{"id":1232,"date":"2016-02-12T23:36:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T05:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:09","slug":"h-s-sheid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/h-s-sheid\/","title":{"rendered":"SHEID, H.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Col. <\/strong><b>H.S. SHEID<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, farmer in Coffee County, was born January 27, 1827, in this county. His father,<strong> James SHEID<\/strong>, born May 22, 1776, in South Carolina, was a pioneer of Tennessee, in 1803 settling on the present farm of our subject, where he died April 18, 1856. The grandfather of <strong>Col. SHEID<\/strong> served with distinction in the Revolution, while other ancestors were the first settlers in Maryland. His mother, <strong>Sibyl (Robertson) SHEID<\/strong>, was born November 26, 1779, and died in 1868; she was of Irish,and her husband of Scotch descent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At seventeen our subject left the farm, and after four years as salesman at Pelham, he began his career of farming and trading uninterruptedly, excepting a short service for the Louisville &amp; Nashville Railway. As captain of his recruited company, he entered Confederate service in November, 1861; he was soon elected lieutenant-colonel of the Forty-fourth Tennessee Infantry. After a disabling wound at Shiloh, he was honorary member of <strong>Gen. HARDEE\u2019s<\/strong> staff for a while. He was State senator for two years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1848 he married <strong>Mary E.,<\/strong> daughter of <strong>Gen. R.E. PATTON<\/strong> of Grundy County. Their children are <strong>Mary C., Cara C., Ella C., Jessie L., Will F., James H<\/strong>. and <strong>Kittie W<\/strong>. A self-made man, <strong>Col. SHEID<\/strong> is a member of the Baptist Church and the Masonic order at Pelham, and politically is a Democrat and advocate of the \u201cTemperance Alliance.\u201d His brother, <strong>Col. James M.<\/strong>, of Alabama, was a prominent politician in Tennessee before the war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Pub. Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of the Counties of White, Warren, Coffee, DeKalb, and Cannon, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Reminiscences, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Nashville: Goodspeed Pub. Co, 1887.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Col. H.S. SHEID, farmer in Coffee County, was born January 27, 1827, in this county. His father, James SHEID, born May 22, 1776, in South Carolina, was a pioneer of Tennessee, in 1803 settling on the present farm of our subject, where he died April 18, 1856. The grandfather of Col. 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