MISS MARY SHEETS, who is one of Elizabeth Township's best known and most highly esteemed ladies, resides on her farm of 260 acres, on which she was born and which has always been her home. Her parents were Isaac S. and Nancy (Knoop) Sheets.

The paternal grandparents of Miss Sheets were Andrew and Catherine (Sills) Sheets. They were born in Pennsylvania and moved from there first to Tennessee and then to Elizabeth Township, Miami County, Ohio. They had eleven children, five of whom died in infancy. Those who reached maturity were Sarah, Nancy, Elizabeth, Catharine, Eve and Isaac S. Andrew Sheets was both farmer and blacksmith.

Isaac S. Sheets was born in 1799 and lived on his father's farm until his marriage, when he moved to the farm on which his daughter Mary now resides. He engaged in farming and was an extensive raiser of cattle and hogs. He was a man of great business capacity and not only put up the substantial farm buildings but also erected a saw-mill, a flour mill and a distillery and carried on these industries successfully. He married Nancy Knoop, who was a daughter of' John and Barbara (Hultzstein) Knoop, and they had the following children: Elizabeth, lives in Alcony, Ohio; Andrew, who died in young manhood; Mary, and John, Barbara and George,, all deceased. Isaac S. Sheets died September 23, 1877, having survived his wife some fifteen years.

The Sheets homestead is a very valuable property. It is situated in Section 34, Elizabeth Township, lying along the Troy and Springfield Turnpike road. The Sheets and Knoops are old and representative families of this section.