Biography of William H. Sherman, Franklin Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed
Publishing Co., 1889.

William H. Sherman, a farmer and stock raiser of Franklin County, was
born in Dutchess County, N. Y., May 13, 1802, the only son of William
and Elizabeth (Stark) Sherman. The father, who was also a native of
Dutchess County, where he was reared and followed the pursuits of
farming and stock raising all his life, died when our subject was a
child. After the death of her husband Mrs. Elizabeth Sherman returned
to her native State, Pennsylvania, where, to support herself and son,
she engaged in tailoring. She died as she had lived, a Christian
woman, in 1837. William H. Sherman grew to man hood in Pennsylvania,
where he learned the carpenter's trade, and returning to his
birthplace he followed carpentering for thirteen years. In 1824 he
married Sarah Kennedy, a daughter of Thomas Kennedy, and a native of
Pennsylvania. Mrs. Sarah Sherman died in 1856, the mother of eleven
children, six of whom are now living, viz.: Henry, James, Almond,
John, David, and Mary, now the wife of Henry Kennedy, of Clark County,
Ill. Mr. Sherman subsequently married Mrs. Maria Watson, nee Walker,
who was born in Ohio, and their children are Scott, Emma (wife of
Charles Hiatt) and Orr. Mr. Sherman located in Licking County, Ohio,
in 1837, where he engaged in farming until 1850, when he removed to
California, returning to Ohio in 1852. Two years later he became the
possessor of a large farm of 500 acres in Clark County, Ill. He
removed to his present farm in Franklin County, Ark., in 1879, where
he is extensively engaged in stock raising and the production of hay.
The farm consists of 803 acres, and is one of the finest in the
county. Mr. Sherman creditably filled the office of county supervisor
for several years, and also served as commissioner of roads. He is a
member of the F. & A. M., and in political faith is a Democrat. Mrs.
Sherman is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.