nancy Adaline, |
born March 21, 1838. She married Almon Bela Coe, of Wakeman, on Aug. 13, 1868, and died Oct. 6, 1900. |
By 2nd wife,
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William Henry, |
born April 14, 1845, married Emarette Palmatier, of Wakeman, Sept. 24, 1867, and died at Shiloh, Ohio, Aug. 25, 1909. She was a daughter of William Palmatier, and was born in Toronto, Canada, Nov. 3, 1848, and died Feb. 12, 1913. Their children are Charles Russell, of Wakeman, and Harriet Healy, of Belle Center, Ohio. |
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Sanford, |
born Oct. 28, 1846, died 1849. |
By 3rd wife,
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Mary Emoret, |
born Jan. 10, 1848, died in Wakeman, Feb. 11, 1906, unmarried. |
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Amos Theodore, |
born May 30, 1850, lived at Portland, Oregon. He married Bertha LeRoy, Oct. 15, 1886. |
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Elbert Eugene, |
born Aug. 26, 1853, married Rosa Sheffield, of Norwalk, May 10, 1876, and died Nov. 18, 1885. |
SANGER, Washington – a son of Richard, whose eldest daughter married Cyrus Butler, of Birmingham (from whom the Butler Road received its name.) He was born in Oneida county, N.Y., Oct. 7, 1821. The father died and the eldest son came to Ohio, followed by the rest of the family in 1826 or 27. At the age of eleven years, Washington Sanger went to live with John Carter, south of Terryville. In 1840, he purchased 80 acres of wild land in Wakeman and kept Bachelor’s Hall part of the time until he married Gitty Jane Stryker, Oct. 13, 1850. He lived on a farm near Mr. Carter’s until 1853 when he moved to the Wakeman farm, on Lot 71, where his son, Watson, lived later. In 1859, he moved to Ashland county, Ohio, and went into mercantile business. In 1861, he moved to Oberlin and again came to the Wakeman farm, where he died April 6, 1906.
Gitty Jane Stryker was born in Barrington, Yates county, N.Y., Oct. 12, 1829, and came to Ohio with her parents in 1845, who settled in Berlin, where the father died and the mother and family moved to Birmingham. She died in Wakeman May 3, 1883. The children were: Watson T., born Aug. 24, 1851, married, Dec. 12, 1871, Ruthelia Cole, and died on the homestead farm, Aug. 13, 1922. Etta, born Jan. 9, 1857, died 1870.
SCOTT, Lewis R. – born at Oxford, Conn., Aug. 22, 1813, married Eliza Young, Jan. 13, 1834, and came to Ohio in 1835 or 36, and lived in Clarksfield until 1839, when he moved to Wakeman and lived for two years, lived in Florence, where he operated the Wheeler Tavern, at "Tater Hill", then in Berlin, and at last to Wakeman again. He died Jan. 19, 1892. His wife was born in Sligo, Ireland, March 17, 1814, and came to the United States when nine months old, and lived with her parents at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., until her marriage. She died March 2, 1886. They had children:
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Cynthia J., |
born Nov. 7, 1834, married Albert W. Judson, of Florence, and died July 25, 1853, in her nineteenth year. |
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Lyman Stewart, |
born Sept. 1, 1837, married Mary Ann Trumbull, daughter of Dr. Moses Trumbull, of Florence and Wakeman, Aug. 8, 1858. He lived on a farm in Florence, near the Trumbull hill, but removed to Wakeman village, and died Jan. 31, 1889. He had sons, Lewis R. and Moses T. |
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Alexander D., |
born April 22, 1844, married Mina Humphrey, of Townsend, lived in Wakeman, Clarksfield and Cleveland, where he died in 1910. He had a son, Dudley, of Cleveland. |
SHAFER, Elias, a son of Lambert Shafer, Jr., of Florence, and grandson of Lambert, Sr., a soldier of the revolution, married Ann Maria, daughter of William Bentley, of Wakeman, Dec. 31, 1829. In 1836, he bought land in Lot 31 in Wakeman, but sold it to James Riley. He removed to Indiana.
SHELDON, Elisha - bought 60 acres of Lot 42 in Wakeman in 1826. He was a resident here in 1829. He sold his land to Abraham Kennedy in 1830.
SHELTON, Gershom - a son of Gershom, Sr., (b. 1771), who was a son of Daniel, Jr., (b. 1730), son of Daniel Sr., of Huntington, Conn., (b. 1690). Gershom, Sr., married Martha Beardsley and lived at Bridgeport, Conn., where he was a wealthy manufacturer until 1820, when, by signing notes for others, he lost his property. He came to Vermillion, Ohio, and died in 1848. Gershom, Jr., was born "13th of 2nd mo 1796", as the record states, and the form of record indicates that he was probably of Quaker parentage. His wife was Hepzibah Smith, daughter of David Smith, later of Wakeman, and she was born in October 1797.
Mr. Shelton came to Wakeman with his wife and two children in 1826. He purchased of Bronson, Jesup and Wakeman the whole of Lot 37 and half of Lot 47, and built a house south of Marcus French’s and established a road back to his house and it went by the name of "Shelton’s Lane." This road was abandoned about 1861. He bought other tracts also. He died June 23, 1840. The widow married William Squires, of Milan, and went there to live, taking her two younger children. She found life in Milan uncongenial and came back to Wakeman, and died Feb. 4, 1871.
The children were:
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Charles Riley, |
born in Oxford, Conn., Jan. 3, 1820, was left in charge of the Wakeman farm when his mother remarried and went to Milan. In 1851, he married Eunice O., daughter of Abel Whitney, of Wakeman. He became the owner of considerable land in Wakeman, and lived at the south end of the village, and died April 18, 1896, without issue. He and his wife brought up Elbert Barnes and Ollie Whitney, and they live on the Shelton homestead. |
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Mary Ann, |
born March 18, 1826, married Elias Green, of Milan, and died in Clarksfield, May 18, 1897. |
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Henry S., |
born Nov. 10, 1832. When thirteen years old he sowed thirteen acres of wheat, unassisted. With the proceeds he purchased a yoke of oxen and an old harrow and farmed his mother’s land. When he was twenty one years of age, he had saved up $1600, a small fortune for those days. He was married to Antoinette Vincent, daughter of Hoxsie Vincent, of Clarksfield, July 3, 1860. He owned a part of his mother’s farm and built a house there, on the road to Clarksfield, where his son, Myron, lives. The wife died April 29, 1890, and he married Mary Ann Trumbull, widow of Lyman Scott, Oct. 10, 1899, and who died in 1913. He made his home in the village until his wife died, then made his home with his daughter and died March 18, 1916. His children were: |
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Charles H., |
born Sept. 9, 1862, married Luella Burr, and died at his home south of the village. |
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Mary E., |
born Oct. 7, 1864, married Charles Todd, and they live in Wakeman village. |
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Hattie B., |
born Nov. 9, 1866, married George Shelton, of Flint, Mich. |
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George H., |
born March 20, 1869, married Belle Pierce, daughter of Stanley, and died Nov. 1921. |
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Myron A., |
born Jan. 23, 1872, lives on the old farm. |
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Harry S., |
born Nov. 19, 1878, lives in Denver. |
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Henriette Elizabeth, |
born April 30, 1818, married Joseph, son of Isaac Haskins, of Wakeman, in 1838, and died June 16, 1899. (Page 122 of this history gives the name of James B., instead of Joseph, as son of Isaac Haskins, who married Henriette Shelton.) |
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SHERMAN GENEALOGY
(By Thomas Townsend Sherman.)
The name of Sherman was borne in many parts of England more than six hundred years ago. It was written in different ways, including Shearman, Shereman, Shurman and Sharman. It was of English origin and came from the trade or occupation of wool worker or maker of woolen cloth. The shearer clipped the sheep and the shearman or sherman made the wool into cloth and was also known as a clothier or woolen manufacturer. The Shermans of Essex, many of whom were engaged in this occupation, or trade, are frequently described in wills and records, as clothiers. Sometimes one of them is called a sherman, as "Henry Sherman, sherman." The family under consideration is the one early of Yaxley, in Suffolk, and later of Dedham, in Essex. The Sherman lineage under consideration has been directly traced to Thomas Sherman, of Diss, Norfolk and Yaxley, less than a month after the discovery of America by Columbus; he made his will in 1492. He married Agnes --, and died in 1493. Children: John and Agnes.
John2, Sherman (Thomas1,) of Yaxley, Suffolk, married Agnes, daughter of Thomas Fuller.
Thomas3, Sherman, (John2, Thomas1,) of Yaxley, Suffolk, was under 16 years of age, Aug. 10 1504, according to his father’s will of that date, probably born about 1490, married Jane Waller, daughter of John Waller, of Wortham, Suffolk, probably about 1512. He died 1551.
Visitation of Suffolk, 1561, gives pedigree of Waller, of Wortham. This states that Thomas Waller, of Parham, Suffolk, married Margaret, daughter of Hotofte, of Colombyn Hall, Suffolk, and had John Waller, son and heir, who married Margaret Thorolde, daughter of John, of Thornham, Suffolk. Their daughter, Jane, married Thomas3, Sherman, of Yaxley.
Henry4, Sherman (Thomas3, John2, Thomas1), the elder, of Colchester, formerly of Dedham, Essex, shearman, born about 1520, married 1st, Agnes (probably Butter). Thomas Butter, of Dedham, in will gives "to Harry Sherman’s wiffe a silver pott", and appoints Henry Sherman executor.
Henry4, Sherman was serving his apprenticeship when his father, Thomas, made his will in 1551, as he gives Henry a legacy to be paid to him "when he cometh out of his prentyshode." (Apprenticeship). Henry’s name appears frequently. At the first court of Queen Elizabeth (1559) Henry4, Sherman and others took the chief pledges with homage or acknowledgement to the Lord of the Manor of tenure under him.
In each year from 1561 to 1564 inclusive, and in later years, he was sworn of homage, and on Sept. 30, 1567, he took surrender of a cottage and one rod of Copyhold land called the "Hykell". He is there called Henry Sherman Senior. Although Henry Sherman was serving his apprenticeship when his father’s will was made, he was considerably over 21 years of age. He married and settled in Dedham, and there learned and afterward pursued, the trade of sherman or clothier or woolen cloth manufacturer.
His will which was proved July 25, 1590 x x x gave to the poor of Dedham L20 to be continued stock, &c. To Henry, his son, he left him his shearman’s craft "to him and his heirs forever."
Henry5, Sherman (Henry4, Thomas3, John2, Thomas1), a clothier in Dedham, married Susan Hills, and died in 1610. Children: Henry, Samuel, Susan, Edmund, Nathaniel, John, Elizabeth, Ezekiel, Mary, Daniel. He married Joan Mackin. He went to New England, was at Wethersfield 1635, later in New Haven, where he died 1641. He had children: Edmund, Ann, Joan, Hester, Richard, Bezaleel, Rev. John and Hon. Samuel.
Hester Sherman married Andrew Ward, and the Burrs, of Florence and Wakeman, are among her descendants.
Hon. Samuel Sherman, born in England in 1618, came to Boston in 1634, and went with his father to Wethersfield, Stamford, and finally to Stratford.
His son, Deacon John, went to Woodbury, Conn. John, son of Deacon John, had a son, Judge Daniel, who had a son, Judge Taylor Sherman, who had a son, Judge Charles Robert Sherman, of Mansfield, Ohio, and he had the distinguished sons, General William Tecumseh Sherman, and Senator John Sherman.
Daniel Sherman purchased a Bible in 1753, and it has been handed down to the eldest son in each generation, and was in possession of his grandson, Peter Sherman, of Wakeman, and was kept by Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes, whose nephew, John Sherman, was the owner, but he was in the west, so Mrs. Barnes kept it for him. The Bible contains the family records.
The most illustrious of the Sherman family was Hon. Roger Sherman, born in 1721. His line is William9 (1692-1741), Joseph8 1650-1731), Capt. John7 1612-1691), John6(1585-1616), Henry5 (d. 1610), Henry4 (d. 1590), Thomas3 (d. 1551), John2 (d. 1504), Thomas1(d. 1493).
Roger Sherman was born in Newton, Mass., April 19, 1721. His father died when he was nineteen years of age, and the support of his mother and a large family fell upon his shoulders. He became a shoemaker, but his talent in mathematics occasioned his appointment as county surveyor in 1645. He studied law and was admitted to the bar where he soon rose to distinction. He became a judge, and was a man of great distinction in the state of Connecticut, he having made his home in New Haven. He was a firm supporter of American rights and was chosen a delegate to the first general Congress of 1774, and continued to occupy a seat in that body until his death, in 1793, a space of nineteen years. The estimation in which he was held by his fellow members may be inferred from the selection of him as the associate of Adams, Franklin, Jefferson and Livingston, appointed to prepare the Declaration of Independence. In 1787, he was a member of the convention which formed the present Constitution of the U. S. and its adoption in Connecticut was owing in a great measure to his influence.
Thomas Jefferson said of him: "That is Mr. Sherman, of Connecticut, a man who never said a foolish thing in his life."
Two of Roger Sherman’s grandsons, Hon. William Maxwell Evarts, and the Hon. George Frisbie Hoar, became noted in recent years.
The Hon. Samuel Sherman (1618-1700), who came to New England between 1632 and 1636, was son of Edmund, son of Edmund, son of Henry, son of Thomas, son of John, son of Thomas1. From two of Hon. Samuel’s sons, the Sherman families of Wakeman are descended.
Justin and Philo Sherman, came from Lewis, Jotham, Samuel, Daniel, Samuel, Hon. Samuel.
Senea Sherman, the first wife of Justin came through John, Samuel, Dea. Samuel, Dea. John, Hon. Samuel.
Peter Sherman was a first cousin of Charles Sherman, the father of Gen. Wm. and Senator John Sherman.
The Bristols, of Wakeman, also came through the Sherman line. Samuel Bristol married Eunice Sherman, dau. of Soloman, son of David, son of Dea. John, son of Hon. Samuel.
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(Hon. Roger Sherman. To no other man came the unique opportunity and good fortune to set his hand to all four of the great States papers, viz., The Address to the King; The Articles of Confederation; The Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States.)
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SHERMAN, Justin, son of Lewis, was born at Newtown, Conn., July 20, 1785. He was married, Aug. 10, 1806, to Senea Sherman. He made his home at Woodbury. He with his wife and family of six children, together with his brother, Philo, and his family, left New Britain, Conn., for Wakeman, on Aug. 22, 1822, with a four horse team and reached Wakeman on Sept. 14th, making a quick trip. Justin had previously purchased of Burton Canfield, 70 acres, the south part of Lot 13 (where Augustin Canfield had made his beginning); 50 acres of the south part of Lot 33; the whole of Lot 23 and 37 acres of Lot 5. This made a total of 220 acres of his land holdings. He moved into the log house which Mr. Canfield had built. The next spring he set out some fruit trees. In August 1824, his wife gave birth to a child, and both mother and child died, the mother being 37 years of age. On Sept. 4, 1825, Mr. Sherman was married to Betsy, widow of John Reding, of Ridgeville, Lorain Co., Ohio. She was Betsy Barnum and was born in Vergennes, Vt., and married Mr. Reding in 1807 or 8, and moved to Ridgeville in 1810 or 11, after the births of their first child. Their children were Loyal, born May 21, 1810 (see his history on page 157). Sarah, born in 1816, married Nathan Downs, (page 107). Eliza, born May 4, 1819, married Eliphalet Barnum Peck, of Florence, and died March 1, 1889. She died Feb. 24, 1858, at the age of 68. Mr. Sherman married, 3rd, Mrs. Betsy Johnson, of Fitchville, Dec. 9, 1858. She was the mother of Mrs. J. M. Van Wagner, of Wakeman. Mr. Sherman died Aug. 10, 1865.
Justin Sherman was active in the life of the community, and dealt in real estate quite extensively. In 1824, he built a sawmill on Chapelle Creek, raising the frame on May 9, 1827. He was the first postmaster in the township, having been appointed Jan. 1, 1833. In 1827, he built a good frame house, the first in the township. He also built and operated the first store in the township, in 1839, the building, with additions and improvements, was later used as a residence by Nehemiah Welch. He built a sawmill on Brandy Creek in 1842. This must have been to replace an older one, for the records show that in 1839 he bought of L.T. Farrand, one half of the mill property on Brandy Creek, and in 1842, bought the other half interest.
Mr. Sherman had children:
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Lewis, |
married his cousin, Sabra Sherman, Jan. 8, 1829. He bought 3-1/4 acres of land of Dr. Clark, east of the Sherman corners, and probably built a house there. On April 2, 1832, while at work in the evening around a burning log heap, a stub of a tree, which had been weakened by fire at its roots, fell upon him and knocked him into the fire. He was killed and burned almost beyond recognition. He left no issue. Sabra was a daughter of Philo Sherman and her further history appears with that of her father. Lewis was 24 years of age at his death. |
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Nathan G., |
was an assistant at the Norwalk Academy in 1829. In 1832 he went to Vermillion and became a merchant, and with Ebenezer Warner, formerly of Wakeman, laid out part of the town. In 1835, he removed to Florence, and, with his father, carried on a store; later the father retired and Bennet Pierce, of Wakeman, became his partner. He was active in promoting the organization and building of the Vermillion & Ashland Railroad. The failure of the enterprise caused him to lose what money he had invested. (See page 31). In 1855, he went on to a farm in Berlin township, the Gorman farm, just east of Berlinville. In 1865, he removed to Norwalk and lived until his death, Nov. 8, 1896. He was married, June 15, 1843, to Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Otis, of Berlin. She died March 11, 1881. He subsequently married Miss Hattie Phillips, of Berlin. His children, by first wife, were: Emma Medora, born Sept. 22, 1846, died April 30, 1873. Joseph Otis, born Aug. 19, 1848, died April 6, 1877. Walter Justin, born Oct. 16, 1854, became a well known civil engineer, in Toledo. Mary Nancy, born May 15, 1859, married Dec. 30, 1886, Burchard Hayes, son of Pres. R. B. Hayes. Nathan G. Sherman kept a diary in which he noted: "Started from South Britain, Ct., Aug. 22, 1822 – arrived in Wakeman, Sept. 14, 1822." "Fruit trees set out April 15, 1823." "Barn raised May 24, 1833." "Sawmill raised on Chapelle Creek 1824." "Cider mill raised Sept.11, 1824." "House raised May 9, 1827." "Store raised May 11, 1839." "Saw Mill raised on Brandy Creek Sept.11, 1842." |
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Cyrus J., |
married Mary E. Prosser and lived at Florence until his death by consumption April 22, 1843. Had a daughter, Mary, who married George Jenney, and is deceased. |
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Charles S., |
was married, Feb. 26, 1834, to Hannah Arnet, daughter of James Arnet, of Fitchville, and a sister of the wife of Charles C. Parson, of Wakeman. He died in Wakeman June 25, 1844. The wife, who was born in 1817, died in Fitchville Feb. 11, 1888. Their children were: Lewis J., born 1836, lived in New London. Helen R., born in 1839, married Emery Benson, and died in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1913. James Leroy, born in 1840; Charles Nathan, born in 1842, was killed in Missouri in 1864, in the civil war; Sarah, born in 1844, a babe when her father died. |
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Walter R. , |
was a graduate of the Cincinnati Medical College. He was married to Almira T. Carnahan, Dec. 6, 1843. He lived at Mt. Pleasant, Ind., and died there Dec. 22, 1860. His children were Alice Mary, born in 1844, died in 1861; Adrian Cyrus, born in 1846, died in 18---; Rev. Warren Carnahan and Dr. Walter Nathan, twins, born in 1855. |
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Mary, |
died of consumption, unmarried. |
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Otis, |
who married and died in early manhood. |
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Dora, |
who died of consumption in 1873. |
By the second marriage, the children were:
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Harriet L., |
married Gideon Waugh, Jr., of Camden, in 1844, or 45. They lived in Kansas, but she removed to Stockton, California, after the death of her husband in 1884. They had children: Sarah, Alida and Harriet. |
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George B. |
married Sarah Buckman, of Florence, in 1850, and made his home on a farm south of Wakeman, at the top of the hill on the south side of Brandy Creek, and died there, Jan. 9, 1892. His wife was born Jan. 29, 1830, and died Feb. 27, 1915. Their children were: Georgie F., born Nov. 19, 1851, married R. Z. Owen and lived in Wakeman. Alma B., born April 23, 1855, married -- Bates and lived in Iowa. Hattie E., born Oct. 30, 1857, married William Ellis, son of Freeman Ellis, once of Wakeman, and lives in Wakeman. Justin W., born March 12, 1864, married Nellie Whitehead, of Hartland, and lived on his father’s farm, but now lives in Elyria. |
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John G., |
married Julia Beecher, of Florence, in 1851, and had a daughter, Florence, born Feb. 2, 1852, who married George Canfield, of Wakeman, and lived in Cleveland. The wife, Julia, died Sept. 24, 1857. Mr. Sherman married, 2nd, Elizabeth Miller, of New London, in 1858, and had children: John Miller, born July 29, 1860, lived in Fremont, O., until his death. Julia Elizabeth, born Feb. 9, 1862, married W. W. Whiton, and lives in Wakeman. Mary Bassett, born Aug. 10, 1865, died Jan. 2, 1889, unmarried. |
According to the record, there died in Wakeman on Jan. 3, 1841, Samuel Sherman, aged 39. He was not of the family of Justin or Peter.
SHERMAN, Philo – a brother of Justin, came with him to Wakeman in 1822. He was born June 16, 1787. His wife was Phebe Masters. He settled on a farm a half mile south of Justin’s, next to Amos Clark’s, the Peter Loretz farm. In 1827, he bought about 50 acres of Lot 25 and sold Amos Clark 27 acres of it the next year and in 1830 bought of Mr. Clark 46 acres of Lot 24. In 1854, he sold his farm to Jane Webb. His wife died about 1866 and he died in Berlin Heights April 20, 1875.
His children were:
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Sabra, |
born July 24, 1809. She married her cousin, Lewis Sherman, who was killed, as before narrated. In December 1835, she was married to Titus Daniels, and lived in Berlin until her death, Aug. 17, 1880. She had children, (all Daniels), Philo, Linus, Titus B. and Frank. |
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James L., |
born March 2, 1812, married Mrs. Harriet Humphrey, of Wellington, and died at Keota, Iowa, Aug. 23, 1884. He once owned the Carl Green and Delamater farms in Lot 36, west of the center. |
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Isaac G., |
born Nov. 11, 1815, married Currence Masters. (A niece thinks that her name was Sherman, and was a first or second cousin). He used to live in the Bryant house in Wakeman. In 1840, he bought land in Lot 66, perhaps east of the Cyrus Strong farm. He had a son, Wilber. He died at Glidden, Iowa, May 2, 1893. |
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Currence, |
born April 14, 1817, married Leonard Batterson, Oct. 7, 1835. They lived in Wakeman, where two children, J. L. and Delia, were born, and in Florence, where another, Fay, was born. They also lived in Brighton, O., and went from there to Iowa, where she died at Keota, March 13, 1908. |
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Justin, |
born Jan. 9, 1820, married Almira Youngs, in 1849, and died Feb. 8, 1901. |
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Sylvester, |
born Jan. 8, 1823, married a lady from No. Carolina, Irene Daniels. |
SHERMAN, Peter, a son of Daniel and Betsy (Mitchell) Sherman, was born in Woodbury, Conn., Sept. 11, 1793. He was married March 12, 1824, to Samantha Mallory. She was the daughter of John G. and Deborah (Warner) Mallory, and a grand-daughter of John Mallory.
Mr. Sherman first came to Wakeman in 1822, on foot, to find some trace of his brother who had fallen from a boat in the Ohio river. He had evidently been drowned, as Peter could find no trace of him. Chester Manvel came with Mr. Sherman. They did not come to Wakeman with the idea of locating here. (See page 136.)
Mr. Sherman came to Wakeman again in 1828 with his wife and one child. He settled on a fifty acre farm east of the center of the township, on Lot 77. His brother, John, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, bought this land in 1828 and gave Peter a deed of it in 1834. In 1848, the executors of John Sherman gave Peter a deed of the 63 acres to the east of this. In 1849 Peter gave his son, Lampson, a deed of the 50 acres tract. Peter’s home was on the 63 acres tract. Here Mr. Sherman died June 7, 1860, and Mrs. Sherman on Feb. 22, 1878. Mr. Sherman’s mother died here March 1, 1853.
Mr. Sherman’s children were:
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Lampson, |
born in Woodbury, March 18, 1826, married Jan. 1, 1852, Fanny Phedima, daughter of Sheldon Smith, of Wakeman. He lived west of his father’s home until about 1863, when he removed to Berlin Township, and to East Norwalk about 1880, and died Aug. 19, 1904. The wife died Jan. 27, 1908. They had children: Clara, born Oct. 1, 1853, lived in Norwalk, unmarried. John, born Sept. 12, 1857, lives in Spokane, Washington. Rose, born Feb. 5, 1861, married Charles Glaser and lives in San Diego, Cal. George, born April 12, 1869, lived in Berlinville, O. |
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Elizabeth, |
born in Wakeman, Oct. 12, 1831, married Aug. 12, 1853, George Barnes, son of Sheldon, of Wakeman. She died at her home in Wakeman Village, Nov. 24, 1920. |
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John and Clara, |
who both died in infancy. |
SHIEL, James - born in County Galway, Ireland, July 25, 1813, married Honora Ford, (sister of Michael Ford and of Mrs. Donahue, of Wakeman) Feb. 13, 1838.
On account of the famine in Ireland, they emigrated to America in 1848, and came to Wakeman in 1854. They settled on the east town line one Lot 93. He died Aug. 15, 1882, and the wife died July 15, 1890, at the age of 77.
Their children were:
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Michael, |
died in infancy. |
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Mary Elizabeth, |
born March 4, 1840, married James P. Moroney in 1865 and died Oct. 21, 1897. |
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John, |
died in infancy. |
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Anna Maria, |
married in 1866, Michael C. Kerby, and died Nov. 14, 1889. |
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Bridget, |
died in infancy. |
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Catherine Frances, |
married Oct. 25, 1872, Lewis P. Gladieux and died March 7, 1916. |
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Honora, |
died in infancy. |
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Honora Agnes, |
died in 1871. |
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Margaret Cecilia, |
born April 1, 1855, married William Ryan, Jan. 14, 1890, and they lived on the home farm. |
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Transcribed by Lowell Dunlap