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Adiel Sherwood
1791 - 1879 (87 years)-
Name Adiel Sherwood Birth 3 Oct 1791 Fort Edward, Washington, New York 
[1] Gender Male Death 18 Aug 1879 [1] Burial Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri [1] Person ID I28544 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 8 May 2020
Father Adiel Sherwood, b. 25 Dec 1749, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut d. 14 Dec 1824, Kingsbury, Washington, New York (Age 74 years) Mother Sarah Sherwood, b. Jun 1755, Litchfield County, Connecticut d. Mar 1827, Kingsbury, Washington, New York (Age ~ 71 years) Marriage 1772 Newton, Fairfield, Connecticut [2, 3] Family ID F16570 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Anne Adams, b. 1783, Bedford, Bedford, Virginia d. Nov 1822 (Age 39 years) Marriage 17 May 1821 [1] Family ID F17016 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 8 May 2020
Family 2 Emma Heriot Marriage May 1824 [1] Children 1. Thomas Adiel Sherwood, b. 2 Jun 1834, Eatonton, Putnam, Georgia d. 22 Nov 1918, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California (Age 84 years)Family ID F17018 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 8 May 2020
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Notes - "Sherwood attended Middlebury College in Vermont and Union College in New York City. In 1819, he moved to Savannah, Georgia, where he involved himself with the Baptist ministry. He was instrumental in the founding of the Georgia Baptist Convention. He introduced and widened the support of the temperance movement after moving to Georgia. While in Georgia, his manual-labor system helped inspire the founding of Mercer University and in 1857, he became president of Marshall College in Griffin, Georgia. Between 1827 and 1860, he collected statistical information on Georgia’s counties and place names, which he compiled into his publication A Gazetteer of the State of Georgia. Sherwood published as many as five different editions between the years of 1827 and 1860. After his farm in Butts County, Georgia was burned by Sherman’s troops in the American Civil War, Sherwood moved to Missouri, where he died on August 19, 1879." [Wikipedia, accessed 8 May 2020]
Among his several literary works is an anti-Semitic tract entitled The Jewish and Christian Churches: Or, The Hebrew Congregation and Christian Church, Distinct Organizations (1854).
He is buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, directly across Calvary Avenue from Calvary Cemetery, resting place of William Tecumseh Sherman.
- "Sherwood attended Middlebury College in Vermont and Union College in New York City. In 1819, he moved to Savannah, Georgia, where he involved himself with the Baptist ministry. He was instrumental in the founding of the Georgia Baptist Convention. He introduced and widened the support of the temperance movement after moving to Georgia. While in Georgia, his manual-labor system helped inspire the founding of Mercer University and in 1857, he became president of Marshall College in Griffin, Georgia. Between 1827 and 1860, he collected statistical information on Georgia’s counties and place names, which he compiled into his publication A Gazetteer of the State of Georgia. Sherwood published as many as five different editions between the years of 1827 and 1860. After his farm in Butts County, Georgia was burned by Sherman’s troops in the American Civil War, Sherwood moved to Missouri, where he died on August 19, 1879." [Wikipedia, accessed 8 May 2020]
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Sources - [S4127] Jarrett Burch, "Adiel Sherwood: Religious Pioneer of Nineteenth-Century Georgia." The Georgia Historical Quarterly 87:22, 2003.
- [S1269] Find a Grave page for Col Adiel Sherwood.
- [S4126] A. S. Florence Bible Record, Monticello, Georgia. From Jasper County Georgia Cemetery and Bible Records by Jewel Moats Lancaster. Shady Dale, Georgia, 1969., year only.
- [S4127] Jarrett Burch, "Adiel Sherwood: Religious Pioneer of Nineteenth-Century Georgia." The Georgia Historical Quarterly 87:22, 2003.