The wife, child and mother of Capt. Chas. A. Sherman of Fort
Dodge, Iowa were drowned on the 24th inst., by the sinking of a skiff in which
they were crossing Boone river. Capt. Sherman
is now in Eastern Virginia, performing his duties as Commissary of
Subsistence. The elder lady was the wife
of S. M. Sherman, Esq., Postmaster of Fort Dodge. Both ladies were remarkable for their
intelligence and amiability of character.
The bodies were recovered the same day. – Thus at a single blow has the
gallant Captain been deprived of mother, wife, and only child.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, May 1, 1862, p. 1
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