Mrs. Theresa Sherod 1850-1942

SHEROD, WOLF, ARNOLD, IRVINE, WILLIAMS, CAMPBELL, BARKER, MURPHY

Posted By: Martin Weaver (email)
Date: 7/13/2006 at 15:30:56

Mrs. Theresa Sherod, 92, Dies Near Place of Birth
Mt. Zion Woman for Several Years Was Iowa’s Last Surviving Granddaughter of Revolutionary War Soldier

Mrs. Theresa M. Sherod, who for the past several years was the only granddaughter of a Revolutionary soldier in Iowa, died at her home near Mt. Zion Saturday afternoon at the age of 92 years.

She was born in a log house about a mile and a half east of the Mt. Zion Presbyterian church in 1850 and throughout her long life had never lived outside a five-mile radius of the place where she was born. Although a resident of Van Buren county 92 years, Mrs. Sherod was not the oldest resident of the county nor the oldest person born in the county. She was a member of the Presbyterian church at Mt. Zion 75 years.

Mrs. Sherod is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Gale Wolf and Mrs. Alva Arnold of Keosauqua, six grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and between 25 and 30 nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were held at the Mt. Zion Presbyterian church at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon in charge of the pastor, the Rev. H. C. Irvine of Birmingham. The Williams brothers quartet sang with Mrs. Florence Campbell as pianist.

Burial was at Millers Chapel cemetery. The bearers were Kenneth Barker, Conley Nelson, C. P. Barker, Earle Murphy, Arnold Barker and Hugh Barker.

From the Keosauqua, Iowa, library Obit Book B., pg. 143. Name and date of newspaper are not known. Handwritten entry says Dec. 1942.