Wherry, Joseph P.

WHERRY, HENDERSON, SANKEY, MCKINNIE

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 11/27/2012 at 09:21:40

Wherry, Joseph P. - Section 10, P. O. Victor. Was born November 5, 1843, in Guernsey county, Ohio, where he was raised a farmer boy, educated and taught school when twenty. He came to this county with his father in the spring of 1865, and received a deed from his father for his present property at that time. He married, March 23, 1865, Martha Ann Henderson, who bore him Sarah Ellen (born July 11, 1866; died April 19, [1869*]) and an unnamed (born September 1, 1868; deceased). She was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, February 10, 1842, and died July 29, 1870. He re-married, March 5, 1864**, choosing for his second wife, Mrs. Eliza Ann Sankey. She was the daughter of Nathan and Lillie Ann McKinnie, of Iowa county, was born in Guernsey, Ohio, August 23, 1848; came to this State when five years old, married December 25, 1866 to Robert J. Sankey, who was born July 28, 1840, and died September 16, 1867. She has one child by her first husband, Lillie R. (born October 6, 1867). The children of Mr. Wherry by his present wife are: Walter Wilson and Willie Wilkins, twins, (born January 21, 1875; died Willis, July 27, and Walter, July 29, 1875), Ada Estella (born December 1, 1876) and Joseph McKinnie (born January 28, 1878). Mr. Wherry owns 120 acres of good farming land, in excellent condition, well stocked and unembarrassed.

* Typographic error in County history fixed from information in John Hall Wherry's family History & Genealogy.

** 1874, per JHW's family History & Genealogy.

p. 763, "The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa"
Published by Des Moines, Union Historical Co.,
Birdsdall, Williams & Co. 1880