James William SHERRILL
Birth & Marriage: Marriage Certificates and Tombstone. He was 21 years old when he married Lena Langeheineken in February 1882. His stone said he was born in 1860. He is buried with Martha M. Sherrill, which may have been this third wife, as he was married to Rosa Wright in Sumner County, December 4 1886. His age was listed as 26 and she was 18.
Birth: U.S. Census, 1860, 1870, 1880. 1875 Kansas Census. Marriage: Cowley County Marriage Certificate. Death: Toumbstone Lena was probably born at Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois, as that is where Dr. Clemens Schrader's family lived. The Langeheineken's were near them in Kentucky in the 1850 census. She was married at age 24. Her husband was 21. She died 10 days after giving birth to her second child. The child died four days later. She was about 30 years old. She is buried a Prairie Lawn Cemetery. Lena's first child died the next January when he was almost three years old. Her husband remarried and had three boys.
He married Helena Langeheineken 20 Feb 1882 at Wilmot, Cowley, Kansas . Helena Langeheineken was born at Tazewell, Illinois May 1858 daughter of Dietrich Daniel August Langeheineken and Joanna Maria Carolina Gertrudis Schrader .
They were the parents of 2
children:
Clyde Sherrill
born 3 Mar 1884.
Pansy L. Sherrill
born 1 Jun 1886.
James William Sherrill died 1945 at Parsons, Labette, Kansas .
Helena Langeheineken died 11 Jun 1886 at Wellington, Sumner, Kansas .