Ancestry of General
William Tecumseh Sherman

Union Army - U.S. Civil War

Daniel Sherman

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• • Great-grandfather of William Tecumseh Sherman — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • John Sherman Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Emm Preston   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Aug 1721 
  • Birth Location:
  • Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
  • 20 Aug 1721 
  • Christening Location:
  • Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut 
  • Death Date:
  • 28 Jul 1799 
  • Death Location:
  • Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • South Cemetery, Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mindwell Taylor
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Feb 1744 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Taylor Sherman (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for Daniel Sherman

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Woodbury, p. 95, Birth record for Daniel Sherman.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/09/2013).
  • ³ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1995, Vol. 12, p. 65.
  • ⁴ Woodbury, CT: Deaths 1678-1898, p. 3703, Death record for Daniel Sherman.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 222.
  • ⁶ Sherman, Thomas Townsend, Sherman Genealogy including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England, Some Descendants of the Immigrants . . ., New York: Tobias A. Wright, Printer and Publisher (1920), 149.
  • ⁷ Sherman, William T., Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, 2nd ed., Vol. 1, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1886), 9.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Taylor Sherman", (accessed 05/09/2013).