Hadley Thurston Sherman 1855-1907

SHERMAN, HERRING, ENTLER, PERKINS, CHENEY

Posted By: Volunteer - Rich Lowe
Date: 2/27/2012 at 06:45:12

Thurston Sherman.

Hadley Thurston Sherman, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Sherman, was born in Athens county, Ohio, near Coalville, June 26, 1855. At the age of twenty-one months his parents came to Keokuk by steamboat and directly to Bonaparte by team.

Here he grew to manhood and in the spring of 1875 he entered the tinshop and stove business as apprentice to J. S. Entler. After learning the trade he decided to go to St. Louis and in July, 1877, he went to that city, but in a very short time went to Edwards, Miss.

From there to Raymond and then to Bolton where he clerked he passed about eleven years, the last of which he was engaged in the general mercantile business for himself.

He was married Feb. 12, 1881, at Crystal Springs, Miss., to Miss Mollie Herring. They with their first three children moved to Jackson, Miss., about eighteen years ago where he continued the business in which he was engaged at Bolton until 1892.

Then he was compelled by a severe illness to give up business and with his family went to Biloxi, Miss., a coast resort, for a year or more.

He reengaged in business in Jackson in the fall of 1893 and continued the same until his death, Jan. 14, 1907. He was stricken with apoplexy at his home on Monday during his sleep. Everything in the power of physicians was done but he died without pain in a few hours.

He leaves four children, one daughter and three sons, one son having died in 1894 at the age of fifteen months.

His body was interred in Crystal Springs cemetery. The services were held at Jackson conducted by the minister of the Presbyterian church of which denomination for many years.

Besides his wife and children he leaves to mourn their loss his mother, Mrs. N. E. Sherman, his sisters, Mrs. J. S. Entler and Mrs. Robt. Perkins; and a brother, Orville Sherman, all of Bonaparte; a sister, Mrs. G. L. Cheney of Moberly, Mo., a brother, W. E. Sherman of Coleburg, Ala., and a brother Albert Sherman, of McComb, Miss.
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Source: Entler Scrapbook Collection, vol 3, Iowa Historical Library, Iowa City, IA