Re: William T SHERWOOD b.1832 Onondaga C
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In reply to:
Re: William T SHERWOOD b.1832 Onondaga C
4/16/01
The mention of SHERWOOD's father came from two different and, to the best of my knowledge, unconnected sources.
THE MERWIN FAMILY IN AMERICA [Miles Merwin Assoc. 1978] at p. 347 [1133] Annie MERWIN b. 23 Jan. 1809; d. of cholera 22 July, 1832, a dau. of Theodore and Anna [LYNCH] MERWIN. She m.1, ---- PRIME and m.2 Phanten SHERWOOD of undetermined parentage, by whom she had a child: [2281] William SHERWOOD b. 4 March 1832.
A similar, but far more confused, account is given by Gracie JACKSON [b. 1889] in a 1976 interview. Gracie, a cousin of SHERWOOD and the youngest daughter of the George M. JACKSON mentioned in the letter, had a VERY strange way of recounting her information. She habitually put her self in situations that occurred to family members before she was born. Very confusing. The transcript gives SHERWOOD's father's name as "FANTON" but, all things considered, that's a rather good transcription of what one would hear on the tape. Gracie recounts that her grandfather, grandmother and father had gone back to N.Y. to collect the boy after the cholera killed both of his parents [in Gracie's words "Took them both."]
I suppose it possible that the SHERWOOD in question was a grandson of Amos SHERWOOD's who has gone unnoticed. Or perhaps he was just a randy old guy who took a young wife.
Cliff