Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Sherman, William 1928
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Wednesday, May 23, 1928

A message from the Isle of Pines, which is situated off the coast of Cuba, 
received in Muir the past week gave news of the death of William Sherman, a 
former Muir resident, April 8, following several months’ illness which began 
with a stroke early in the winter and a second one coming about two months 
before he died.

He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dell Sherman, who came from Herkimer county, 
N.Y., when the village was in infancy, and William Sherman was born in Muir 56 
years ago.  His father was a blacksmith and the son was taken as an apprentice 
into the blacksmith shop of his father when a lad of fifteen.  He followed 
this trade until he became interested in the Isle of Pines and with his wife 
and daughter Reta and a party from Lyons went south about 20 years ago and 
invested in property.  He improved his property by setting out bananas and 
grape fruit, but as his health began to fail he longed for the haunts of his 
childhood and had planned to dispose of his interests and return to Michigan 
when he was stricken with the illness which proved fatal.  He visited Michigan 
three times during his residence in the Isle of Pines.

When his daughter became of the age that she should enter high school Mrs. 
Sherman and Rita came back to Michigan and the latter is now one of the 
teachers in the Fowlerville school.  They and two sisters, Mrs. Dwight Scott 
and Mrs. Herbert Dennis of Muir, survive him.



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