12. | John Hamilton Sherman was born on 2 Jul 1845 in Springfield, Sangamon Co, Illinois (son of Leverett R Sherman, Sr and Margaret Ness); died on 16 Jul 1909 in Confederate House, Austin, Travis Co, Texas; was buried in State Cem Vet Section, Austin, Texas. Notes:
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)
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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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