General William Tecumseh SHERMAN ^4,6

	Born: 8 Feb 1820, Lancaster, Fairfield Co., OH
	Married: 1 May 1850, Blair House, Washington D.C.
	Died: 1891
	Buried: St. Louis, MO

   General Notes:

William Tecumseh Sherman was the seventh child of Charles Sherman and Mary Hoyt Sherman. He was born in Lancaster, Ohio, in a small frame house located next door to the large Hon. Thomas Ewing (255) home. Sherman's came to Lancaster just before the War of 1812 because Charles' father, Judge Charles Taylor Sherman of Norwalk, Connecticut, had been given, as indemnity for property lost in Connecticut in the Revolutionary War, title to 2 sections of land in the Western Reserve. Charles had been admitted to the bar in 1810 and married Mary Hoyt shortly thereafter. They came by horseback and covered wagon with their 1st son Charles. Their second child, Elizabeth, was born 10 days after they reached Lancaster. When Charles died in 1829, Mary was left with eleven children. Thomas Ewing offered to take the "smartest" of the boys to raise as his own. Although William was never legally adopted by the Ewing family, he lived with them from the age of nine.

In 1836, Ewing obtained "Cump's" appointment to West Pointe. In 1850, Cump married Ewing's daughter, Ellen, in a ceremony at Blair House in Washington D.C. during which time Thomas Ewing held the post of Secretary of the Interior. The marriage was attended by President Taylor. He and Ellen had eight children.

William T. Sherman's Civil War record was climaxed by the Atlanta campaign and the "March to the Sea," bringing him the adulation of the North and the animosity of the South. After the war, he held the post of commanding general of the army from 1869-1883. Declining to run for presidency, he spent his remaining years writing his memoirs and touring the speakers' circuit. He died in New York in 1891 and was buried in St. Louis, where his grave is marked by a simple shaft of his own design.

William's brother, John, also achieved fame which nearly equalled that of his older brother. He studied and practiced law in Mansfield, where he launched his political career at an early age, becoming a Congressman (1855-1861), U.S. Senator (1861-1881), and Secretary of Treasury (1877-1881), and Secretary of State (1897-1898). The Sherman Antitrust Act carries his name.

   Marriage Information:

William married Eleanor "Ellen" Boyle EWING, daughter of Hon. Thomas EWING and Maria Wills BOYLE, on 1 May 1850 in Blair House, Washington D.C.(Eleanor "Ellen" Boyle EWING was born on 4 Oct 1824 in Ohio ^30,32, died on 28 Nov 1888 ^30,32 and was buried in St.Louis, MO.)