Please pardon me for adding a little bit to this topic. I have always found it quite interesting.
Sherman’s religious faith was frequently discussed within his family circle. Sherman was a God-fearing, but nonsectarian husband, married to an extremely dedicated Roman Catholic wife. He believed fate ruled life. Near the end of his life he wrote,
"I am sure that you know that the God who created the minnow and who has moulded the rose and the carnation, given each its sweet fragrance, will provide for those mortal men, who strive to do right in the world which he himself has stocked with birds, animals, and men; -- at all events I will trust Him with absolute confidence."
Sherman always supported Ellen in her faith, but as I recall a family crisis erupted when his son Tom joined the Jesuit order. From that time on he became an outspoken critic of the Catholic educational system. I have often wondered how he would have felt about his children obtaining the last rites of the Church for him -- as he lay unconscious, on his deathbed.