Ancestry of
James Sherman

27th U.S. Vice-President

Willett Helme Sherman

View famous kin of Willett Helme Sherman

• • Grandfather of James Sherman — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Robert Sherman 
  • Mother:
  • Honor Brown   
  • Birth Date:
  • 31 Jan 1792 
  • Birth Location:
  • Exeter, Washington, Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Dec 1868 
  • Death Location:
  • Vernon, Oneida, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Catherine Ann Schoolcraft
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Mar 1816 
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  • Child:

  Richard Updike Sherman (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources give South Kingston, Rhode Island, as the birthplace of Willett Sherman.

• Additional marriages for Willett Helme Sherman

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  • Spouse:
  • Emily Church
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 Sep 1834
  • Marriage Location:
  • Vernon, Oneida, New York

• Sources for Willett Helme Sherman

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A100997.
  • ² The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 14, New York: James T. White and Company (1910), 406-407.
  • ³ Hatfield, Mark O., Vice Presidents of the United States, 1789-1993, Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office (1997), 325-332.
  • ⁴ Sherman, Roy V., Some of the Descendants of Philip Sherman, the First Secretary of Rhode Island, Akron, Ohio: Unknown (1968), 558, 563.
  • ⁵ Stratton, Bertha L., Transatlantic Shermans, Staten Island, New York: Bertha L. Stratton (1969), 172.
  • ⁶ Talcott, S. V., Genealogical Notes of New York and New England Families, Vol. 1, Albany, New York: Weed, Parsons, and Company (1883), 702, 706-707.