Eunice A. (Allyn) Sherwood (1831 - 1912)

Born 13 Apr 1831 in Johnston, Trumbull, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Almon C. Miner — married 27 May 1848 in Trumbull County, Ohio, United States

Wife of John Adams Sherwood — married 11 Mar 1867 in Center Township, Fayette, Iowa, United States

Descendants

Died 3 Jun 1912 at age 81 in Conway Springs, Sumner, Kansas

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Biography

Eunice Allen was born on 13 Apr 1831in Johnston, Trumbull, Ohio, USA. She was The daughter of Jonathan Allen and Roxana Lamb. Eunice Allen was married to Almon C. Miner May 27, 1848 in Johnson Twp., Trumbull Co., Ohio, to this union 4 children were born, Mary Elmira Miner, Ephigene "Eve" Effie J. Miner, Charles A. Miner,Chester Warren Miner. Almon, had forsaken Eunice and her four babies, going off with one Harriett Taft, who was one of his school day sweet hearts, to marry. She wasted no life over her unworthy husband, but bravely took up the farm work in addition to the housework, and raised her four children to be respectable men and women. On March 11, 1867 in Center Twp., Fayette Co., Iowa she married John A. Sherwood, and to this union 3 children were born, Clara Bell Sherwood, Jessie L. Sherwood, Augustus "Guy" Sherwood.

One thing people criticized Aunt Eunice for was reading the New York Ledger, in those days a vender of continued stories of lawless love and blood and thunder, which Aunt Eunice would read. Aunt had a hungry mind , reading, no doubt whatever she could get her busy hands on. After doing the hardest day's work she often in the evening saddled the best horse in the stable and rode at break neck speed 7 miles to Fayette to get the "Ledger," and sit up till day-light to read the continued stories. But was ready to do her day's work in the field the next morning. And it is a notorious fact among the ancient neighbors of Center Township, that she could and did, bind on the ground, swath for swath with the best of the men, laying sometimes her baby Chester in the shade of a grain shock; nursing him at proper times; and that she would get dinner for the harvesting crew she bound with, and wash up the dishes while they smoked their pipes, and be one of the foremost in the field, every day, in all busy seasons. Her life was a hard one; her heart was a generous one; her strength was or had been unlimited; and her hand never closed to those who were in need. But her youth and beauty, if she had had any, were gone. It was she who cared for old granddad Lamb.

Timeline

Birth

Eunice was born on April 13, 1831 in Johnston, Trumbull, Ohio.^[1]

Death

Eunice died on June 3, 1912 in Conway Springs, Sumner, Kansas and is buried in Conway Springs Cemetery in Conway Springs, Sumner, Kansas.^[1]

Marriages

Eunice Allen (Allyn) married Almon Miner on May 27, 1848 in Trumbull County, Ohio. Almon was 19.^[2]

Eunice and John Adams Sherwood were married after she was married to Almon C. Miner and that marriage was dissolved. According to FAG, they had three children together: Clara Belle Sherwood, Jessie L. Sherwood and Augustus Guy Sherwood.^[1]

Records

Eunice and Almon were mentioned in their son's, Charles A. Miner, Iowa County Marriage Record.^[3]

Notes

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Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Eunice A. Allyn Sherwood on Find A Grave: Memorial #30623319 retrieved 2018-09-17
2. ↑ "Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDD2-NM3 : 10 February 2018), Almon Miner and Eunice Allen, 27 May 1848; citing Trumbull Co., Ohio, reference 2:3Z3V53G; FHL microfilm 904255.
3. ↑ "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KLWZ-2FR : 18 October 2017), Eunice Allen in entry for Charles A Miner and Erma L Meckle, 25 Dec 1883, , Fayette, Iowa, United States; citing reference , county courthouses, Iowa; FHL microfilm 1018351.

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD28-VXR : 14 August 2017), Eunice A Sherwood in household of J A Sherwood, Center, Fayette, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district ED 194, sheet 30B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1254339.

"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVT-NLKK : 11 July 2016), Eunice A. Allyn Sherwood, 1912; Burial, Conway Springs, Sumner, Kansas, United States of America, Conway Springs Cemetery; citing record ID 30623319, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.