The following is from a newspaper article found at the Blue Earth Co. Historical Society. It had the notation Mankato Free Press & Weekly Review and the date of 12-12-1919 handwritten on the copy of the article.
DEATH OF PORTER G. SHELDON
Former Resident of Mankato Died at Marshall, Minn. (I think this was an error...he was a former resident of Marshall,MN, but he died in Gentry, Arkansas.)
The following obituary of Porter G. Sheldon was recently published in The Marshall News-Messenger. Mr. Sheldon resided in Mankato for a number of years and had aquired many friends who will be grieved to hear of his demise.
"Mrs. C.E. Persons received word the first of the week informing her of the death of Mrs. Will Gary's father, Porter G. Sheldon, at Gentry, Ark. Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon will be remembered by older residents of Marshall having made their home here in the early days. While Mr. Sheldon was quite elderly, he was in robust health and his death came as a shock to all those who knew him. Mrs. W. Gary who has been making her home with her parents since the death of her husband several years ago(her husband died in 1912), had just arrived in Mankato to visit with relatives and friends when she received the unexpected news of her father's death and she returned immediately to Gentry. Besides his wife, four sons and two daughters are left to mourn his loss."
Gentry Journal-Advance
November 28, 1919
SHELDON, P.G. – P.G. Sheldon died at his home in this city Monday morning. His death was sudden as he was apparently in his usual health the day before, hence it was a great shock to his family and friends. His children, who were all away in other states, were notified and arrived here Tuesday or Wednesday. The funeral was held from the family residence yesterday afternoon conducted by Revs. Brown and Martin and the remains shipped to Electra, Texas where several of his children reside. Mr. Sheldon has lived here for about seventeen years and was a man who was always cheerful and happy and hence his friends were many. He was a member of the Methodist church and truly a good man in every respect. We express our deepest sympathy to the bereaved family.
(W.J. Sheldon, L.E. Sheldon and Bert Sheldon came in from Electra, Texas Tuesday, having been called here on account of the death of their father. Mrs. Emma Gary, who was in Minnesota, and Mrs. Ray Carpenter, the two daughters, came as quickly as they could after hearing the sad news.)...From the Gentry newspaper
Notes from Shirley Hemingway:
According to Census records Porter Sheldon was born in 1836 in New York. He married Caroline(aka Carrie) Hemingway(1840-1935)The 1880 census finds the family living in Marshall, MN and Porter being listed as a farmer. Children: Leslie, Emma, Etta, Velon, Albert, Mary, Ward & Clyde. Prior to being in Marshall the family was living in the southeastern Minnesota area. Daughter Etta was said to have been born in Eyota,MN(1863) and son Ward was born in Berlin, MN.(1874) Son Clyde was born in Marshall(1880). The family moved to South Dakota where they ran the Sheldon Hotel. I believe they lived in Harold or around that area. I think they were in South Dakota in the 1890's.
It appears many in the Sheldon family next moved to Electra, Texas. It was there that Ward Sheldon struck oil. Porter Sheldon died in 1919 and is buried in the Electra Cemetery along with his sons Leslie, Albert, Ward and Clyde and their spouses. Caroline Sheldon moved to Gentry, Arkansas after her husband's death.(Caroline's brother Joseph and her sister Sarah Jane Stout lived in Gentry) and she is buried in the Gentry Cemetery. (Update: Porter Sheldon was living in Gentry, Arkansas at the time of his death but he was buried in Electra, Texas.It appears both Porter and Caroline moved to Gentry, Arkansas.)
Etta Roberts shared memories of her grandfather Sheldon and his family...
"Grandpa Sheldon had the experience where he got kicked by a horse. And they took him into Rochester and that was his first experience with the Mayos."
"He had been in the war and had been shot in the Kenasow Mountains in Georgia...he was on the battlefield a long time...he took care of other soldiers after he was shot right through the jaw...he could never have dentures because his mouth was a little crooked."
"Grandpa Sheldon had a keen sense of humor. He was always telling jokes. He was a very happy person. He ran the hotel. I remember the little cubby hole in the office...he'd keep candy in there which I thought was a great treat. That old hotel was quite a place."
"All the Sheldons were very musical. The hotel was a gathering place in town. Everybody went there for everything. That's where the young people gathered. Uncle Leslie, the oldest one, played the violin and Mate played the piano...the rest of them fit in somewhere. I remember my grandmother telling that she sold a cow to buy that piano."
Notes from Shirley Hemingway: Etta Poberts tells the story of how her mother (Etta Sheldon Eakins) died a few days after her birth. Her Grandpa Sheldon "came right over and fed me with a medicine dropper. He'd take a spoon and put some whiskey on it and burn off the whiskey and feed that to me...that with rice water saved my life". (Etta weighed 2 pounds 1/2 ounces at birth.) You could tell that her Grandpa Sheldon was very special to her.
Before I even started searching in to the Hemingway history, my husband's grandmother Luella Hemingway had given me a couple of family possessions. One was an old metal knife and fork which she had mounted on a burlap covered board and put in a frame. She told me the utensils belonged to Caroline (Hemingway) and Porter Sheldon. She also gave me a white plate on which flowers were drawn. Grandma Luella didn't give me much of a story about the plate but now I am wondering if the plate was from the Sheldon family. Visiting with Etta Roberts, she told me..."The Sheldon girls all had the gift of being able to paint. That was the great item in those days. They all painted pictures of flowers and stuff like that...painted on china."
DEATH OF PORTER G. SHELDON
Former Resident of Mankato Died at Marshall, Minn. (I think this was an error...he was a former resident of Marshall,MN, but he died in Gentry, Arkansas.)
The following obituary of Porter G. Sheldon was recently published in The Marshall News-Messenger. Mr. Sheldon resided in Mankato for a number of years and had aquired many friends who will be grieved to hear of his demise.
"Mrs. C.E. Persons received word the first of the week informing her of the death of Mrs. Will Gary's father, Porter G. Sheldon, at Gentry, Ark. Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon will be remembered by older residents of Marshall having made their home here in the early days. While Mr. Sheldon was quite elderly, he was in robust health and his death came as a shock to all those who knew him. Mrs. W. Gary who has been making her home with her parents since the death of her husband several years ago(her husband died in 1912), had just arrived in Mankato to visit with relatives and friends when she received the unexpected news of her father's death and she returned immediately to Gentry. Besides his wife, four sons and two daughters are left to mourn his loss."
Gentry Journal-Advance
November 28, 1919
SHELDON, P.G. – P.G. Sheldon died at his home in this city Monday morning. His death was sudden as he was apparently in his usual health the day before, hence it was a great shock to his family and friends. His children, who were all away in other states, were notified and arrived here Tuesday or Wednesday. The funeral was held from the family residence yesterday afternoon conducted by Revs. Brown and Martin and the remains shipped to Electra, Texas where several of his children reside. Mr. Sheldon has lived here for about seventeen years and was a man who was always cheerful and happy and hence his friends were many. He was a member of the Methodist church and truly a good man in every respect. We express our deepest sympathy to the bereaved family.
(W.J. Sheldon, L.E. Sheldon and Bert Sheldon came in from Electra, Texas Tuesday, having been called here on account of the death of their father. Mrs. Emma Gary, who was in Minnesota, and Mrs. Ray Carpenter, the two daughters, came as quickly as they could after hearing the sad news.)...From the Gentry newspaper
Notes from Shirley Hemingway:
According to Census records Porter Sheldon was born in 1836 in New York. He married Caroline(aka Carrie) Hemingway(1840-1935)The 1880 census finds the family living in Marshall, MN and Porter being listed as a farmer. Children: Leslie, Emma, Etta, Velon, Albert, Mary, Ward & Clyde. Prior to being in Marshall the family was living in the southeastern Minnesota area. Daughter Etta was said to have been born in Eyota,MN(1863) and son Ward was born in Berlin, MN.(1874) Son Clyde was born in Marshall(1880). The family moved to South Dakota where they ran the Sheldon Hotel. I believe they lived in Harold or around that area. I think they were in South Dakota in the 1890's.
It appears many in the Sheldon family next moved to Electra, Texas. It was there that Ward Sheldon struck oil. Porter Sheldon died in 1919 and is buried in the Electra Cemetery along with his sons Leslie, Albert, Ward and Clyde and their spouses. Caroline Sheldon moved to Gentry, Arkansas after her husband's death.(Caroline's brother Joseph and her sister Sarah Jane Stout lived in Gentry) and she is buried in the Gentry Cemetery. (Update: Porter Sheldon was living in Gentry, Arkansas at the time of his death but he was buried in Electra, Texas.It appears both Porter and Caroline moved to Gentry, Arkansas.)
Etta Roberts shared memories of her grandfather Sheldon and his family...
"Grandpa Sheldon had the experience where he got kicked by a horse. And they took him into Rochester and that was his first experience with the Mayos."
"He had been in the war and had been shot in the Kenasow Mountains in Georgia...he was on the battlefield a long time...he took care of other soldiers after he was shot right through the jaw...he could never have dentures because his mouth was a little crooked."
"Grandpa Sheldon had a keen sense of humor. He was always telling jokes. He was a very happy person. He ran the hotel. I remember the little cubby hole in the office...he'd keep candy in there which I thought was a great treat. That old hotel was quite a place."
"All the Sheldons were very musical. The hotel was a gathering place in town. Everybody went there for everything. That's where the young people gathered. Uncle Leslie, the oldest one, played the violin and Mate played the piano...the rest of them fit in somewhere. I remember my grandmother telling that she sold a cow to buy that piano."
Notes from Shirley Hemingway: Etta Poberts tells the story of how her mother (Etta Sheldon Eakins) died a few days after her birth. Her Grandpa Sheldon "came right over and fed me with a medicine dropper. He'd take a spoon and put some whiskey on it and burn off the whiskey and feed that to me...that with rice water saved my life". (Etta weighed 2 pounds 1/2 ounces at birth.) You could tell that her Grandpa Sheldon was very special to her.
Before I even started searching in to the Hemingway history, my husband's grandmother Luella Hemingway had given me a couple of family possessions. One was an old metal knife and fork which she had mounted on a burlap covered board and put in a frame. She told me the utensils belonged to Caroline (Hemingway) and Porter Sheldon. She also gave me a white plate on which flowers were drawn. Grandma Luella didn't give me much of a story about the plate but now I am wondering if the plate was from the Sheldon family. Visiting with Etta Roberts, she told me..."The Sheldon girls all had the gift of being able to paint. That was the great item in those days. They all painted pictures of flowers and stuff like that...painted on china."
The following is from a newspaper article found at the Blue Earth Co. Historical Society. It had the notation Mankato Free Press & Weekly Review and the date of 12-12-1919 handwritten on the copy of the article.
DEATH OF PORTER G. SHELDON
Former Resident of Mankato Died at Marshall, Minn. (I think this was an error...he was a former resident of Marshall,MN, but he died in Gentry, Arkansas.)
The following obituary of Porter G. Sheldon was recently published in The Marshall News-Messenger. Mr. Sheldon resided in Mankato for a number of years and had aquired many friends who will be grieved to hear of his demise.
"Mrs. C.E. Persons received word the first of the week informing her of the death of Mrs. Will Gary's father, Porter G. Sheldon, at Gentry, Ark. Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon will be remembered by older residents of Marshall having made their home here in the early days. While Mr. Sheldon was quite elderly, he was in robust health and his death came as a shock to all those who knew him. Mrs. W. Gary who has been making her home with her parents since the death of her husband several years ago(her husband died in 1912), had just arrived in Mankato to visit with relatives and friends when she received the unexpected news of her father's death and she returned immediately to Gentry. Besides his wife, four sons and two daughters are left to mourn his loss."
Gentry Journal-Advance
November 28, 1919
SHELDON, P.G. – P.G. Sheldon died at his home in this city Monday morning. His death was sudden as he was apparently in his usual health the day before, hence it was a great shock to his family and friends. His children, who were all away in other states, were notified and arrived here Tuesday or Wednesday. The funeral was held from the family residence yesterday afternoon conducted by Revs. Brown and Martin and the remains shipped to Electra, Texas where several of his children reside. Mr. Sheldon has lived here for about seventeen years and was a man who was always cheerful and happy and hence his friends were many. He was a member of the Methodist church and truly a good man in every respect. We express our deepest sympathy to the bereaved family.
(W.J. Sheldon, L.E. Sheldon and Bert Sheldon came in from Electra, Texas Tuesday, having been called here on account of the death of their father. Mrs. Emma Gary, who was in Minnesota, and Mrs. Ray Carpenter, the two daughters, came as quickly as they could after hearing the sad news.)...From the Gentry newspaper
Notes from Shirley Hemingway:
According to Census records Porter Sheldon was born in 1836 in New York. He married Caroline(aka Carrie) Hemingway(1840-1935)The 1880 census finds the family living in Marshall, MN and Porter being listed as a farmer. Children: Leslie, Emma, Etta, Velon, Albert, Mary, Ward & Clyde. Prior to being in Marshall the family was living in the southeastern Minnesota area. Daughter Etta was said to have been born in Eyota,MN(1863) and son Ward was born in Berlin, MN.(1874) Son Clyde was born in Marshall(1880). The family moved to South Dakota where they ran the Sheldon Hotel. I believe they lived in Harold or around that area. I think they were in South Dakota in the 1890's.
It appears many in the Sheldon family next moved to Electra, Texas. It was there that Ward Sheldon struck oil. Porter Sheldon died in 1919 and is buried in the Electra Cemetery along with his sons Leslie, Albert, Ward and Clyde and their spouses. Caroline Sheldon moved to Gentry, Arkansas after her husband's death.(Caroline's brother Joseph and her sister Sarah Jane Stout lived in Gentry) and she is buried in the Gentry Cemetery. (Update: Porter Sheldon was living in Gentry, Arkansas at the time of his death but he was buried in Electra, Texas.It appears both Porter and Caroline moved to Gentry, Arkansas.)
Etta Roberts shared memories of her grandfather Sheldon and his family...
"Grandpa Sheldon had the experience where he got kicked by a horse. And they took him into Rochester and that was his first experience with the Mayos."
"He had been in the war and had been shot in the Kenasow Mountains in Georgia...he was on the battlefield a long time...he took care of other soldiers after he was shot right through the jaw...he could never have dentures because his mouth was a little crooked."
"Grandpa Sheldon had a keen sense of humor. He was always telling jokes. He was a very happy person. He ran the hotel. I remember the little cubby hole in the office...he'd keep candy in there which I thought was a great treat. That old hotel was quite a place."
"All the Sheldons were very musical. The hotel was a gathering place in town. Everybody went there for everything. That's where the young people gathered. Uncle Leslie, the oldest one, played the violin and Mate played the piano...the rest of them fit in somewhere. I remember my grandmother telling that she sold a cow to buy that piano."
Notes from Shirley Hemingway: Etta Poberts tells the story of how her mother (Etta Sheldon Eakins) died a few days after her birth. Her Grandpa Sheldon "came right over and fed me with a medicine dropper. He'd take a spoon and put some whiskey on it and burn off the whiskey and feed that to me...that with rice water saved my life". (Etta weighed 2 pounds 1/2 ounces at birth.) You could tell that her Grandpa Sheldon was very special to her.
Before I even started searching in to the Hemingway history, my husband's grandmother Luella Hemingway had given me a couple of family possessions. One was an old metal knife and fork which she had mounted on a burlap covered board and put in a frame. She told me the utensils belonged to Caroline (Hemingway) and Porter Sheldon. She also gave me a white plate on which flowers were drawn. Grandma Luella didn't give me much of a story about the plate but now I am wondering if the plate was from the Sheldon family. Visiting with Etta Roberts, she told me..."The Sheldon girls all had the gift of being able to paint. That was the great item in those days. They all painted pictures of flowers and stuff like that...painted on china."
DEATH OF PORTER G. SHELDON
Former Resident of Mankato Died at Marshall, Minn. (I think this was an error...he was a former resident of Marshall,MN, but he died in Gentry, Arkansas.)
The following obituary of Porter G. Sheldon was recently published in The Marshall News-Messenger. Mr. Sheldon resided in Mankato for a number of years and had aquired many friends who will be grieved to hear of his demise.
"Mrs. C.E. Persons received word the first of the week informing her of the death of Mrs. Will Gary's father, Porter G. Sheldon, at Gentry, Ark. Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon will be remembered by older residents of Marshall having made their home here in the early days. While Mr. Sheldon was quite elderly, he was in robust health and his death came as a shock to all those who knew him. Mrs. W. Gary who has been making her home with her parents since the death of her husband several years ago(her husband died in 1912), had just arrived in Mankato to visit with relatives and friends when she received the unexpected news of her father's death and she returned immediately to Gentry. Besides his wife, four sons and two daughters are left to mourn his loss."
Gentry Journal-Advance
November 28, 1919
SHELDON, P.G. – P.G. Sheldon died at his home in this city Monday morning. His death was sudden as he was apparently in his usual health the day before, hence it was a great shock to his family and friends. His children, who were all away in other states, were notified and arrived here Tuesday or Wednesday. The funeral was held from the family residence yesterday afternoon conducted by Revs. Brown and Martin and the remains shipped to Electra, Texas where several of his children reside. Mr. Sheldon has lived here for about seventeen years and was a man who was always cheerful and happy and hence his friends were many. He was a member of the Methodist church and truly a good man in every respect. We express our deepest sympathy to the bereaved family.
(W.J. Sheldon, L.E. Sheldon and Bert Sheldon came in from Electra, Texas Tuesday, having been called here on account of the death of their father. Mrs. Emma Gary, who was in Minnesota, and Mrs. Ray Carpenter, the two daughters, came as quickly as they could after hearing the sad news.)...From the Gentry newspaper
Notes from Shirley Hemingway:
According to Census records Porter Sheldon was born in 1836 in New York. He married Caroline(aka Carrie) Hemingway(1840-1935)The 1880 census finds the family living in Marshall, MN and Porter being listed as a farmer. Children: Leslie, Emma, Etta, Velon, Albert, Mary, Ward & Clyde. Prior to being in Marshall the family was living in the southeastern Minnesota area. Daughter Etta was said to have been born in Eyota,MN(1863) and son Ward was born in Berlin, MN.(1874) Son Clyde was born in Marshall(1880). The family moved to South Dakota where they ran the Sheldon Hotel. I believe they lived in Harold or around that area. I think they were in South Dakota in the 1890's.
It appears many in the Sheldon family next moved to Electra, Texas. It was there that Ward Sheldon struck oil. Porter Sheldon died in 1919 and is buried in the Electra Cemetery along with his sons Leslie, Albert, Ward and Clyde and their spouses. Caroline Sheldon moved to Gentry, Arkansas after her husband's death.(Caroline's brother Joseph and her sister Sarah Jane Stout lived in Gentry) and she is buried in the Gentry Cemetery. (Update: Porter Sheldon was living in Gentry, Arkansas at the time of his death but he was buried in Electra, Texas.It appears both Porter and Caroline moved to Gentry, Arkansas.)
Etta Roberts shared memories of her grandfather Sheldon and his family...
"Grandpa Sheldon had the experience where he got kicked by a horse. And they took him into Rochester and that was his first experience with the Mayos."
"He had been in the war and had been shot in the Kenasow Mountains in Georgia...he was on the battlefield a long time...he took care of other soldiers after he was shot right through the jaw...he could never have dentures because his mouth was a little crooked."
"Grandpa Sheldon had a keen sense of humor. He was always telling jokes. He was a very happy person. He ran the hotel. I remember the little cubby hole in the office...he'd keep candy in there which I thought was a great treat. That old hotel was quite a place."
"All the Sheldons were very musical. The hotel was a gathering place in town. Everybody went there for everything. That's where the young people gathered. Uncle Leslie, the oldest one, played the violin and Mate played the piano...the rest of them fit in somewhere. I remember my grandmother telling that she sold a cow to buy that piano."
Notes from Shirley Hemingway: Etta Poberts tells the story of how her mother (Etta Sheldon Eakins) died a few days after her birth. Her Grandpa Sheldon "came right over and fed me with a medicine dropper. He'd take a spoon and put some whiskey on it and burn off the whiskey and feed that to me...that with rice water saved my life". (Etta weighed 2 pounds 1/2 ounces at birth.) You could tell that her Grandpa Sheldon was very special to her.
Before I even started searching in to the Hemingway history, my husband's grandmother Luella Hemingway had given me a couple of family possessions. One was an old metal knife and fork which she had mounted on a burlap covered board and put in a frame. She told me the utensils belonged to Caroline (Hemingway) and Porter Sheldon. She also gave me a white plate on which flowers were drawn. Grandma Luella didn't give me much of a story about the plate but now I am wondering if the plate was from the Sheldon family. Visiting with Etta Roberts, she told me..."The Sheldon girls all had the gift of being able to paint. That was the great item in those days. They all painted pictures of flowers and stuff like that...painted on china."
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