"A Pioneer History of Becker County Minnesota" by Alvin H. Wilcox (1907), Chapter XXI,
History of Detroit Township, pages 332-333.


Lois H. Cutler Sherman 

          
Mrs. Lois H. Sherman, wife of Almon W. Sherman and daughter of Mrs. Lois
Cutler, was born at Lisle, Broome County, New York, on the 2d day of March,
1811. When twenty years of age, after two years of sickness, during which
time she was nearly helpless and unable to leave her bed, she was almost
instantaneously and permanently restored to health, by an ordained elder
belonging to the church of which Joseph Smith was the head, who was then
holding meetings in the neighborhood.

For several years, during the early seventies, I lived a near neighbor to
these people, and many times I have heard the story of this marvelous
transaction from the lips of both Mrs. Cutler and Mrs. Sherman. They were
both women of sincerity, veracity and intelligence, and I was never in the
least disposed to doubt the truth of their statement. This was the 
beginning and the foundation of their faith in and connection with the
church of Latter Day Saints, to which they and their posterity for five
generations have most loyally and faithfully adheared, and by wihch in the
course of events they and their kindred became the chief corner stone of 
that church when it was organized in Oak Lake in the summer of 1875, and
which now (1905) has a membership of more than 100 souls in Becker County.
Mrs. Sherman came to Becker County with her husband in 1868 and died at
their old homestead on the shores of Oak Lake,on the 11th day of April,
1880.



Submitted by Dick Campbell <campbell45@juno.com>