George A. Sherman

1884-1966 · Louisiana

Born 1884, Louisiana

Died 1966

Father: Andrew Jackson Sherman

Mother: Caroline Chatelain

Children include Sable

George A. Sherman was born on 17 January 1884 in Louisiana, by his Social Security record; his 1942 draft registration at Marksville gives 27 January. He lived his whole life in and around Marksville, the seat of Avoyelles Parish on the Red River prairie, where the old French families of the parish, Bordelons among them, had farmed for two centuries.

On 22 January 1908 he married Cecile Bordelon in Avoyelles Parish. Their daughters followed: Sable Mary in February 1913, Narcille about 1916, Gladys about 1920, Georgette in 1921, Una Lee about 1926, and Rena, whose place in the order is not known. In 1930 the household in Police Jury Ward 2 was George, 46, Cecile, 42, and the five younger girls; Sable, 17, was still at home. By 1940 only Gladys, 20, and Una Lee, 14, remained, and in April 1950 George, 66, and Cecile, 62, were alone in Marksville. He registered for the draft in the fourth registration of 1942, the one for men born between 1877 and 1897.

He died in March 1966, aged 82, and was buried at Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Marksville under a grey granite stone that later took Cecile's name as well: "SHERMAN. GEORGE A. 1884-1966. CECILE B. 1888-1986. May they rest in peace."

He was the son of Andrew Jackson Sherman and Caroline Chatelain of Marksville. His father died in February 1888, when George was four, and his mother never remarried. In June 1900 George, 16, was living with her in Marksville town, with his sisters Florstine, Izole and Lilia; his older brother Wiltz had left home. In 1910, two years married, he and Cecile were in Ward 2 with their first child, Rena, and his widowed mother lived nearby. On his First World War draft registration in 1918 he gave his birth as 17 January 1885 and named Cecile Bordelan Sherman as his nearest relative; the clerk's reading of his first name is Antome, probably Antoine, the A. of George A.

Parents

Andrew Jackson Sherman 1853-1888 Caroline Chatelain 1861-1942

Children

Sable Mary Sherman 1913-1999

Sources

Find a Grave memorials 67113278 (George A. Sherman) and 67113341 (Cecile Bordelon Sherman), photograph added 2011.

United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007, through FamilySearch (ark 1:1:6K78-DWTJ).

United States Census, 1930 (ark 1:1:XMT2-YDM), 1940 (ark 1:1:VYR4-FJF) and 1950 (ark 1:1:6XL9-NNYD), Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, through FamilySearch.

Louisiana, Parish Marriages, 1787-1958, through FamilySearch (ark 1:1:QLMH-K11J); Social Security Death Index (ark 1:1:JLD4-RQ9); World War II draft registration cards (ark 1:1:X59S-QZ8).

The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, published 7 to 8 January 2003, through legacy.com (nola, obituary id 16335633).

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).

Louisiana parish marriages 1787-1958 (FamilySearch 1:1:QLMH-K11J); 1930 census (1:1:XMT2-YDM); 1940 census (1:1:VYR4-FJF); 1950 census (1:1:6XL9-NNYD); World War II draft registration (1:1:X59S-QZ8); Social Security death index (1:1:JLD4-RQ9); Find a Grave memorials 67113278 and 67113341; Times-Picayune obituary of Georgette Sherman Aiple, 7-8 January 2003.; 1900 census Marksville town, household of Caroline Sherman (1:1:MSPL-KLF); 1910 census Ward 2 (1:1:MPTX-K2Z); First World War draft registration (1:1:WQHL-LZ2M); Find a Grave memorials 78308004 and 78308058.

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