MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — It was a second a couple of hundred years within the making. For generations, a Montgomery County firefighter’s household tree has been stuffed solely with sons. However that century-long streak now got here to an finish after the household realized {that a} daughter is on the way in which.
The final time the Sherman household stated that they had a lady born into their household was 108 years in the past.
On Sunday, surrounded by household and buddies, Montgomery County firefighter Michael Sherman and his spouse, Joacquia Sherman, came upon they’re anticipating a child woman.
“I simply really feel honored,” Sherman stated. “We’re those bringing the newborn woman into the world. Lastly, after over 100 years. It is wonderful.”
The final woman to bear the Sherman title was Orah Belle Sherman, Michael’s great-great aunt, born in 1917.
“She was a trailblazer in Atlanta,” Sherman stated. “She handled the civil rights in the course of the civil rights time. She met quite a lot of civil rights leaders, and he or she made an influence in Atlanta.”
The household stated they’re now excited to see what the most recent Sherman will do together with her life when she comes into this world.
“I really like her. It doesn’t matter what path she chooses, we might be together with her,” Michael’s grandmother, Lydia Robertson, stated. “She’s going to at all times have help right here.”
The household informed ABC13 that the newborn is due in March. They stated they’re additionally planning to examine and see in the event that they broke a Guinness World Report with this information.
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