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28 Feb 1803. Death. 22 May 1878 (aged 75) Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana, USA. Burial. Oakwood Cemetery. Warsaw, Kosciusko County, Indiana, USA Add to Map. Memorial ID. 29374256.
Jun 25, 2020 · Laura Bierce formerly Sherwood. Born 28 Feb 1803 in Cornwall, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. Ancestors. Daughter of Joshua Bradford Sherwood and Anna (Bonney) Sherwood. Sister of Maria (Sherwood) Hopkins, Anna (Sherwood) Johnson, Sarah (Sherwood) Beardsley, Ebenezer B. Sherwood, William Bradford Sherwood and John S. Sherwood.
- Female
- February 28, 1803
- Marcus Aurelius Bierce
- May 22, 1878
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Laura Sherwood (February 28, 1803 - May 22, 1878) was a resident of Cornwall, Connecticut, and the state of Ohio and Indiana.
Sherwood was born in Cornwall, Connecticut on February 28, 1803 as the daughter of a Congregational deacon. She was a descendant of William Bradford. At an early age, she moved with her family to Ohio, where she grew up. After her marriage in 1822, she moved to Horse Cave and Circleville, in Indiana, and then to Warsaw, Indiana. She may have felt that the Sherwood family was superior to the Bierce family. Only in 1858 did the family get title to the Warsaw farm, and it was then put in Laura's name only. In 1861, she sold it and bought a house in Warsaw, Indiana. In 1865, in effect the head of the shrinking family, she bought farm property near Elkhart, Indiana, and moved from Warsaw, Indiana, and in 1869 bought and moved into a house in Elkhart.
Sherwood married Marcus Aurelius Bierce on February 22, 1822. She subsequently bore him thirteen children, each of them given a name beginning with A. Her son, the famous writer Ambrose Bierce, felt emotionally rejected by his mother and theorized that she lacked enough love to share with so many children. He disliked her lugubrious piety, and may have even hated her.
•Abigail Bell Bierce - m. Dwight W. Chappell
•Amelia Josephine Bierce - m. Benjamin Franklin Guthrie
•Ann Marie Bierce - m. William Good
•Augustus F. Bierce - m. Rebecca Pittenger
•Almeda Sophia Bierce - m. (1) Henry C. Pittenger (2) William Davis (3) Alexander D. Pittenger
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Jul 10, 2023 · His satirical political writings earned him attention and no small degree of notoriety in his time, as well as the nickname “Bitter Bierce.” Bierce was born to Marcus Aurelius and Laura Sherwood Bierce on a farm in Horse Cave Creek, Meigs County, Ohio, and moved to northern Indiana at an early age.
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born on June 24, 1842 in Megis County, Ohio to Marcus Aurelius Bierce and Laura Sherwood Bierce. Bierce was the tenth of thirteen children, whose names all began with the letter "A". Bierce grew up in a poor, but literary, family who encouraged his love for books.
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce born in 1842 in Meigs County, Ohio to Marcus Aurelius Bierce and Laura Sherwood Bierce. He was a civil war veteran. Married Mary Ellen "Mollie" Day on December 25, 1871. Bierce separated from his wife in 1888, and divorced in 1904. They had three children: sons, Day, Leigh, and a daughter Helen.
