| 4. | Hon. William Northup Sherman  (1.Elizabeth1) was born on 19 Feb 1809 in North Kingstown, Washington Co, Rhode Island; died on 02 Mar 1882 in Rutland, Rutland Co, Vermont; was buried in Evergreen Cem, Rutland, Rutland Co, Vermont. Notes:
Genealogical and family history of the state of Vermont edited by Hiram Carleton
Dr. Mead was married Oct 30 1872 to Miss Mary M., daughter of Hon William Northup and Mary M. (Bliss) Sherman. The Sherman family was one of distinction in England. Sir Henry Sherman was one of the executors of the will of Lord Stanley, Earl of Derby, under an instrument executed May 23, 1521. William Sherman purchased Knightston in the time of Henry VIII, and a monument to his memory was erected in St. Mary's Ottery in 1542. Of the same family with Nathaniel Sherman, father of William N. Sherman, were the Civil war hero, General William T. Sherman, and his brother, Hon. John T. Sherman, the distinguished senator from Ohio and afterwards secretary of state under President McKinley. From the same ancestors came Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, probably the most heroic figure of today in the national hall of legislation; Hon. William M. Evarts, the accomplished lawyer and stateman; Hon Chauncy Depew, and many other prominent in public affairs.
William Northup Sherman was born February 10, 1809, in North Kingston, Rhode Island. In 1883 he located in Woolstocket, Connecticut, and subsequently removed to Greenwich, Rhode Island. He was a man of high character and much prominence. Heuilt the Marlborough street chapel, supported it during his life, and he also organized the largest Sunday school in the state. In 1834 he married Mary M. Bliss, a highly educated lady, daughter of Ichabod and Rebecca (Holbrook) Bliss of Brimfield, Massachusetts. To them was born a daughter, Mary, who became the wife of Dr. John A. Mead, at whose home in Rutland, Vermont, they passed much of their time. It was on one of their visits that Mr. Sherman died, March 2, 1882, at the age of seventy-three years. He had long suffered from a complication of ailments incident to age, and found himself unable to return home and passed away after a severly painful illness. His widow subsequently presented to the village of Greenwich a fine town clock as a memorial of her husband and a book of his life has been published.
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William married Mary Madelia Bliss on 26 Apr 1834. Mary (daughter of Ichabod Bliss and Rebecca Holbrook) was born on 26 Oct 1814 in of, Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts; died after 1835. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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- 6. Mary Madelia Bliss Sherman was born on 29 Dec 1844 in Wickford, Washington Co, Rhode Island; died on 27 Feb 1923 in Rutland, Rutland Co, Vermont.
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Abt 1780 - Aft 1818 (~ 39 years)