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Mary Ann
Sherman
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Information from Nancy Orr Erb, Orr Family History with related families, RootsWeb WorldConnect Project.
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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Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Kent, Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 184-186:
William Call, a retired farmer of Morpeth, Howard township, County of Kent, was born in 1833, in his present home, a son of William and Mary (Williams) Call, one of Howard's old pioneer families. The father was born in the state of Pennsylvania, and the mother on the banks of the river Thames, in Canada.
The chosen family name was William, and the grandfather, William Call, was born in Ireland, as was also his wife, Elsie Hoe. Prior to the Revolutionary War of the States, they emigrated to the United States, and located near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the Allegheny river. About the time of the Revolution, they removed to Canada and lived for a time at Chatham, and then moved over on the River Thames, where they were living when the War of 1812 occurred. In that struggle his sons participated, and William (2) and his brother Samuel were both wounded in that war. William Call was drowned in the River Thames soon after the close of the war, and left a large family of children: ... (2) Samuel, who married Mary A. Shernon, and left three children, Sarah, William S. and Lemuel, died on his farm near Morpeth...
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