Viets, Henry Sheldon 1839-1916

VIETS, LITTLE

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Date: 4/21/2010 at 11:24:14

Grinnell Herald (Grinnell, Iowa) Dec. 12, 1916

HENRY SHELDON VIETS

Henry Sheldon Viets died on Dec. 7, 1916.

The Viets family emigrated from Europe to this country a few years before 1700 and in 1710 Dr. John Viets settled in Simsbury, Conn. He was the ancestor of the Viets families in America.

Mr. Henry Sheldon Viets was born at Huntington, O., Feb. 4, 1839. Later his father removed to Oberlin, O., for the education of his children. It was there that Henry attended college.

In 1860 Mr. Viets went to California by way of Panama. He taught school for a year at Stockton, Cal. In early Civil war times Mr. Viets returned to Oberlin and on Sept 1, 1864, was enrolled in Company C, One Hundred Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry. Sept. 23 he was made sergeant of his company. He was discharged from the army June 14, 1865.

Dec. 27, 1865, Mr. Viets was married at Kewanee, Ill., to Miss Louise Little. They resided a year in Oberlin and came to Grinnell, Ia. in the spring of 1867. Here he spent the remainder of his life with the exception of a few years of pioneer life in South Dakota. Mr. Viets leaves a family of a wife, a son Henry L. and a daughter, Sara E.

A sister, Mrs. Sara V. Clarke came from Ashland Wis. to attend the funeral. She and another sister, Mrs. (He??) Fairchild of Brooklyn, N.Y. are the only remaining members of the father's family. Two grandchildren, Louise and Henry, known in the family as Henry (???) represent the next generation.

Funeral services were conducted on Saturday afternoon from the Viets home on Broad street, by Rev. E.W. Cross. The pallbearers were H.G. Lyman, Paul Meyers, Phillip Kelleher, Will Sanders, Charles Sanders and W.H. Wheelock.

NOTE: The original copy was dark and blotchy..very difficult to read.