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1862, but the War, which delayed so 

 many love matches, came on with all its 

 trials and anxieties. Taking her por- 

 tion of the burden laid on so many 

 Southern women, she learned to card, 

 spin and weave, make palmetto hats, 

 and do various kinds of knitting. After 

 nearly four years of betrothal, she and 

 her aiBanced were married, on Jan. 15, 

 1866, it being her 23rd birthday. The 

 fruit of this happy union was only one 

 child, a son, Charles H., born Nov. 11, 

 1866. 



In 1868 the cruel hand of Death 

 snatched away the beloved husband and 

 father, leaving her with her child to 

 rear and educate, and nobly has she per- 

 formed the duty. 



The War had destroyed the fortunes 

 of Mr. Sherman, and at his death she 

 was left with only a good sized tract of 

 unimproved laud, a comfortable box- 

 house, 234 acres of land under fence, 

 and a few head of horses, cattle and 

 hogs. Mrs. Sherman had never been 

 healthy, even when a girl, but being 

 possessed with an indomitable will, and 

 ever-present energy, good judgment, fine 

 executive ability, and the grand stimulus 

 to action — a mother's love, she suc- 

 ceeded in bringing everything upon her 

 farm to an improved condition, making 

 things pay where many men would have 

 given up in despair. 



She devoted a great deal of her time 

 to out-door life, looking carefully after 

 her stock, not only for the sake of mak- 

 ing them profitable, but from a womanly 

 kindness of feeling toward everything 

 dependent upon her for food and shelter. 



Just as she had succeeded in placing 

 a portion of her land in cultivation, and 

 fenced for pasture, a fire destroyed 

 7,000 rails, and all the grass, causing 

 also the loss of ten cows. She could not 

 bear to let their motherless calves die, 

 so having other cows with young calves, 

 she gave one calf away, and made the 

 nine cows rear 18 calves. This inci- 

 dent is mentioned to show her ingenuity 

 and perseverance under difficulties. 



After the fire, she redoubled her en- 

 ergies, had rails split, and her fence re- 

 built. In 1875 she leased her farm for 

 a term of years at .'$200 per annum, and 

 moved to Salado, Bell county, to educate 

 her son. Having had but few educa- 

 tional advantages, she pursued her 

 studies at home, finally teaching several 

 elementary schools, and had her son 

 well advanced by her own training be- 

 fore sending him to the College here. 



In the fail of 1879, she purchased one 

 colony of common black bees in a box- 

 hive. From this small beginning has 



arisen perhaps one among the best api- 

 aries in the State. Mrs. Sherman Ital- 

 ianized her bees by introducing Italian 

 queens into her colonies of black bees. 

 She now uses the movable-frame hive, 

 and began the season's work in 1888 

 with 40 colonies, and secured 6,000 

 pounds of honey, mostly extracted, and 

 100 pounds of wax. 



Besides making a success with bees, 

 Mrs. Sherman raised fine chickens that 

 year, having 75 choice Houdans. Be- 

 sides this out-of-doors work, she has 

 done her own household work, cooking, 

 etc. She has shipped full colonies of 

 bees to several counties in Texas, and 

 Houdan chickens and eggs all over 

 Texas and into Arkansas. Mrs. Sher- 

 man manages her own business, sends 

 anywhere for whatever she wants, hav- 

 ing had 100 bee-hives shipped at one 

 time from New York. These came 

 " knocked down," but she put them to- 

 gether and painted them to suit her own 

 taste. 



Mrs. Sherman has a national reputa- 

 tion as a successful bee-keeper, was 

 represented at the World's Exposition 

 at Paris, and also at the Texas Spring 

 Palace at Fort Worth. The agent of 

 the United States government made a 

 special request of her to furnish samples 

 of all the different kinds of honey she 

 produced, together with a photograph 

 of herself, so she sent the latter and a 

 picture of her apiary 'taken from differ- 

 ent views, also four buckets of honey, 

 namely, red daisy, horehound, horse- 

 mint, and silver-weed. 



At the death of her husband Mrs. 

 Sherman had been appointed adminis- 

 tratrix of the estate, and guardian of 

 her child. When he became of age she 

 found, on reviewing her business record, 

 that she had earned about $640 per 

 annum during his minority. She always 

 kept a strictly itemized account of her 

 income and expenditures. She spared 

 no pains, labor or expense upon her 

 son's education. She sent him to 

 Louisville, Ky., to attend medical lec- 

 tures, where he graduated with high 

 honors in a class of 806 students, tak- 

 ing two gold medals, and receiving the 

 appointment of resident physician of 

 the Louisiville City Hospital. From 

 there this determined, noble mother sent 

 her boy to New York for more thorough 

 instruction in surgery and general prac- 

 tice. Well and faithfully has she ful- 

 filled the trust the dying father left her, 

 and now her son. Dr. C. H. Sherman, is 

 in possession of a fine practice in a large 

 city in Texas. 



Mrs. Sherman has also found time"to 



