Obituary for Herbert C. Sheldon
The Ithaca Journal, Apr 4 1944, P. 3, Col. 1.

 "Herbert C. Sheldon, 85, of 1001 Triphammer Rd., died Monday, Apr. 3, 1944, in Memorial Hospital.
  A farmer, he assisted in the ladscaping[sic] of the Cayuga Heights and Cornell Heights sections, and was an assessor of the Town of Ithaca for a number of years. The son of Silas Anson and Juliaette Williams Farnham Sheldon, he was born Sept. 17, 1858, in Tioga County. On June 28, 1882, he married Rose Reed of Lisle, who died in 1938. Their children were Prof. Ralph Edward Sheldon of the University of Pittsburgh, who died in 1918, Miss Pearl G. Sheldon of Ithaca, and Mrs. Maude McElroy of Camp Robinson, Ark. He was in good health until a month ago.
  Besides Miss Sheldon and Mrs. McElroy he is survived by four grandsons, Evan Herbert Sheldon who is in the U.S. Army stationed at Camp Parks, Calif., Bert Temple Sheldon of the U.S. Army Medical Service at Philadelphia, Pa., Liuet.[sic] John Sheldron McElroy of the parachute infantry, and Edward Rexford McElroy, a cadet at the West Point Military Academy.
  Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the Baldwin-Davis Funeral Home, 421 N. Aurora St. The Rev. Henry G. Budd, pastor of the First Methodist Church, will officiate.
  Interment will be in Pleasant Grove Cemetery."