When Charles Anson Sherman was born on 28 February 1842, in East Springfield, Springfield Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Anson Bassett Sherman, was 36 and his mother, Angeline Gray, was 27. He married Sarah Cornelia Brockway on 15 December 1864, in Springfield Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Capioma, Nemaha, Kansas, United States in 1880 and Wyandotte, Kansas, United States for about 15 years. He died on 20 May 1921, in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States.
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Bleeding Kansas was a time period between the years 1854 and 1861 with a series of violent confrontations over whether slavery would be legal in Kansas Territory.
Historical Boundaries: 1857: Nemaha, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Nemaha, Kansas, United States
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
English (London): occupational name denoting someone who used shears to trim the surface of finished cloth and remove excessive nap, from Middle English sherman, shirman, sharman ‘shearman’.
Americanized form of North German Schürmann (see Schuermann ) and of German or Jewish (Ashkenazic) Schermann .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a tailor, from Yiddish sher ‘scissors’ + man ‘man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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