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Selected Families and Individuals
Notes
John Sherrod
John Sherrod was very light complected and was known as "White John" Sherrod. He conducted a general real estate business and was Mayor of Tuscumbia from 1914 to 1918. He always maintained he would have benn elected for another term, but the elction was held on a Jewish holiday. The handful of Jewish voters in town favored him but could not vote on that day and as a result he was defeated by O.B. Clark.
His old home still stands at the corner of Seventh and Washington Street in Tuscumbia, having been occupied by the same family for 100 years.
He had three daughters and one son, all of whom devoted their lives to teaching school in Colbert County. None were ever married and the last member of the family, Samuel, died in 1994. One daughter, Mary Lou, adopted Thomas Steger Sanford, who was the first serviceman from Colbert County killed in WWI aboard the U.S.S. Arizona at Pearl Harbor.
John Sherrod wrote the following letter to Ben W. Sherrod:
John Sherrod my great grandfather had only two sons, Robert and Irvin. He was a man of considerable wealth, he was married twice. My grandfather, whose name was Robert, was the son of his first wife and his other son, by his second wife, was named Irvin.
My great grandfather lived in Northampton County N.C. My grandfather moved from the county and state above mentioned in 1819 and settled in Lauderdale County, AL. My greatgrandfather promised my grandfather when he died that all his property should be his, but yearsafter when he died there was a will found giving his entire estate to his younger son, Irvin Sherrod and to my grandfather $2.50. My grandfather always believed it was not properly construed.
When my grandfather moved to Lauderdale County leaving Northampton County near Northampton Courthouse in 1819 my father was then five years old, whose name was John and the eldest son of my grandfather.
My grandfather had five sons, all of whom raised families. Jim Sherrod, my uncle, moved to Newbern Tennessee, and has only one living son. Tom Sherrod moved to Texas and had only one son. My youngest uncle had two sons living at Riverton Al. Mack H. Sherrod lives in Lauderdale County and has five sons, all living with or near him. My father had three sons.
Note: This home was for sale in 2002 and there is a monument in the yard to the Sherrod family of educators.
Sherrod
Never Married
Sherrod
Never Married
Samuel Sherrod
Never Married
Mary Lou Sherrod
Mary Lou never married but adopted Thomas Steger Sanford, who was the first serviceman from Colbert Co, AL killed in WW II onboard the U.S.S. Arizona at Pearl Harbor.
Thomas Steger Sanford
Mary Lou adopted Thomas Steger Sanford, who was the first serviceman from Colbert County killed in WW II aboard the U.S.S. Arizona at Pearl Harbor.
Thomas Steger Sanford
Mary Lou adopted Thomas Steger Sanford, who was the first serviceman from Colbert County killed in WW II aboard the U.S.S. Arizona at Pearl Harbor.
John Henry Sherrod
John Henry Sherrod was the entrepeneur of his branch of the family. He bought and sold cattle and horses, real estate and was partners with his nephew J.C. "Claude" Waddell in the Waddell store in the Valdosta area of Tuscumbia. He took over the old Penick lands and with additional land on Hawk Pride Mountain was active in farming and land speculation for many years. He and his oldest son, Henry Floyd Sherrod donated land for both the hawk pride and Chapel Hill Churches of Christ in West Colbert County. His timber and sandstone also went into the reconstruction of Boy Scout Troop 49s clubhouse behind the First Presbyterian Church minister's home in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
John Henry Sherrod was dark complexioned and was known as "Black John" Sherrod. He numbered among his friends, A. H. Carmichael, Sr. Jack Wagnon (of Wagnon's Mt.) Joe Walker, Joe Foster (tax collector and son in law) D. W. matthews, Any McWilliams of Red Rock and George Gibson, the town blacksmith.
Rosie Lee Sherrod
Daughter, Ethel recalls the bitter wind sweeping in from the Tennessee River with such force that snow was driven through the outer planks of the house and rested on the quilts of the bed where Rosie Lee was giving birth to her youngest child. She remembers her mother too soon, getting up to take care of her eight other children and still too weak losing the baby and her own life at the age of 36.
William E. Banks
William E. Banks was born July 19, 1848, at Springdale, Benton County, Arkansas, and died in Jackson County, Oklahoma, June 18, 1915.
His father's name was Simon Banks. His mother's maiden name was Mary Sherrod. His grandfather's name on his faher's side was Thomas Banks. His grandmother's maiden name on his father's side was Jarvis. His grandfather's name on his mother's side was Arthur Sherrod and his grandmother's name on his mother's side was Susan Sherrod, whose maiden name we have been unable to ascertain.
He married Bettie Elizabeth Fitzgerald in 1875. Of this union there were born the following children:
Albert Banks, born in 1873, lives at Chillicothe, Texas. Frank Banks, born in 1875, now deceased.
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Olen Banks, born in 1878, lives at Hess, Jackson County, Oklahoma Clyde Banks, born in 1883, lives at Hess, Jackson County, Oklahoma. Homer Banks, born in 1879, lives at Hess, Jackson County, Oklahoma.
He moved to East Texas in 1878 and in 1888 removed to Greer County, which was then under the jurisdiction of the State of Texas. He made the run in 1889, locating on a claim in Mustang Valley in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Territory. His location was unsuccessfully contested by a Sooner. However he did not stay long in Oklahoma County but relinquished his claim and moved back to Greer County in the fall of 1889 and was a continuous resident in the Hess Community from then until his death.
He was elected to the Constitutional Convention and, when the Convention divided Greer County, he was permitted to name the southern portion of Greer County, which was cut off into a separate county, and he suggested the name of Jackson in honor of General Andrew Jackson, of whom he was a great admirer.
He was also a member of the First Legislature being elected from Jackson County, which he assisted in creating.
He was in the Confederate Army during the last two years of the Civil war: was a Baptist preacher for twenty-seven years and was engaged in farming in the Hess Community, Jackson County, Oklahoma, where he lived from 1889, until his death in 1915.
Olen Banks
Lived in Hess, Jackson Co, OK
Homer Banks
Lived in Hess, Jackson Co, OK
Clyde Banks
Lived in Hess, Jackson Co, OK
William Lowndes Yancey Sherrod
Shot and killed by Thomas Darby.
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