Andrew Jackson Sherman

1853-1888 · Marksville LA

Born 1853, Marksville, Louisiana

Died 1888

Children include George

Andrew Jackson Sherman was born on 19 January 1853 at Marksville, the seat of Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, by his gravestone. In 1870 an Andrew Sherman, 14, was living in Avoyelles Parish in the household of a Sherman born about 1820, with Caroline, 19, and Georges, 17. A New York-born George Sherman, about 30, had been farming at Avoyelles since at least 1850, married to Rosalie Brouillette, and their son George Washington Sherman of Marksville named exactly those parents on his death record in 1942. Andrew was very probably another of their sons, but no record read names his parents.

He married Caroline Chatelain, a Marksville girl eight years younger than him. In June 1880 the census found them at Marksville: Andrew, a farmer, 24 by the census taker's reckoning, Caroline, 20, and their first child, Willy, a year old. Willy was Wiltz Sherman, born on 11 October 1879, who lived to be 96. Florestine followed in September 1881, George A. on 17 January 1884, and Izole in August 1886.

Andrew died at Marksville on 21 February 1888, aged 35. Caroline was then about five months pregnant, and their daughter Lelia was born that August. Caroline never remarried. She raised the five children at Marksville and was listed as a widow in every census from 1900 to 1930. When she died in 1942 she was buried with him in plot 2139 of Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery, under one marble stone carved SHERMAN, with his dates on one side, hers on the other, and a line beneath: "Earth has no sorrows that heaven cannot heal."

Children

George A. Sherman 1884-1966

Sources

Find a Grave memorials 78308004 (Andrew Jackson Sherman) and 78308058 (Carolyn Chatelain Sherman), Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum No. 1, Marksville, plot 2139, photograph.

United States census 1900, Louisiana, Avoyelles Parish, ED 13, sheet 13A, lines 3-9 (FamilySearch 1:1:MSPL-KLF, image 3:1:S3HY-6X33-FF6).

Find a Grave memorial 78308004 with photograph of the stone shared with memorial 78308058; 1880 census Marksville (FamilySearch 1:1:MD6F-FQ2); 1870 census Avoyelles Parish (1:1:M8QP-TR2); 1850 census Avoyelles Parish, household of George Sherman (1:1:MCJ3-KRB); Louisiana parish marriages, George Sherman and Rosalie Brouillette (1:1:QG1T-8HNC); Orleans Parish death record of George Washington Sherman, 1942 (1:1:ZN3P-Q6PZ); 1900 census Marksville, household of Caroline Sherman (1:1:MSPL-KLF).

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Cite: Heirology, "Andrew Jackson Sherman (1853-1888)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/andrew-jackson-sherman-1853-1888-e37188.