- ABRAM SHUMAKER, farmer, Sec. 9; P.O. Beloit; born in Luzerne
Co., Penn., in 1813. In
- 1839, was married there to Miss Susan SORBOR, and moved to
Columbia Co., Penn. In 1851, came to Wisconsin, located in Newark
township, and bought 240 acres of land in Secs. 9 and 10, with
some improvements made. He built the residence he now occupies
in 1854, with barns, and made more improvements, then sold forty
acres of it, leaving only 200 acres, which he now owns. They
had thirteen children, eleven now living. Three of his sons
enlisted in the army; one died at Memphis Tenn., of fever; another
was disabled and was discharged, and the other remained two years,
and after being discharged, re-enlisted and served ten months
more, till the close of the war; two of his sons are now living
at home with him on the farm.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 773.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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