"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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FREDERICK SHEETS, merchant, farmer and stock grower, was born in Prince
William County, Va., February 24, 1823. His parents, GEORGE and MARGARET
(HOUSE) SHEETS, were natives of Germany, and came to America in 1814 or
1815, and in 1836 took up their abode at Mooresville, and here spent the
remainder of their days, the former dying in 1877 at the age of ninety-one
years, and the latter in the year of 1847, at the age of fifty-seven years.
Our subject learned the carpenter's trade with his father, and followed it
about eight years. He was first married, at Mooresville, to CHARLOTTE,
daughter of DR. CHARLES HAWK, and has had born to him six children--LAURA
ALICE (deceased), WILLIAM O., KATE ALMA, HARRY O., HATTIE L. and MERTIE.
The mother of these children having died, Mr. Sheets was married, October
20, 1879, to CAROLINE PEOPLES, his present wife. In 1851, the firm of F.
Sheets & Bro. was organized at Mooresville, and has since existed. They do
a large mercantile business, and carry on four extensive farms in Morgan and
Hendricks Counties. Aside from the firm property, F. Sheets owns some half
dozen pieces of town property, among them the finest residence in
Mooresville. He is a member of the Republican County Central Committee,
belongs to the Masonic order, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. His property has all been acquired by his individual effort and
enterprise.
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