- DANIEL SHIMEALL, farmer, Sec. 11 [Turtle Twp.]; P.O. Shopiere;
born in Montgomery Co.,
- N.Y., Jan. 20, 1841; son of John SHIMEALL, who was a farmer
and is now living in Shopiere. Daniel came to Wisconsin in 1860,
and enlisted in the 2d Wisconsin Regiment, one of the first to
go to the front; was in the battle of Bull Run, and many other
engagements, which he went through bravely and without accident
until the battle of Gettysburg, where he was shot through the
arm and side, and was taken off the field to Baltimore, and from
there to Philadelphia, and was treated with great care and kindness;
finally recovered and returned to Wisconsin. He now has the ball
that did the savage work, it was taken out of his body. Mr. SHIMEALL
now has a fine farm of ninety acres under the best of cultivation.
Married Margaret EARL, of New York, in 1864. Have had five children
- Charles W., born Dec. 9, 1866; Earl, born June 16, 1868; Lee,
born May 16, 1871, died Sept. 25, 1872; Lizzie, born Aug. 1,
1874; Grace, born Sept. 24, 1877. Mr. SHIMEALL was elected Town
Treasurer one term.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 808.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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