five feet, and twelve feet high. Has no bell. There are about thirty-seven members that meet there. The building stands in and near to the northwest corner of the northeast quarter of section 13, township 84, range 22. Rev. W. A. Welker is their pastor.
There are two cemeteries, perhaps more, in the township, one at the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of section twenty-six; the other more recently laid off is in the west half of the northeast quarter of section thirteen.
SHERMAN TOWNSHIP.
A HISTORY OF SHERMAN TOWNSHIP FROM ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT,
ORGANIZATION, ETC., TO MARCH 1887—CONTAINING, ALSO,
A NOTICE OF MANY OF ITS CITIZENS.
POPULATION 589.
It is believed its name, "Sherman," was given in honor of General William Tecumseh Sherman, who did noble service in the Federal Army during the Rebellion of the "Southern Confederacy." Sherman Township was organized 1867—all of township 84 north, range 21 west.
Wm. SMAY is doing a big business in the molasses line; the cane pilled up around the mill reminds one of a southern sugar plantation; He employs from twelve to fifteen men and is making a good article of molasses.—(October 2, 1878.)
Our township is visited with the scourge of; the hog disease, many of our farmers loosing nearly all of their hogs, seems to be a fever. ANON.—(October 2, 1878.)
The roads are smooth and dusty.
Wheat and oats all cut and stacking commenced.
Robert Hardin had the misfortune to lose one of his fine grey horses while cutting oats for Mr. Dayton.
Wm. SMAY has built a nice cheese house. He still keeps improving his creamery.—(August 23, 1882.)