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William H. Sherman, a farmer and stock raiser of Franklin County, was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., May 13, 1802, the only son of William and Elizabeth (Stark) Sherman. The father, who was also a native of Dutchess County, where he was reared and followed the pursuits of farming and stock raising all his life, died when our subject was a child. After the death of her husband Mrs. Elizabeth Sherman returned to her native State, Pennsylvania, where, to support herself and son, she engaged in tailoring. She died as she had lived, a Christian woman, in 1837. William H. Sherman grew to manhood in Pennsylvania, where he learned the carpenter’s trade, and returning to his birthplace he followed carpentering for thirteen years. In 1824 he married Sarah Kennedy, a daughter of Thomas Kennedy, and a native of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Sarah Sherman died in 1856, the mother of eleven children, six of whom are now living, viz.: Henry, James, Almond, John, David, and Mary, now the wife of Henry Kennedy, of Clark County, Ill. Mr. Sherman subsequently married Mrs. Maria Watson, nee Walker, who was born in Ohio, and their children are Scott, Emma (wife of Charles Hiatt) and Orr. Mr. Sherman located in Licking County, Ohio, in 1837, where he engaged in farming until 1850, when he removed to California, returning to Ohio in 1852. Two years later he became the possessor of a large farm of 500 acres in Clark County, Ill. He removed to his present farm in Franklin County, Ark., in 1879, where he is extensively engaged in stock raising and the production of hay. The farm consists of 803 acres, and is one of the finest in the county. Mr. Sherman creditably filled the office of county supervisor for several years, and also served as commissioner of roads. He is a member of the F. & A. M., and in political faith is a Democrat. Mrs. Sherman is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.