Sherwood
Rev. and Mrs. Sherwood Married Fifty-Five Years Jan. 18, 1917 Democrat
To very few is it given to live a married life of five years more than half a century, yet that is exactly the distinction that cam be claimed by Rev. and Mrs. J. F. Sherwood of this city. They were united in marriage November 21, 1861. The happy event took place at Rock Hill, now Frisco, Collin County. Rev. Tom Mastern saying he ceremony that united in marriage these two. The bride of fifty-five years ago at this wedding was Miss Mary A. Rogers, a native of Tennessee, but has lived in Texas since 1850. One of the witnesses of this marriage now living was a sister of Mrs. Sherwood, Mrs. Stacy, now residing in Dallas.
Re. Sherwood was a native of Indiana, born July 9, 1842, but has lived in Texas since 1847 when he came with his parents to what was then Kingsboro, now the town of Kaufman. Rev. Sherwood's father was a missionary to the Indians in Indiana and it so happened that the now venerable minister was born in that State, his ancestors being from North Carolina.
Rev. Sherwood joined the conference in Sherman in 1871, Bishop Marvin giving him his first appointment. Bishop McTyeire ordaining him deacon and Bishop Doggett elder. The lot of a Methodist minister at that time was not an easy one. Pay was little and uncertain and the preacher who saw a hundred dollars a years in money those days was lucky, indeed. Charges were scattering and travel was mostly on horseback with roads few and far between. if times were hard financially, the spirituality of the Church was marked and seldom have the fires burned so brightly upon the altars of the Church a then. Preachers thought nothing of preaching an hour and congregations listened eagerly.
Rev. Sherwood has been pre-eminently successful in his ministry and it is often said that no minister in the bounds of the conference has had more conversions than he. That he is yet able to preach effectively in spite of his more than three-score and ten years is shown by the fact that he last year served as pastor on the College Mound circuit, having taken the work to all a vacancy caused by a resignation. on this work, as on his others, he was signally successful.
In his work as preacher, Rev. Sherwood has filled the following charges: Caddo Mission, Lone Oak Circuit, Sulphur Springs Circuit, Kellyville Circuit, Sulphur Springs Station, Grape Vine Circuit, Ladonia Station, Wylie Springs, Annona, Woodland, Norman Okla. transferring to the Indian Mission Conference; presiding elder Wynnewood District Durant Station, Quinlan, having transferred back to the North Texas Conference; Bailey, Brookston, Bonham Street, Paris; Kirkland and Maple Avenue, Dallas; College Mound. In 1912 he took the superannuated relation and took up hi home in Terrell in the conference home established here by the conference.
"We are grateful," said Rev. Sherwood speaking for himself and his wife, "to the splendid people of the town who have ministered unto us in so many various ways. They have been kindness itself to us and our appreciation is very strong."
Rev. and Mrs. Sherwood have declined to grow old and are as young in heart as are most people less than half their years. Household duties take up her time, as the spotless condition of the home so plainly shows. He delights to work in the garden and their flowers every year are the admiration of every passerby, blooming in the greatest profusion. The house in fact, in the proper season, is surrounded by flowers showing the care taken of them by the venerable minister.
Both he and his wife are in the highest esteem of all who know them and their presence has been a benediction to every one with whom they come in contact. All unite in wishing them many more years of the happiness that has characterized the married life of these two for more than half a century.
To very few is it given to live a married life of five years more than half a century, yet that is exactly the distinction that cam be claimed by Rev. and Mrs. J. F. Sherwood of this city. They were united in marriage November 21, 1861. The happy event took place at Rock Hill, now Frisco, Collin County. Rev. Tom Mastern saying he ceremony that united in marriage these two. The bride of fifty-five years ago at this wedding was Miss Mary A. Rogers, a native of Tennessee, but has lived in Texas since 1850. One of the witnesses of this marriage now living was a sister of Mrs. Sherwood, Mrs. Stacy, now residing in Dallas.
Re. Sherwood was a native of Indiana, born July 9, 1842, but has lived in Texas since 1847 when he came with his parents to what was then Kingsboro, now the town of Kaufman. Rev. Sherwood's father was a missionary to the Indians in Indiana and it so happened that the now venerable minister was born in that State, his ancestors being from North Carolina.
Rev. Sherwood joined the conference in Sherman in 1871, Bishop Marvin giving him his first appointment. Bishop McTyeire ordaining him deacon and Bishop Doggett elder. The lot of a Methodist minister at that time was not an easy one. Pay was little and uncertain and the preacher who saw a hundred dollars a years in money those days was lucky, indeed. Charges were scattering and travel was mostly on horseback with roads few and far between. if times were hard financially, the spirituality of the Church was marked and seldom have the fires burned so brightly upon the altars of the Church a then. Preachers thought nothing of preaching an hour and congregations listened eagerly.
Rev. Sherwood has been pre-eminently successful in his ministry and it is often said that no minister in the bounds of the conference has had more conversions than he. That he is yet able to preach effectively in spite of his more than three-score and ten years is shown by the fact that he last year served as pastor on the College Mound circuit, having taken the work to all a vacancy caused by a resignation. on this work, as on his others, he was signally successful.
In his work as preacher, Rev. Sherwood has filled the following charges: Caddo Mission, Lone Oak Circuit, Sulphur Springs Circuit, Kellyville Circuit, Sulphur Springs Station, Grape Vine Circuit, Ladonia Station, Wylie Springs, Annona, Woodland, Norman Okla. transferring to the Indian Mission Conference; presiding elder Wynnewood District Durant Station, Quinlan, having transferred back to the North Texas Conference; Bailey, Brookston, Bonham Street, Paris; Kirkland and Maple Avenue, Dallas; College Mound. In 1912 he took the superannuated relation and took up hi home in Terrell in the conference home established here by the conference.
"We are grateful," said Rev. Sherwood speaking for himself and his wife, "to the splendid people of the town who have ministered unto us in so many various ways. They have been kindness itself to us and our appreciation is very strong."
Rev. and Mrs. Sherwood have declined to grow old and are as young in heart as are most people less than half their years. Household duties take up her time, as the spotless condition of the home so plainly shows. He delights to work in the garden and their flowers every year are the admiration of every passerby, blooming in the greatest profusion. The house in fact, in the proper season, is surrounded by flowers showing the care taken of them by the venerable minister.
Both he and his wife are in the highest esteem of all who know them and their presence has been a benediction to every one with whom they come in contact. All unite in wishing them many more years of the happiness that has characterized the married life of these two for more than half a century.
