Adiel Sherwood

Sherwood was born in Fort Edward, New York, on October 3, 1791.

His father was major Adiel Sherwood, an officer under Washington at Valley Forge and in the battle of Monmouth.

[2] He introduced and widened the support of the temperance movement after moving to Georgia.

After his farm in Butts County, Georgia was burned by Sherman's troops in the American Civil War, Sherwood moved to Missouri, where he died on August 19, 1879.

One son, Thomas Adiel Sherwood, served as a justice of the Missouri Supreme Court from 1873 to 1902.