Sherwood Ferris Blasdel

1848 - 1933  (84 years)

• Name	Sherwood Ferris Blasdel
  Born	8 Dec 1848	Dearborn County, Indiana, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	1933	Dearborn County, Indiana, USA   [1]
  Buried	Gibson Cemetery, Bright, Dearborn, Indiana
  	Sec 1 - Lot 51 - W2
  Person ID	I254	Decker Family Tree
  Last Modified	11 Oct 2019

  
  

  Father	John Ferris Blasdel,   b. 18 Jul 1821, Dearborn County, Indiana, USA ,   d. 29 Mar 1863, Tennessee, USA  (Age 41 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mary Jane Hampson,   b. 1823, West Virginia, USA ,   d. 1884  (Age 61 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F93	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Jane Kirkwood,   b. 6 Jun 1860, Dearborn County, Indiana, USA ,   d. 28 Jul 1947, Harrison, Hamilton, Ohio, USA  (Age 87 years)
  Married	26 Mar 1878	Dearborn County, Indiana, USA
  Children	1. Leanora Blasdel,   b. 15 Jun 1879, Dearborn County, Indiana, USA ,   d. 26 Nov 1940, Harrison, Hamilton, Ohio, USA  (Age 61 years)  [natural]   2. Arthur Garfield Blasdel,   b. 4 Dec 1880,   d. 13 Dec 1886  (Age 6 years)  [natural]   3. Oscar William Blasdel,   b. 1885,   d. 1906  (Age 21 years)  [natural]   4. Elbert Clinton Blasdel,   b. 1888,   d. 1961  (Age 73 years)  [natural]   5. Irvin Sherwood Blasdel,   b. 24 Jun 1890, Miller Township, Dearborn Co, Indiana, USA ,   d. Oct 1976, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn, Indiana, USA  (Age 86 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	11 Oct 2019
  Family ID	F261	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  "Miller Township, and assessor of the same, was born in Dearborn County, December 8, 1848. He is a son of John F. and Mary J. (Hampson) Blasdel, the former born in this county in 1821, son of Enoch Blasdel, the latter, a native of West Virginia, but who came to this county in an early day with her people-John F. was educated in the Cambridge Academy, and after his marriage, taught school a few years, though his chief occupation from his youth up was fanning. He reared eight children: John C. (now of Chicago). Mary S., Sherwood F., William H. Ambrose, Jennie, Paraelia and Albert, nearly all of whom are school teachers. After abandoning the school work, Mr. B. purchased land in Kelso Township, where he resided till 1862, when he entered the service of the government as a member of the Eighty third Indiana Regiment He served about seven months and died in the spring of 1868, of typhoid fever, contracted while acting as hospital steward. His remains were brought home and interred in the Pella Cemetery on the same portion of land on which he was born and reared. Mrs. Blasdel, died in February, 1884, in her sixty-first year. Sherwood Blasdel, with the rest of the family, was brought up on the farm and was educated in the common schools. He was married in 1878 to Elizabeth Kirkwood, a daughter of John and Eliza (McGahan) Kirkwood, her mother and herself both natives of this county. Since his marriage, Mr. Blasdel has been farming and trading, owning a farm of forty acres. He served his first term as township assessor in the spring of 1885, which is sufficient evidence of his good judgment in matters of business as well as his character and popularity as a citizen. Mr. and Mrs. Blasdel have two children, Nora and Arthur." (source: "History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana: Chicago: F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885)

  
  

• Sources

  [S14] Gravestone (year only).