Charles Henry Sherwood^[1]

1853 - 1915  (62 years)

• Name	Charles Henry Sherwood  [2]
  Birth	13 Nov 1853	Damascus, Wayne Co., PA   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	18 Nov 1915	Belmont, NY   [2]
  Burial	Forest Hills Cemetery, Belmont, NY   [2]
  Person ID	I26873	First tree
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Wakeman D. Sherwood,   b. 21 Mar 1821, Weston, Fairfield Co., CT d. 9 Mar 1904, Gleason, PA (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Lucia Janet Brown,   b. 24 May 1827, Weston, Fairfield Co., CT d. 22 Aug 1906, Canton, PA (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	6 Jul 1845	Westfield, CT   [2]
  Family ID	F49602	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Josephine Rue,   b. 4 Sep 1854, Damascus, Wayne Co., PA d. 15 Dec 1931, Belmont, NY (Age 77 years)
  Children	1. Jessie Sherwood   2. Bess Sherwood   3. Julie Sherwood,   b. Abt 26 Aug 1879   d. 5 Nov 1881 (Age 2 years)   4. Albert Rue Sherwood,   b. 12 Jan 1881   d. 1962, Belmont, NY (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F51530	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2013

  
  

• Notes

  From WFT Vol 21, Tree #542: He was a shipping clerk at a tannery near Wellsboro, Pa, or, perhaps a bookkeeper at Landrus(no longer exits) near Antrim, Pa. Later he lived at Elmira Heights, NY prior to moving to Belmont with his wife. Came to Belmont, NY in August 1915 to live with his son while sick with stomach cancer. He died November 18, 1915, 6 months before Ellen Sherwood was born. Before Elmira Heights, he and family lived at Landrus (does not exist in 1992), Antrim, PA and Morris, PA. He may have been a bookkeeper for a coal company at Antrim. Death Certificate indicates date of death as November 18, 1915; cause of death- Cancer of Stomach. Occupation- Shipping Clerk in tannery (perhaps near Wellsboro, PA). Born at Damascus, Pa.; Father- Wakeman Sherwood. Mother- Lucy Brown. Buried in Forest Hills Cemetery, Belmont, NY. '10 He was a log rider. He rode the logs being floated down the Delaware River. He met his wife as he stayed overnight at probably Milanville. Died of stomach cancer according to death certificate at Belmont, NY

  
  

• Sources

  [S3318] . [S2281] .