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- H. Michael Sheets1827 -
- W. Sarah Gray (add)
m. 2 May 1852
Facts and Events
Biography of Michael Sheets
From "History of Clinton County, Indiana", 1886:
Michael Sheets was born in Augusta County, Virginia, August 7, 1827, the eldest son of the preceding. When eight years of age his parents removed to Frankfort, Clinton County, where his youth was spent in assisting his father. In the autumn of 1841 his father removed to his farm in Warren Township. After the first year he attended to all the breaking of the ground, and attended the subscription school three months in the year. He resided with his parents until he was twenty-six years old, and May 2, 1852, was married to Miss Sarah Ann Gray, daughter of Simeon and Lydia (McDonald) Gray, who was born in Darke County, Ohio. Her father died in Shelby County, this State, when she was four years of age. Her mother subsequently married, and in 1849 removed to Clinton County. After his marriage Mr. Sheets resided with his parents one year. He had learned the carpenter's trade of his father, which he followed twelve years. He purchased forty acres of heavily timbered land, upon which he settled in May, 1853, and has since 1864 followed farming. Mr. and Mrs. Sheets have no children except one that they have adopted—Maria C. Poundstone. She came to live with them when she was five months old, and is now married to Philip Martin Beard, of this township. Both are members of the Methodist Protestant chnrch, and politically he is a Republican.
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