Sandy, Thomas D.

SANDY

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 6/13/2021 at 17:34:49

THOMAS D. SANDY
born Sep 2, 1841, Indiana

T. D. Sandy, a highly esteemed and valued citizen of Warren county, who is successfully engaged in farming and stock-raising, is a representative of an honored pioneer family. His career has been one of uprightness and demonstrates what can be accomplished through diligence and perseverance, supplemented by capable business management. Mr. Sandy was born on the 2d of September, 1841, in Owen county, Indiana, and is a son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Ross) Sandy. The father was born in North Carolina in 1795, and at his death in 1880 was laid to rest in the cemetery in Sandyville, which he gave to the town. In 1818 he married Miss Goss, a native of North Carolina, born in 1797. Her death occurred in December, 1875 and the parents now sleep side by side in the city of the dead. They had a family of twelve children. Jeremiah Sandy was one of the pioneers of Warren county and one of the founders of Sandyville, which was named in his honor. Few claims had been taken up when he located here, and he erected one of the first buildings in the town, a fine two-story frame residence, 42 x 48 feet, which was built in 1855, on section 22, Liberty township. He was a man of very great enterprise, possessed a progressive spirit and ever kept abreast with the times. His sons have followed in his footsteps and have achieved still greater successes. One of the number, S. D. Sandy, is the owner of a beautiful home and one of the finest farms in Warren county, and is a very prominent and influential citizen. Jerry has been a wealthy and leading citizen of Indianola, Iowa and William is an honored and respected resident of Warren county. The gentleman whose name introduces this sketch occupies an enviable position both in social and business circles. The greater part of his childhood was passed in the county of his nativity, and he attended school in that community and also pursued his studies in a log school-house in Warren county after the removal of the family to this place. He was early inured to all the labors of farm life and continued to assist in the cultivation of the old homestead until his marriage. On the 30th of December 1862, Mr. Sandy was joined in wedlock with Miss Engabee Beem, a native of Ohio, and a daughter Benjamin and Emily (Myer) Beem, who came to this State in 1855, locating in Sandyville. Mr. and Mrs. Sandy had eight children, namely: Jeremiah B., who was born May 31, 1864, and is now farming on section 10, Liberty township, Warren county; N. C., who was born June 18, 1866, and owns a farm on section 22, Liberty township; Emma E., who was born November 13, 1868, and died January 26, 1869; S. B. M., who was born December 17, 1871, and is now operating a farm in Ackworth, Iowa, belonging to his Uncle Jerry; Zetella B., who was born March 5, 1873, and was married December 26, 1892 to Ed Frank, a farmer of Liberty township; Thomas T., born February 4, 1876; William H., born December 3 1880, and died September 2, 1894; and Mary Engabee, born July 16 1883. Our subject purchased for his first farm 160 acres of land on section 15, Liberty township, and in May, 1870, bought the Wilson farm. He now owns 360 acres of rich and valuable land, forty of which is covered with timber, while the remainder is cultivable. It is now highly improved and yields to the owner a golden tribute in return for the care and cultivation he bestows upon it. In addition he has for many years engaged in buying and shipping stock and has found this a source of income. He has made his own in the world and his competence has been acquired through his own well directed efforts. Any enterprise calculated to prove of benefit to the community receives his support, and he is a public-spirited and progressive citizen. Since casting his first presidential vote Abraham Lincoln he has been a supporter the Republican party. Source: A Memorial and Biographical Record of Iowa, Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1896, vol.1, p.1171