Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Sherwood, William F. 1929
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The Payette Independent 8-1-1929
The Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, August 1, 1929
 
W. F. SHERWOOD CALLED BY DEATH
 
PIONEER BUSINESS MAN AND BRICK MANUFACTURER SUCCUMBED TO MAJOR OPERATION AT 
ONTARIO HOSPITAL
 
Although he made a brave fight, W. F. Sherwood, mention of whose serious 
illness was made in the Independent last week, was compelled to yield to the 
grim reaper about 10:30 o'clock Saturday night.  A second operation had failed 
to relieve his condition and he gradually sank until death relieved him of his 
suffering.  
 
William F. Sherwood was born at West Concord, Minnesota, August 11, 1869, and 
was 59 years, 11 months and 16 days old at the time of his death.  He was a 
son of Ambrose and Margaret Post Sherwood.
 
He came to Boise, Idaho, in 1890 and later came to Payette Valley with C. Q. 
Haines to learn the brick business. He took a homestead on the Payette Bench 
and built the first cabin erected there.  In 1903 he engaged in the brick 
business in Payette and continued the business until his death.  At first it 
was a struggle to get the business established on a the firm basis, but he had 
persevered and today the demands for Payette brick come from all parts of the 
northwest.  It seems hard that just as he was able to enjoy the fruits of his 
labors that he should be so suddenly taken.  
 
Mr. Sherwood was a charter member of Payette Lodge No. 22, I. O. O. F., a 
member of Washoe Lodge No. 28, A.F.& A.M., Weiser Knights Templar, the Boise 
Shrine and the Modern Woodmen.  He also served on the city council for six 
years and on the school board for eight years.
 
He leaves a wife and four sons and one daughter to mourn his death.  The wife 
and three sons, Clarence, Kenneth and Cecil, and the daughter, Inez were with 
him at the time of his death.  One son, Clark, was in Florida and did not 
reach home until after the funeral.  
 
In addition he leaves a community of warm personal friends.  Will Sherwood was 
the kind of man who made friends.  Generous to a fault, he was always ready to 
help others, and no one needing assistance called on him in vain.  He was 
honest and conscientious in the management of his business and of that happy 
and cheerful turn of mind which drew all men to him.
 
Funeral services were held at the Landon Undertaking Parlors Tuesday afternoon 
at 2 o'clock.  The services were in charge of D. T. Sleep, reader for the 
Christian Science church, and Mrs. Sleep sang.  The Masonic lodge took charge 
after the church services and had charge of the service at the cemetery.  The 
pall bearers were members of the Masonic lodge and the Knights Templar and Odd 
Fellows orders furnished honorary pall bearers who acted as a guard of honor.  
Interment took place at Riverside cemetery.

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