WILLIAM HEROD




Born: Virginia

Died: Columbus, Bartholomew Co, Indiana

Buried:

Service: Soldier in the Revolution

Proof: See notes below

Married:

Children:
  • William   b. 31 March 1801, Bourbon Co, KY   d. 20 October 1871, Columbus, IN
         Indiana State Representative (1829-1831, 1844-1845), Indiana State Senate (1831-1833, 1848-1851)
         U.S. Representative from Indiana 6th District (1837-1839); Presidential Elector for Indiana (1840)
         married Cassandra Wingate, b. Hamilton, Butler Co, OH   d. 1864. (see notes below)


    • Directions:

    Revolutionary Soldiers Buried In Indiana
    by Margaret R. Waters
    page 118

    HEROD, WILLIAM      Bartholomew
    b. Va.; mar.; chn. (at least): William, b. Bourbon Co., Ky.; d. 1871, Columbus, Ind., ae. 71; m. Cassandra Wingate, b. Hamilton, Butler Co., O.; d. 1864, ae. 54 (dau. of brig.-Gen. John Wingate & 1st wife). "William Herod...was born in Virginia, of an agricultural family that owned large estates. He served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. In the very early days he came as a pioneer to Bartholomew Co., Ind., where the balance of his life was spent." (After liv. in Bourbon Co., Ky., fam. liv. for a while in Boone Co., Ky.) REF: Beers--"Comm. Biog. Rec. of Indianapolis & Vicin." (1908) p. 1229; "Hist. of Bartholomew Co., Ind." (1888) pp. 428-429; Mrs. Irene Strieby, Indianapolis, Ind.
    Information above was gathered by Edward Hitchcock, member of the Daniel Guthrie SAR Chapter of Bedford, Indiana.

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