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WILLIAM SHERADEN, farmer and gardener, post office Sheradenville, son of Thomas and Agnes Sheraden, was born in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, in 1819, and came with his mother to this county in 1822. His father died in Ohio in 1820, aged fifty-eight years; his mother died in 1855; both were members of the Presbyterian Church. They had seven children, viz.: John, Mary, Jane, Thomas and James (all deceased), and Sarah (now the widow of the late William Logan) and William, the subject of this sketch, who was married in 1840 to Mary Ann, daughter of John and Mary A. Nickel, of this county, and to them were born six children: John Thomas (deceased), Anna Mary (widow of Dr. J. W. Smith), William James, Margaret Jane (widow of Harry Bockstoce), Elizabeth Aveline (wife of George B. Moore) and Sarah Bailey (wife of John Hall, Jr.). His son and two widowed daughters and two grandsons, Willie and Harry Bockstoce, still reside with him. In 1858 Mr. Sheraden purchased the property where he now resides, 122 acres, with but little improvement, for $9,300, all of which he accumulated by his own industry and that of his worthy wife. His wife died Aug. 5, 1881, in her sixty-third year. Both were members of the Third U. P. Church, Pittsburgh, where Mr. Sheraden is still an elder. The village of Sheraden is named for Mr. Sheraden, and is a flourishing town situated four and a half miles from Pittsburgh, on the P., C. & St. L. R. R.; it contains a handsome new school building, one M. E. church and mission Sabbath-school, and a number of stores doing good business. The location and site of Sheraden, while in itself exceptionally handsome, even among the many beautiful surroundings of these cities, has special convenience of access to the principal manufacturing and business centers in both Allegheny City and Pittsburgh.