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John E. Sherrod
I am looking for information on a John Sherrod(Planter) born 1774 in N.C. and died in Limestone County Alabama He was married to Martha Carr Dickerson Darden born in TN. His son John E. Sherrod was born 1818 in Nc. died 1875 in Brown County Texas and was married to Martha Ann Davis born 188GA died 1860 in Burnett or San Augustine Texas She was the daughter of Rev. James Loveless Davis,Cousinto Pres.Jefferson Davis CSA.There children were: Randall,Mary Elizabeth,James J.,Martha Luanna, Richard,John,Nancy Jane,and Samuel Washington. Thanks,Yvonne Page
Dorothy Toney
The following comments about Dorothy were written by her mother, Amanda Morgan Sherrod: Dorothy is a very pretty girl of fine intelligence and at present is holding a position with the Telephone Co. She is practical and seems to have a fine business head. Charlie, the younger son is still at school and a boy of fine promise, and his inclinations, like his brothers, centers in automobiles, which he believes to be the coming business.
Eugene "Big Daddie" Sherrod
Individual: [Morgans, Wm andSons.FBK.FBK.FTW] The following information about his grandfather, Eugene ("Big Daddy") Sherrod, was kindly provided by Sid Stover: "Even though Big Daddy may have come from money, he was primarily a cowboy. In fact, he is the one who homesteaded the section and three-quarters in Andrews and Gaines Counties where they found oil. He actually went out there and lived on the property for the prescribed period of time so he could get title to it from the State. If you ever saw that piece of country, you would know that that was no easy task. Everything out there has thorns. "He never really held down a steady job until your Dad [Eugene Sherrod, Jr.] started college. That's when he got the court reporting job, and Muddy was bound and determined to get all of her children through college as quickly as possible while he had that job. They all, for some reason, went to the University of Arkansas, and Judy [daughter of Big Daddy and Muddy] and my mother were Pi Phis there. My mother [Mildred] actually graduated with a teaching certificate when she was nineteen years old. That's because Muddy wouldn't let her quit going to school while Big Daddy had a job. "About that job: Big Daddy was supposed to be taking the testimony down in shorthand, but he didn't know shorthand. Muddy bought him a tape recorded, and they were recording everything that was going on in the courtroom, and then he was bringing it home at night and she was typing it up. I don't even think he could type. She would type it up every night, and he would have it there in court every morning. Muddy was an extremely talented lady, being very very bright and able to do a lot of things. She could play the piano beautifully, and play anything you could whistle by ear. "Big Daddy liked to hunt and fish." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following comments about Eugene Sherrod Sr. were provided by his grandson, Phillip Haines Sherrod: "During the summers of 1953 and 1954 (when I was 6 and 7) I stayed with Big Daddy and Muddy on the farm during the days while my father was working. I have many good memories of both of them. "One day when I was walking around the farm with Big Daddy we found a baby hawk that had fallen out of the nest. Big Daddy said the bird would die, but I insisted that we nurse it. We did, and the bird thrived and became my pet. I named the bird 'Butch'. Big Daddy was so amused at the thought of a pet hawk that he took a picture of me holding it and sent it with a letter to 'Texas Game and Fish' which ran the picture and letter in their November, 1954 edition. I still have a copy of it. "Big Daddy was a quiet man, but there was a sharp wit behind the quite demeanor. I remember that frequently he would find some point of humor in something that Muddy or I said. Once Muddy was nursing a foot that she had dropped some scissors on. She remarked that the scissor tail birds [a Texas variety] seemed quite today. Big Daddy replied "I don't care about the scissor tails, how are the scissor toes?" "I remember another time when I was 12 telling Big Daddy about a camping and caving trip that I had gone on with a school group. I excitedly told him 'It was raining outside so we had to SLEEP in the cave!' He thought about it for a second or two, smiled, and said, "You mean you had to SPEND THE NIGHT in the cave!' "Big Daddy loved to hunt and fish, but by the time I was old enough to know him well he was in his 70's. I remember that he spent time preparing trout lines for some hoped-for future date when he would set them out. A trout line is a long line with short lines with hooks hanging down every foot or two. He would meticulously cut each line, carefully tie on the hook, and attach the hook line to the main line. He would then add the hook to the set of hooks hanging on the back of a chair. He made hundreds of these. "I remember he had a picture of a fighting cock hung on the wall of his bedroom. The cock looked fierce and it had sharp hooks carefully tied to its ankles. He told me that the picture predated the Civil War." --------------------------------------- Obituary for Eugene Sherrod. A Wichitan who came to this city in a covered wagon in 1893 and who stayed to play a prominent role in the development of the area, Eugene Sherrod, 78, died Friday night at his home, 1683 Woodrow. He was born April 23, 1884 to Col. and Mrs. W.C. Sherrod in Florence, Ala. Sherrod was nine years old when his father, who had served a term in Congress representing a northern Alabama district, loaded the family belongings into wagons and brought 30 "cotton" mules to Wichita County. The Sherrods had a spread near Wichita Falls where they raised saddle horses and cattle. An avid sportsman in his younger days, Sherrod was an enthusiastic gun collector and claimed he had just about every type of gun that was made. His favorite was an English Wesley Richards shotgun formerly owned by his father who had fought with Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest in the Civil War. [Note from Phil Sherrod: all of these guns were destroyed when a fire ravaged the Sherrod farm house. It was a bitter disappointment to Eugene Sherrod Sr. and my father, Eugene Sherrod Jr., that the shotgun belonging to W.C. Sherrod had been destroyed.] Sherrod was an employe of J.A. Kemp, early developer of Wichita Falls, and worked for many years as a secretary, stenographer, bookkeeper and office manager for several Kemp enterprises. After working for Kemp, Sherrod was employed by the Fort Worth and Denver Railway as a stenographer for three years, first in Wichita Falls and then in Fort Worth. He later worked two years for the Florida East Coast Railroad at St. Augustine, Fla., then returned to Wichita Falls to become associated again with Kemp. Sherrod wrote the first letter for Kemp that led to the eventual construction of Lake Kemp. He later was a court reporter here and eventually got into oil and ranching. In 1905, Sherrod and Virginia Withers, daughter of an Arkansas cotton planter who had been a captain the Confederate army, were married in Wichita Falls. Survivors include his wife; a son, Eugene Sherrod Jr., 2031 Avondale; a daughter, Mrs. B.H.C. Stover, Dallas; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. [Morgans, Wm andSons.FBK.FTW] The following information about his grandfather, Eugene ("Big Daddy") Sherrod, was kindly provided by Sid Stover: "Even though Big Daddy may have come from money, he was primarily a cowboy. In fact, he is the one who homesteaded the section and three-quarters in Andrews and Gaines Counties where they found oil. He actually went out there and lived on the property for the prescribed period of time so he could get title to it from the State. If you ever saw that piece of country, you would know that that was no easy task. Everything out there has thorns. "He never really held down a steady job until your Dad [Eugene Sherrod, Jr.] started college. That's when he got the court reporting job, and Muddy was bound and determined to get all of her children through college as quickly as possible while he had that job. They all, for some reason, went to the University of Arkansas, and Judy [daughter of Big Daddy and Muddy] and my mother were Pi Phis there. My mother [Mildred] actually graduated with a teaching certificate when she was nineteen years old. That's because Muddy wouldn't let her quit going to school while Big Daddy had a job. "About that job: Big Daddy was supposed to be taking the testimony down in shorthand, but he didn't know shorthand. Muddy bought him a tape recorded, and they were recording everything that was going on in the courtroom, and then he was bringing it home at night and she was typing it up. I don't even think he could type. She would type it up every night, and he would have it there in court every morning. Muddy was an extremely talented lady, being very very bright and able to do a lot of things. She could play the piano beautifully, and play anything you could whistle by ear. "Big Daddy liked to hunt and fish." -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- The following comments about Eugene Sherrod Sr. were provided by his grandson, Phillip Haines Sherrod: "During the summers of 1953 and 1954 (when I was 6 and 7) I stayed with Big Daddy and Muddy on the farm during the days while my father was working. I have many good memories of both of them. "One day when I was walking around the farm with Big Daddy we found a baby hawk that had fallen out of the nest. Big Daddy said the bird would die, but I insisted that we nurse it. We did, and the bird thrived and became my pet. I named the bird 'Butch'. Big Daddy was so amused at the thought of a pet hawk that he took a picture of me holding it and sent it with a letter to 'Texas Game and Fish' which ran the picture and letter in their November, 1954 edition. I still have a copy of it. "Big Daddy was a quiet man, but there was a sharp wit behind the quite demeanor. I remember that frequently he would find some point of humor in something that Muddy or I said. Once Muddy was nursing a foot that she had dropped some scissors on. She remarked that the scissor tail birds [a Texas variety] seemed quite today. Big Daddy replied "I don't care about the scissor tails, how are the scissor toes?" "I remember another time when I was 12 telling Big Daddy about a camping and caving trip that I had gone on with a school group. I excitedly told him 'It was raining outside so we had to SLEEP in the cave!' He thought about it for a second or two, smiled, and said, "You mean you had to SPEND THE NIGHT in the cave!' "Big Daddy loved to hunt and fish, but by the time I was old enough to know him well he was in his 70's. I remember that he spent time preparing trout lines for some hoped-for future date when he would set them out. A trout line is a long line with short lines with hooks hanging down every foot or two. He would meticulously cut each line, carefully tie on the hook, and attach the hook line to the main line. He would then add the hook to the set of hooks hanging on the back of a chair. He made hundreds of these. "I remember he had a picture of a fighting cock hung on the wall of his bedroom. The cock looked fierce and it had sharp hooks carefully tied to its ankles. He told me that the picture predated the Civil War." --------------------------------------- Obituary for Eugene Sherrod. A Wichitan who came to this city in a covered wagon in 1893 and who stayed to play a prominent role in the development of the area, Eugene Sherrod, 78, died Friday night at his home, 1683 Woodrow. He was born April 23, 1884 to Col. and Mrs. W.C. Sherrod in Florence, Ala. Sherrod was nine years old when his father, who had served a term in Congress representing a northern Alabama district, loaded the family belongings into wagons and brought 30 "cotton" mules to Wichita County. The Sherrods had a spread near Wichita Falls where they raised saddle horses and cattle. An avid sportsman in his younger days, Sherrod was an enthusiastic gun collector and claimed he had just about every type of gun that was made. His favorite was an English Wesley Richards shotgun formerly owned by his father who had fought with Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest in the Civil War. [Note from Phil Sherrod: all of these guns were destroyed when a fire ravaged the Sherrod farm house. It was a bitter disappointment to Eugene Sherrod Sr. and my father, Eugene Sherrod Jr., that the shotgun belonging to W.C. Sherrod had been destroyed.] Sherrod was an employe of J.A. Kemp, early developer of Wichita Falls, and worked for many years as a secretary, stenographer, bookkeeper and office manager for several Kemp enterprises. After working for Kemp, Sherrod was employed by the Fort Worth and Denver Railway as a stenographer for three years, first in Wichita Falls and then in Fort Worth. He later worked two years for the Florida East Coast Railroad at St. Augustine, Fla., then returned to Wichita Falls to become associated again with Kemp. Sherrod wrote the first letter for Kemp that led to the eventual construction of Lake Kemp. He later was a court reporter here and eventually got into oil and ranching. In 1905, Sherrod and Virginia Withers, daughter of an Arkansas cotton planter who had been a captain the Confederate army, were married in Wichita Falls. Survivors include his wife; a son, Eugene Sherrod Jr., 2031 Avondale; a daughter, Mrs. B.H.C. Stover, Dallas; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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