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Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 567-568:
Sherman. The Sherman family has been connected with the County of Kent for about one hundred years. The first of the family concerning whom there is definite record is Lemuel Sherman, Sr., the grandfather of William and Lemuel Sherman of Thamesville. He was born in England, and settled in the County of Kent, in Ontario, near the present site of Thamesville, prior to the war of 1812. In 1811 he built a barn on his farm, which was used by the Americans as a hospital in 1813-14. This barn was built of the best pine timber and covered with pine two feet wide, which, by the storms, has worn to the thickness of a shingle in many places. A new cover was put upon the frame, and the barn now stands on the farm of Lemuel Sherman (2), a grandson of Lemuel, Sr. The frame, although ninety years old, is as sound as ever, and on the beams are carved the initials of many of the American soldiers, who camped in and around in the night before the battle in which Tecumseh fell, and during a part of the winter of 1813-14, when the barn was used as a sort of combined hospital and barracks. When Lemuel Sherman, Sr., settled in Kent, his nearest neighbour was thirteen miles distant. Here he hewed out a fine farm, now in the possession of the fourth generation of that family. The first Methodist sermon preached in that locality was delivered in the Sherman home. His wife's maiden name was Sarah Camp, and she became the mother of the following children: David, Sally, Mary Ann and Polly. For his second wife he married a Miss Reynolds, by whom he had one son, Edward.
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The Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Kent, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, p. 862-863:
William Alexander Everett (deceased). Few citizens of the County of Kent were better known or more thoroughly respected than was the late William Alexander Everett, whose death on Feb. 20, 1889, removed one of the early residents of Chatham township. His birth took place Aug. 13, 1815, in Chatham township, nineteen years after the settlement of his family in that location.
The Everett family is of Welsh extraction. The grandfather of the above, also William Alexander Everett, was born in Pennsylvania about 1740, and married Nancy Jackman, also a native of that State. In 1796 they settled on the 1st Concession, river front, in Chatham township, near Louisville, and there engaged in farming until they died, the grandfather passing away in 1821 and his widow a few years later. The children born to these worthy people were: ... (4) John, born in Pennsylvania, who came with the family to the County of Kent, married Sally Sherman, and they had five children: David, William, John, Elizabeth and Sarah, of whom William, John and Sarah (wife of Marcellus Minschel) still reside in Howard township, County of Kent...
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