GEORGE SHEARD - Biography

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This biography appears on page 650-651 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


GEORGE SHEARD, farmer, Sec. 25; P. O. Burlington; born in Mirfield,
Yorkshire, England, June 4, 1813; he married at Halifaxa Old Church,
England, in 1836, Martha Gill, and had two children born in England,
Brook and Percival, whom they brought with them; they came to Burlington
in 1844, located and took up 120 acres of Government land in Section 25;
he built the residence he occupies with barns, and has a very
comfortable home and good farm; they had six other children born in
Burlington, two of whom are dead- Frederick, Louisa, Abraham, Thomas,
Mary and William; Frederick and Mary are both dead; the rest are all
living, but away from home, except William.