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Having lost their five infant sons, Sherman and Mary adopted two girls from the |
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Orphan Train [3, 13]. Sherman had intended to adopt a boy to help with the farm work but |
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ended up adopting two sisters, Jennie and Myrtle McCoy. Later they adopted a girl named Edith, |
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but after Mary McAninch died Sherman took Edith back to the orphanage because he felt unable |
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to care for her by himself. |
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These orphans became good citizens. Myrtle married Lester Coon. Lewellyn Coon, an infant |
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buried at Ringgold cemetery in 1915, is a son of Myrtle and Lester. Jennie married Roy Jerrold |
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Swigart on 3 February 1909. Roy and Jennie were active in Ringgold Evangelical church and were |
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good neighbors and friends of Sherman until they moved to Corvallis, Oregon. Roy and Jennie |
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Swigart in turn adopted three daughters of their own: Edith (19 March 1908 - 22 October 1926), |
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died a very pious young woman and is buried in the north central part of Ringgold cemetery near |
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her McAninch kin [4]; Doris Elaine, and Frieda Belle. The last two girls married, had families |
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and lived at Corvallis, Oregon near Roy and Jennie Swigart. Roy Swigart died 22 November |
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1964 and Jennie died 29 July 1974. Both are buried in Oak Lawn cemetery, Corvallis, Oregon. |
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Mary Jarred McAninch died 4 April 1919 and on 12 August 1920, Sherman married |
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Katherine C. Jarred, a half sister to Mary. This marriage soon ended in divorce on 23 May 1921. |
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Sherman married, 3rd, Lillian Swift Miller at Bethany, Missouri on 7 November 1923. Lillian was |
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a widow without children. Sherman and Lillian had three children: Joseph Eugene, Charles Sherman |
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and Lester Leroy. Sherman moved from his farm in Lotts Creek township, Ringgold county to |
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a farm north of Lamoni, Iowa in Decatur county. He lost this farm and his health during the |
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Depression. The family moved to Lamoni where Sherman was an invalid for about the last nine years |
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of his life, suffering from Parkinson's disease. He is said to have borne his sufferings with patience. |
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Sherman … shares a nice stone in Ringgold cemetery with his first wife Mary L. Jarred McAninch, |
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but Sherman is not buried in Ringgold cemetery. He died 24 April 1944 and is buried in Rose Hill |
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cemetery, Lamoni, Iowa. Lillian McAninch (1891-1959), his third wife, is buried beside him. |
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In the late 1800s and early 1900s the McAninch name was common in Lotts Creek township. |
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There has not been, however, to my knowledge, anyone with that surname living in Ringgold county |
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for many years. [14] [pg. 80] |
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[Footnotes 1., 2., 3., and 4. by Raymond V. Banner] |
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1. The birth of their infant son is recorded in Ringgold County Birth Record Book 1, page 178. |
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2. In Ringgold County, Iowa, Death Record Book 3, page 79, there is listed an Ousy Harlan, a |
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female, dying in Lotts Creek township and buried at Ringgold cemetery. No parents are listed and, |
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and, strangely, there is no death date listed, except that she is listed among 1902 and 1903 deaths. |
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I found no records on the other daughter, S. O. Harlan. [Footnotes pg.78] [and see Note 10 /Frank] |
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Ringgold City, 1844-2002: From First Settlement to Forgotten Community, Raymond V. Banner |
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McAninch Family History NL, v.X.n.3 July 2002 Frank McAninch, Editor page 2002-23 |