This week's “Turnback Tuesday” photo is of Oliver B. Sherwood and his wife, Charlotte (Fowler) Sherwood.
Oliver was born in Greenfield Hill, Fairfield County, and moved to Derby with his father in 1817. Charlotte was born in Milford where the two met. They married on Sept. 3, 1836 and had four children together. Oliver was a farmer aka “seed grower” and distributed his produce all the way up to New York.
The photograph was apparently taken by one of Oliver’s relatives, Elizabeth Sherwood, in front of their home located on Derby Hill.
It was taken sometime during the late 1880s or early 1890s before Charlotte’s death in 1892. Sentinel Hill Road and Sodom Lane were both listed as cross streets, so the house was located somewhere in that area.
Oliver and Charlotte are buried in Oak Cliff Cemetery on Hawthorne Avenue in Derby.
[First posted on this date in 2016.]
Thanks as always to Derby Public Library staff for sharing interesting local history each week.
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