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Sherwood Woodhurst was born on September 3rd 1896 in Nebraska to parents William Henry Clay Woodhurst and his second wife Martha ("Mattie") Drusilla Donehower. A notice of his birth, referring to him simply as an infant male, was published on September 5th 1896 in the North Platte Telegraph. He may have been named in memory of Theodore Sherwood who had been living in the household of William H.C.'s mother at the time of the 1885 Census for Iowa.
The US 1900 Census finds him at age 3 living with his parents at 2nd Street, North Platte Township, Lincoln County in Nebraska.
The biography of his father states that Sherwood was discharged from the army at Camp Kearney, California in early 1919 and then took up work with the Tollefson [sic] Motor Company of Kearney, Nebraska.
The US 1920 Census finds him at age 23 at Kearney City in Buffalo County, Nebraska. He was employed as a book-keeper for a garage. He was single and living in the household of his uncle Clarence Tollefsen, the garage's general manager. Clarence's wife Mabel was described as born in Missouri of parents who were born in Pennsylvania, implying that she was the sister of Sherwood's mother Mattie.
In 1921 he was a witness to the marriage in North Platte of his brother Thurston to Hazel Anna Smith.
An uncorroborated IGI ancestral file states that Sherwood married Dorothy Patria Anderson - born about 1901 at Kearney City - but seems also to indicate that they subsequently divorced. Dorothy may have been related to Bessie Eliza Anderson, the first wife of Sherwood's father.
He appears to have remarried around 1929-30 to a woman named Carmen.
The US 1930 Census finds Sherwood and Carmen lodging with a George Mead in Omaha, Douglas County in Nebraska. Sherwood is described as aged 33 and born in Nebraska, and as having married for the first time at age 23. Carmen is described as aged 20, born in Denmark, occupied as an office clerk in a telephone company and having married for the first time at age 20. The full record has not yet been extracted.
The American Social Security Death Index states that Sherwood died on March 11th 1992, but does not say where. His SSN, issued in Indiana, was 312-01-6180.
He was buried in the Willamette National Cemetery in Portland, Multnomah County in Oregon. The burial record describes him as having been a wagoner in the US Army, and states that he was buried on March 17th 1992 in plot V-0-2437.
Nothing more is currently known of him.