Adiel Sherwood

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"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.

Adiel married Anne Adams on 17 May 1821. Anne was born in 1783 in Bedford, Bedford, Virginia; died in Nov 1822. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adiel married Emma Heriot in May 1824. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court from 1873 to 1902. Chief Justice from 1872 to 1883.