Lyle Sherman

Norman married Mary Minerva Stephenson on 19 Feb 1908 in Wallisville, Chambers Co, Texas. Mary (daughter of Reason Green Stephenson and Martha Lurenda Wilborn) was born on 22 Sep 1889 in Double Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas; died on 9 Mar 1962 in Anahuac, Chambers Co, Texas; was buried in Anahuac Cem, Anahuac, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Dau of Reason Green Stephenson and Martha Lurinda Wilburn.

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First wife, Mary Ann White, was the dau of John White and Martha Wallis. She died in childbirth. During the Civil War, he served with Company B, Texas State Troops, commanded by Capt Thomas A. Wooten. After he came home from the war, he ben to drink to ease the pain caused by a wound he had received. John was a good man and husband, but when he drank he was so abusive to Mary Susie that she finally divorced him on 6 Mar 1889 (Case #256, Vol B, Pg 83, Chambers Co). On 29 Apr 1889 she married his cousin Leverett Lothrop Sherman.
Source: (Chambers County, Texas in the War Between the States, by Kevin Ladd, Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, 1994)

http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us/pub/user_form.asp
Basic Information:
Full Name: John Hamilton Sherman
Location:
Section:Confederate Field, Section 1
Row:A Number:14
Reason for Eligibility: Confederate Veteran
Birth Date: July 2, 1845
Died: July 16, 1909
Buried:
Biography:
SHERMAN, JOHN HAMILTON (1845~1909) John Sherman was born in 1845 in Illinois. During the Civil War he fought in Company F, 26th Cavalry, DeBray’s Brigade. The 26th fought at Galveston Island, the Red River Campaign, Mansfield, and Pleasant Hill. They surrendered under E.K. Smith, commanding the Trans-Mississippi Department, on May 26, 1865. He came to Texas in 1849 at age four and lived in Chambers County. He was a widower and suffered from rheumatism. He was admitted to the Confederate Home on July 27, 1896 where he died July 16, 1909.

John married Mary Susan Wallace on 14 Feb 1880 in Chambers Co, Texas, and was divorced on 06 Mar 1889 in Chambers Co, Texas. Mary was born on 14 Nov 1859; died on 23 Jan 1894 in Wallisville, Chambers Co, Texas; was buried in Eminence Cem, Eminence, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Dau of David Wallace and Susannah (Rebecca) Atkinson, both of Louisiana. Marriage to John Hamilton recorded Vol A, Pg 94 Chambers Co, Texas. She died at the age of 34 and is buried at Eminance Cemetery next to MARY KIRK (Mrs L.B. Sherman), her mother-in-law.

Reason married Martha Lurenda Wilborn about 1862 in Chambers Co, Texas. Martha (daughter of Charles Wilborn and Wilhelmina Elizabethe Kranz) was born on 6 Jan 1855 in Liberty Co, Texas; died on 4 Mar 1905 in Chambers Co, Texas; was buried in Anahuac Cem, Anahuac, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1859, Chambers Co, Texas; tax roll
• Census: 20 Jul 1860, Chambers Co, Texas

Notes:

In the 1864 election he won a seat on the commissioner's court.
Listed on 1867 Voters Registration List, Chambers Co. Date of registry Aug 9, 1867. States birth 1818 NY, in the state, county, precinct 17 years.

In 1967 the Anahuac Civic Club erected a memorial to him in the Anahuac Cemetery.
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Also living in the residence during 1870, the census records a Tammy Williams, age 20, from Virginia, and Jane Farmer, age 16, from Kentucky with a note beside both of them "Donst-Sol" which is perhaps what is written beside Samuel Haven Doebner's name, the sailor from Saxon living with Willis and Rebecca Sherman Barnes.

Census:
Residence 419
John L. Sherman 35 farmer 300 200 Maine
Rachel 28 Kentucky
Sarah F. 10 1850 Missouri
Richard H. 8 1852 Missouri
Ellen A 6 1854 Texas
Charles 4 1956 Texas

residence 421 3,000 700 New Hamshire farmer
L.R. Sherman 43 Ohio
Margaret 35 Illinois
Edward 17 Illinois
John 13 Missouri
Levret 13 Missouri

Leverett married Margaret Ness on 19 Apr 1842 in Illinois. Margaret was born on 29 Dec 1824 in Ohio; died on 4 Nov 1913 in Anahuac, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Casualty of the smallpox epidemic that swept through Chambers County communities in 1877.
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Charles married Wilhelmina Elizabethe Kranz on 4 Apr 1850 in Liberty Co, Texas. Wilhelmina (daughter of Gottfried Wilhelm Kranz and Johanetta Margaretha Schuster) was born on 21 Jan 1831 in Dietz, Germany; died on 20 Nov 1888 in Chambers Co, Texas; was buried in Jackson Cem, Double Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Her mother, her husband, three sons and three sisters-in-law all died in the smallpox epidemic that struck Chambers County, Texas in 1877.
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