Notes for Mary Polly EDWARDS
Source: Surname of Mary/Polly, christening of son, Evert at RDC Jerusalem.
Date of death based on remarriage and birth of Abraham.
Henry David Sherman
1824 New Milford CT
1917 Cedar Rapids IA
This is an unpublished 84 page booklet created by Edith Sherman Averill in August 1936.
It is an original typed copy in a three ring binder
It was a treasured part of the estate of Sara Sherman, the youngest daughter of Henry David Sherman.
Pages 16 - 20
" left the packet at Rome to go on to their home in Westmoreland, New York, I was interested enough to ask if I might write to her.
When Mother and I reached Albany we stopped for an over-night visit with relatives named Sigsby. Mother's mother was born Lucy Edwards; Lucy's sister, Polly, had married a man named Sigsby and moved to Albany; it was the family of Polly's son that we visited. (The second day after we left, Albany had a terrible fire; it was very dry and there was a high wind.)
I had not been in good health for some time; indeed as I look back there was a good deal of what was called malaria and ague and fever in my early experience. It seems probable that one reason for these illnesses was lack of a properly balanced diet. One of the most severe attacks I had was some years later when a series of boils ended by an infection settling in one knee which has always since been slightly stiffened and one leg has been a trifle shorter than the other. The result of this was that I was rejected when I tried, to enlist for service in the Civil War. "
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