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JOHX FRAXKLI?^ SHEPHERD

ASSISTED BY

Mrs. Lucy JVilson, Miss Ida Dohbs, Miss Jane Shepherd,
Mr. J. T. Shepherd and Miss Maud E. Cullum.

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"SHEPHERD"— Hebrew, Rnee; Greek, Poimane; Latin, Pastor; Anglo-Saxon, Schephyrde;
Dutch. Schcppert; German, Scbaffcr; English, Shepherd.

The Order of the Thistle, from Scottish resistance to Nor-
man invasion, and established ty James II in 168 7, during the
Claverhouse persecution, the insigna in Arms of which is seen
on the Title Page was appropriated by our ancestors, in loyalty
to the Mother Country, after the battle of the Boyne, and may
well be claimed by their descendants.

Three brothers who left Scotland about 168 0.

James Shepherd

John Shepherd Thomas Shepherd

AVIliam Shepherd, born 1(J92. James Shepherd Gabriel Shepherd
Named for AVilliam of
Oranse.

James Shepherd, born 1730, William Shepherd James Shepherd
Emisrated 1812. James Shepherd Died in Ireland

Thomas Shepherd (Died in
Ireland).

John Shepherd, Emigrated
1812, died on Wheeling
Creek.

Jaeob, son of John and
father of John of 31 id-
dlebourne, A.V. Va.

Joseph, ^vitness of Sarah's
^vill, son of Thomas.

George, son of Thomas and
father of Isaiah.

James Shepherd John Shepherd

Children of James Shepherd
Sarah, emigrated abont 1800.
AVilliam, emigrated about 1810
Peter, emigrated, first, 1808.
James, emigrated about 1810.
John, emigrated 1814.
Thomas, ^vith parents, about 1812.

Son of AA illiam
Emigrated 181.->.
Jane Shepherd
Alarried Peter

Shepherd
Emigrated 1815.

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Mrs. Alice Kneen, of Cleveland, Ohio, writes: My grandfather
had but two children, James, my father, and Jane, wife of Peter
Shepherd. Peter and Jane were third cousins. My father and
mother came to America with Peter Shepherd and wife, Jane, in
1815. They were seven weeks on the ocean, arriving- at Philadel-
phia in October of that year. They were pure Scotch-Irish and a
noble, honorable race."

Mrs. Kneen's line, a splendid family, numbers many prominent
men and women, including- several ministers of the Methodist
Episcopal church. She is past 81 years old. but retains her facul-
ties and is active in the church.

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John Franklin Shepheid, Ph. 1)., D.Tj.

FOREWORD.

A work of this nature must necessarily be imperfect,
especially when we remember that our ancestors, when leaving
Europe, seemed anxious to destroy every link that bound them
to the land of their nativity. But after almost a year of pains-
taking research, during which the author has written more
than 5 00 letters and cards of inquiry, more than half of which
are yet unanswered, it is a source of congratulation that re-
sults are as good as they are, and that this work will be treas-
ured by all v/ho appreciate knowing who we are and w^hence we
came. It is to be hoped that a later edition may give in full
the lines which we have failed to secure.

Among sources of help the author acknowledges his in-
debtedness to "History of the Scottish Persecution," "The
History of Ireland," "Early English Jurisprudence," "Coloniza-
tion of Ulster," "The Orangemen," Munsell's Shepherd's
Genealogy; Thomas Shepherd, of Drumbrohas, Drumosladdy,
Ireland; the Keeper of Public Records, Dublin; the Episcopal
Rector of Parish of Drumlane, County Caven; the Rector of
County Cork; George W. Shepherd, of New Martinsville, W.
Va. (of another line); Mrs. Allen, of Pittsburg, Pa., of the
same line; John Shepherd, of Middlebourn, W. Va.; S. P. Shep-
herd, or Scio, O.; Jane Shepherd, of Carrollton, O.; Maud Cul-
lum, of Beloit, Kas., and others, besides the members of the
committee who have been untiring in their work.

The 10 0th anniversary of the landing of James and Sarah
Shepherd will be held as near that place as convenient August
15th, 1912, at which time we hope to meet those who have a
common ancestry in happy fellowship.

Those who plan to be present from a distance should no-
tify one of the following Committee on Arrangements, w^ho
will also be able to furnish a limited number of these books at
cost to cover expense: Miss Ida Dobbs, 10708 Churchill Ave.,
Cleveland, O.; Wm. M. Shepherd, Carrollton, O.; Samuel D.
Shepherd, Preeport, O.; James T, Shepherd, Amsterdam, O.;
Mrs. Lucy Wilson, Hammondsville, O., R. D. 2.

Imperfections must be overlooked. The author is a busy
pastor, who keeps no stenographer, proofreader or amanuensis,
and whose work has all been done without thought of remu-
neration, but through a love of the work. He already feels
remunerated by the large circle of friends, whom he is sure
it will be a blessing to know, and with whom the preparation
of this work has brought him into touch. May the God our
fathers served bless and enrich all those whose names appear
here. JOHN P. SHEPHERD.

CHARACTERISTICS.

We may be pardoned if we call attention to some of the
characteristics of the descendants of James and Sarah Morton
Shepherd which a perusal of these pages will reveal. This is
not boasting, but a simple statement of facts.

And first, the family is religious, that type of religion
known as Orthodox Christianity. The vagaries of Occultism,
in the form of Christian Science, Spiritism or Theosophy, or
Unitarianism, despoiling Christ of His Deity, has no part in
their thought, as they retain the sublime faith of their Cove-
nanter ancestors. Catholicism is also unknown. Their re-
ligious life finds expression in such aggressive religious bodies
as the Presbyterian, the Methodist, the United Brethren and
kindred churches.

This faith has expressed itself in their lives. Christ does
not dress up a moral picture and ask us to observe its beauty,
but tells us how to live, and the most beautiful characters the
world has ever seen are those who received and lived his pre-
cepts without once conceiving their beauty. This is seen in
the home life of the family. Many of these have homes
which so face toward the Father's House that an angel might
be asked to stay over night and not find himself out of his
element. Domestic infelicity is rare, and, in this day of easy
and numerous divorces, separations are almost unknown here.

Bishop Hall has said: "An idle man is he Devil's
cushion." If all other clans furnished the kind of stuff of
which the Shepherds are made, the Devil would have to sit
upon the soft side of a rail or stand up. Parasites, who engage
in a business which appeals to human depravity for gain, with-
out ministering to human need or rendering a Divine-human
service, are unknown. The occupation of farming, always
honorable, but recognized more so today than ever, predomi-
nates. Several are, or have been, merchants in legitimate
lines of trade. A host are teachers of schools and of music
and art, some having distinguished themselves in this line.
The learned professions, law, medicine and the ministry, have
their share. In all lines of effort, integrity and honor have
characterized the family. Though a hundred crooked paths
may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight
path of public and private virtue which leads to a pure and
lasting fame, and to the blessings of posterity, has been chosen.

"The greatest truths are the simplest.
And so are the greatest men."

"What's in a name?" Far back among the Anglo-Norman
settlers of the British Isles, the prefix "Mack," abbreviated
"Mc," and the Irish "O" were used for "son"; thus McDonald
or O'Donald is the son of Donald. So in the Northern coun-
tries, the designation was at the end of the name, and it be-
came Donaldson, or, if of Finnish or Swedish origin, it was
Donaldsen. As early as the tenth century the occupation gave
names to the clan, but it remained for Edward the Fourth of
England, in 1465, to secure the enactment of a statute to that
effect. By this statute surnames were adopted of a town in
which they lived, as Sutton, Chester, Trion, or of a color, as
White, Black or Brown, or of office, as Cook, Butler, or pro-
fession or occupation, as Smith, Carpenter, Turner, Shepherd.

This method of obtaining surnames seems to have spread
over Europe, as a study of German, Italian and French names
will indicate. For example, Taylor in English is Schneider in
German and Sartos (the surname of the present Pope Pius X)
in Italian. So Shepherd in English is Shaffer in German.

The Shepherds originally dwelt in Scotland, where, as the
name indicates, they were farmers and keepers of flocks, as
was the great King of Israel at Bethlehem. Scotland, since the
time of John Knox, through persecution and blood, has held
fast to the Bible. Even three hundred years ago, every family
had a Bible and every village a school. That olden day is beau-
tifully described in Burns' "Cotter's Saturday Night," when,
after describing the family worship, led by "The priest like
father," in which all the family join, after he reads from
"the big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride," Burns writes:

"From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs.
That makes her loved at home, revered abroad;

Princes and lords are but the breath of kings;
An honest man's the noblest work of God."

Such training and such faith, in that day of long ago,
prepared our ancestors for the fiery trial which was to try
them. Persecution, like death, removes lies and leaves only
truth to cling to. Suffering for truth develops character,
hence Scottish descendants go straight to the mark like an
arrow, and are not eaten up with doubts and difficulties.

In the 16th century Queen Elizabeth threw open to colo-
nization by English and Scotch settlers the Province of Ulster
in North Ireland, but in 15 6 6 the Scots were driven out of

Ulster by Shane O'Neill. They slowly returned and were
evangelized by Robert Blaire, the famous Scotch evangelist.
Again, in 1641, the Catholics attempted to massacre the whole
of the Province and drove most of them from their homes.

Then, a few years later, came the shocking persecutions
for the truth in Scotland under John Graham (Lord Claver-
house). The Godly James Guthrie was the first to suffer death
in 1661. Four hundred faithful ministers of the Word were
ejected from their pulpits, and their flocks were scattered and
were hunted in mountain caves and in glens, and were hurried
to prison and to death. The climax was reached at the "killing
time at the cross of Edinburgh," July 2 7, 1681, when the
saintly Cameron, Cargil and others were executed, Cargil sing-
ing the 118th Psalm on the scaffold.

During this bloody regime many flocked to the Province
of Ulster, which was now quiet again, others fled to Holland,
and from there to England or America. It was at this time,
possibly about 1680, that three brothers, said to be John,
James and Thomas Shepherd, settled in Ulster, County Cavan,
Ireland, just in time to take part in the Battle of the Boyne,
which in July, 169 0, destroyed the power of the persecutors
and settled the Godly William and Mary over Great Britain.
In this Battle of the Boyne and in the glories of Londonderry
and Enniskillen, glories which will live as long as the English
language endures, our ancestors had part.

Of that sad separation in Scotland, when the bloody Cla-
verhouse held sway, we may not speak. As these three
brothers, with their wives and possibly a few "bairns," started
for Ireland, and for a province where but forty years before
cruel massacres had obtained, others of their family preferring
to risk England or Holland, separted from them with tearful
eyes, no more to meet until the streams of lineage might blend
in the New World, where, please God, religious persecution
can never come.

Of this latter company, who came by the way of England
to America, we have only a few words. We know that there
were, some fifty years later, or about 173 0, three brothers who
reached America, One, whose name is not remembered, set-
tled near Annapolis, another, Thomas, near Richmond, Va.,
and William, who finally settled in what was afterward known
as West Virginia, on Wheeling Creek. Thomas Shepherd laid
out Shepherdstown, Va., formerly known as Mechlenberg, and

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built a church. His son, Col. David Shepherd, who in 1780
was sent out with Col. Broadhead against the Indians, stren-
uously objected to attacking the Moravians in the Muskingum
and Tuscarawas valleys, and succeeded in preventing that
which Col. Williamson did in 1782 at Gnaddsnhutton. He had
a large part in building the great National Pike, extending
from Cumberland, Md., to St. Louis. The defense of Shepherd
Fort, near Wheeling, by him and his contemporaries, was the
occasion of many thrilling feats. His son, Col. Moses Shep-
herd, honored throughout the nation, and four brothers, grand-
sons of William, who served in the war for the preservation
of the Union, will help to keep the name of this illustrious line
alive. Col. Moses Shepherd's grave is marked by a splendid
monument in the cemetery of the Old Stone Elm Ridge Pres-
byterian Church, on Wheeling Creek, where many friends sleep
near the church built by their great-uncle and grandfather.
These have spread throughout Ohio and to the west. Descend-
ants are living in Pittsburgh, whom to know is a blessing. The
general characteristics, the persistence of names, such as
James, John, Thomas and William, the devotion to truth and
the spirit of honor and religion, mark these lines as descended
from the same head in far-off Scotland.

Sir Walter Raleigh discovered the potato in South Amer-
ica, and introduced it into Ireland in 1610, and in a short time
it became the staple crop of the country, so that one family
could raise enough food for forty families. But if the potato
failed, as sometimes it did, dread famine followed. Though
the Church of England represented but one-twelfth of the
population of Ireland, it absolutely controlled the affairs of
the country. This, and the burdens of absent landlordism,
made the times, especially when the potatoes failed, intoler-
able. Scotch Presbyterians who defended Londonderry were
treated no better by these landlords than the Catholics who
besieged it. These absent landlords often turned out Protest-
ant yeomen to get a higher rent from Catholic cotters; they
were forced to labor on the roads, which was often a private
job. These exactions sent men to America, hating England
and the Catholics alike. The Protestants of Ulster had been
driven out twice in fifty years, and it was not to be wondered
at that the outrages of 1798, when again the Protestants and
Catholics came into bloody conflict, and the atrocities of the
Scullabogue barn are recalled, that we find the stalwart young

men, William and Peter Shepherd, joining the Orangemen and
striking hard blows for the right. Nor is it to be wondered at
that so soon thereafter as enough could be gotten together to
make possible the voyage they should seek a home in the land
of peace and plenty.

I have spoken of the faith of long ago in Scotland, and of
the persistence of certain names in all lines. These, it should
be observed, are Bible names — James, John, Peter, Moses and
Thomas. Later, after William of Orange had given rest to the
land, William became a favorite name in the family. The
name George seems not to be used on the other side, but only
on this side the ocean. Evidently the kings of England of
that name were not much loved by their Irish or English sub-
jects, but George Washington has appealed to Americans.
The Parish of Drumlane, County Cavan, is Episcopal. The
Keeper of Public Records of Ireland in Dublin tells me that
the records of that Parish, which are kept in his office, begin
with 179 6, and that from that date to 1812, when the family
had left Ireland, the following records appear: "Baptism of
Frances, 1802, and William, 1806, children of James and Mary
Shepherd; Marriage of John Shepherd, 1802, and of Eleanor
Shepherd (Note this name later) in 1808." Evidently our an-
cestors, while living in this parish, did not belong to the
Church of England. Thomas Shepherd, a farmer of Drum-
brohas, Drumcsladdy, Parish of Drumlane, gives the name of
his father as William, whose brothers were Pater and Thomas,
and his grandfather as James. His grandfather had a distant
relative and friend, Gabriel Shepherd, evidently James Shep-
herd's son by a former marriage (See James and Sarah Shep-
herd). These family names persist in Ireland and America.

James Shepherd was born in Parish of Drumlane,
County Cavan, Ireland, 1730, and died in Jefferson County,
Ohio, in June, 1814, aged 84 years. He was a son of William
and grandson of James, one of the three brothers who came
to the Province of Ulster from Scotland about 1680, or fifty
years before his birth. He was married before and was the
father of a son, Gabriel, and a daughter, who remained in Ire-
land. Some time after the death of his first wife, he married
Sarah Morton about 1774, by whom the following children
were born: Nancy, married to Charles Dobbs; William, Peter,
James, John and Thomas. Early in 1812, when he was 82
years old, he started for America with his wife and two sons,

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John and Thomas. Because Great Britain needed John in the
war with America, he was not permitted to continue, but
Thomas was allowed to accompany his aged father and his
mother. Enroute a storm arose upon the ocean, and they were
compelled to cast much of their household goods overboard,
packed in which was their family Bible, which contained the
family records. This accounts for the lack of definite dates
in the matter of births and marriages. What must have been
the feelings of an old man, who was only to survive in the
new world two years, on leaving the land of his fathers and of
his life's activities?

Sarah Morton was born 17 5 7 and was married to James
Shepherd at the early age of 17 years, while her husband was
44. She survived him eight years, dying in 1822, tenderly
cared for in the home of her son, Thomas. They sleep in the
Montgomery cemetery in Jefferson County, Ohio, a marble
shaft marking their last resting place, while the faith of their
lives is voiced in the inscription carved deeply, "And I heard
a voice from heaven saying unto me. Write, Blessed are the
dead which die in the Lord. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they
may rest from their labors and their works do follow them."
The faith and simplicity of Sarah Shepherd is shown in the
will which she dictated, by which she disposed of her few
earthly effects. It reads as follows:

"In the name of God Amen. I Sarah Shepherd, of Ross
Township, in the County of Jefferson and State of Ohio, being-
weak of body but of sound mind and memory, blessed be God
for the same, do make and publish this, my last will and testa-
ment in the manner and form following, viz.:

First — I give and bequeath my immortal soul into the hand
of Almighty God who gave it to me, and my body to the earth,
to be buried in a decent and Christian like manner, at the dis-
cretion of my executors to be here named. And as to what
worldly property, it hath pleased the Lord to bless me with.
I give to my daughter, Nancy, one dollar: I do give and be-
queath to my son, Peter Shepherd, one dollar; I give and be-
queath to my son, William Shepherd, the sum of one dollar. I give
and bequeath to my son, Peter Shepherd, one dollar: I give and
bequeath to my son James Shepherd, the sum of one dollar; I give
and bequeath to my son, John Shepherd, the sum of one dollar;
and, lastly, as to all the residue and remainder of my personal
estate, goods and chattels, I give and bequeath the same to my
son, Thomas Shepherd: and I do appoint Thomas Shepherd my
whole and sole executor of this, my last will and testament and
revoking all former wills by me made In witness whereof, I
have hereunto set my hand and seal this 27th day of May,

her
1819. Sarah x Shepherd,
mark

Signed sealed and delivered by the above named Sarah
Shepherd to be her last will and testament in the presence of us
whose names are hereunto subscribed, as witnesses in the pres-
ence of the testator. ARTHUR LATIMER,

his
JOHN X TWADDLE,
mark.

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The goods and chattels of the deceased were inventoried
and appraised by Arthur Latimer, James McComish and Jo-
seph Shepherd a nephew of James Sliepherd.

Nancy Sliepherd, eldest, child and only daughter of James
and Sarah Morton Shepherd, was born about the year 17 7 5
in County Cavan, Ireland, Parish of Drumlane. About the year
18 00 Ainger Dobbs of County Donegal, Ireland, with his wife
and eight sons, removed to America. Charles, the third son,
brought with him his new bride, Nancy Shepherd Dobbs, she
being the first of her father's family to reach the New World.
They settled in Beaver County, Pa., near his father's home, but
later purchased land near to her brother's, John Shepherd,
where they lived for twenty years or more, selling the farm
about 18 36 to her brother, John Shepherd. Charles Dobbs
died 1851 and Nancy Shepherd Dobbs 1865, aged about 90
years. To them were born Ainger Dobbs, 1803; John Dobbs,
18 07; James Dobbs, 1809; William Dobbs, 1812; Sarah Dobbs,
1814; Jane Dobbs, 1816; Gabriel Dobbs, 1818, and Ellen
Dobbs, 182 0.

Ainger Dobbs, eldest son of Charles and Nancy Shepherd
Dobbs, married Hannah Davis 1834 and died February, 1845.
They had four sons, Matthew Champlain Dobbs, William Davis
Dobbs, John Gormly Dobbs and James Bradford Dobbs.

Matthew Champlain Dobbs was born October 14, 183 7,
married Sarah Frank September 9, 18 58, and died October
11, 1864.

James Bradford Dobbs, youngest son, was born February
22, 1844, and died August 15, 1859.

William Davis Dobbs, second son, was born August 31,
1839, married to Mary Sink July 4, 1867. He is a successful
farmer and influential for good, living near Terre Haute, Ind.
To them were born seven children, Charles B. Dobbs, the
eldest, dying in infancy; Harry C. Dobbs, second son, born
June 2, 1870, died October 7, 1894; Elmer, the fourth; Grace,
only daughter; Guy A., fifth son, and John S., sixth son, all
deceased.

Spencer L. Dobbs, third son of William Davis Dobbs and
wife, born September 7, 18 71, married Ora French. They
have one daughter, Mary Rebecca Dobbs, born June 17, 1908.

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John Gormley Dobbs.

John Gormly Dobbs, third son of Ainger and Hannah
Davis Dobbs, was born March 10, 1841; married Sarah Scott
Bell June 1, 18 7 0. After serving in the war for the preser-
vation of the Union, he settled in Indiana and engaged first
in the grocery business in Terre Haute. Later he turned his
attention to the furniture business, in which he has built up
a large trade. He and his family are devout Christians and
members of the Baptist church. There were born to John G.
and Sarah Dobbs two children. Clair Donaldson Dobbs, the
son, was born May 2 6, 18 71; married to Nellie Turk Septem-
ber 25 1901. She died December 2, 1903. Clair is assuming
the charge of his father's business. The daughter, Efhe
Frances Dobbs, was born June 21, 18 75. She graduated from
the Terre Haute High School and from the Indiana State Nor-
mal, then taught for several years, finally becoming assistant
supervisor of drawing in the city schools. After her mother's
death in 19 02 she gave up teaching and became a real home-

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keeper, where her artistic powers are wisely displayed in push-
ing the shadows that have come over the home life by the
loss of the mother into the background, giving the picture the
sunny tints of hope and faith. A few years ago she visited
her ancestral home in Ireland.

John Dobbs second son of Charles and Nancy Shepherd
Dobbs, born 1807, married to Mary Jane Arbuckle 1828, and
died in Jefferson County, Ohio, Island Creek, 1890, aged 83.
He was a successful farmer, industrious, honorable and above
all a devout Christian. He was a member of the Methodist
church for 58 years, having united with the Bray's Chapel
in 1832. In life he was respected by all, and in death crowned
by his Lord, Vv^hom he had served so faithfully. In his faith
was mingled energy, skill, determination and cheerfulness.

William Dobbs. John Dobbs.

One of his chief joys was to gather the little ones about him
in the evening when his work for the day was done, and in-
struct and amuse them with stories. His grandchildren loved
him, for he was never known to quarrel with anyone. His
granddaughter, Mrs. Emma McMinn, who seems to have been
a favorite with him, recalls his great efficiency in the realm
of agriculture, his absolute truthfulness and sincerity and his
marvelous poise as a true gentleman. The children of John

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and Mary J. Dobbs were: Ainger, born 18 2 9, died in in-
fancy; William, born 1830, died 1895; Sarah, born 1833;
Charlotte, born 1835, died 1877; Mary, born 1837; George,
born 1840, died 1864; Lucinda born 1842; one not named;
John, born 1845; Robert, born 1848, died 1874; Alexander,
born 1850; Jane, born 1853, died 1854.

Wm. Dobbs, eldest son of Jolin and Mary Dobbs was born
March 5, 1830 and died July 27, 1895. He married Eleanor
J. Taylor in 1854 who died in 1858, leaving him a little daugh-
ter, Mary J. Dobbs, born 1857, died 1881. William Dobbs mar-
ried Letitia F. McCort in 18 60, who still survives, living with
her children in Cleveland, Ohio. Of this union were born four
children, James Wesley; Cora Mabel; Minnie Rozelle and Ida
Blanche. William Dobbs was a prosperous farmer near Car-
rollton, Ohio. He was a devout Christian and member of the
Methodist church and had the joy of seeing all his children
converted and in the fellowship of the church before his death.
His home was a shelter for the wayfarer and his generosity
was bounded only by his ability to minister. Of him the phy-
sician who attended him in his last illness said: "I would
rather die, having lived such a life as he did, than to be presi-
dent of the United States." His friends were numerous and de-
voted because of his genuineness and loyalty to right. Of the
children of William and Letitia Dobbs, James Wesley, born
1861, died 1867; Cora Mabel, born 1864, married Howard S.
Hough April 1900. They have no children, live at 10708
Churchill Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. Minnie Rozelle Dobbs, born
1868, married Robert N. Moffat 1906. They have no children,
live at Lamar, Colo. Ida Blanche Dobbs, born 18 70, lives witli
her mother and sister at 10708 Churchill, Cleveland, Ohio.
She is a book keeper, a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and earnestly devoted to missionary interests, support-
ing a "Bible Woman" in China.

Sarah Dobbs, daughter of John and Mary Dobbs, born
March 1833, married John Howe 1855, died February 25, 1910.
In 18 6 0 they with two small children moved to Missouri where
they reared a large family. Her children are Emma Jane of
New Rockford, N. D.; Angeline of Waverly; Rose of Osage,
Mo.; Thomas of Rolliette, N. D.; Chaplin of Denver, la.; G.
W. Howe of Fargo, N. D.; Olive, living near Shell Rock, Mo.,
and W. J. Howe, residing on the home farm near Shell
Rock, Mo.

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Charlotte Dobbs, second daughter of John and Mary
Dobbs, was born 183 5, married to John George, a Union soldier
and Aid de camp to Gen. Grant in 18 62. (Mr. George is still
living in Steubenville, O.) Of this union were born four chil-
dren, Cora, Emma, Mary and Robert. Charlotte Dobbs George
died August 14, 1876.

Cora George, born January 23, 1866, married Charles
Gretzinger 188 5 with whom she lives in Bridgeport, Ohio,
having about them a happy family of nine children as folio r/s:
Frank Gretzinger, George Gretzinger, Emma Gretzinger,
Charles Gretzinger, Lillian Gretzinger, Charlotte Gretzinger,
Frederick Gretzinger, James Gretzinger and Marian Gretzinger.

Mrs. Eiiiiiia McMinii.

Master ii. Mawvell McMinn.

Emma George, born February 8th, 1868, married 1907,
to John C. Maxwell McMinn of Wigtown Shire, Scotland. They
live at Elkhart, Ind., and have one son, Robert G. Maxwell Mc-
Minn, born September 20, 19 09.

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Mary George, "born April 17, 187 0, married Robert
Bunch 1891. They live at Muncie, Ind. Their children are
Robert Bunch, Dorothy Bunch, William Bunch, Mary Bunch
and Leuvada Bunch.

Robert George was born January 10, 187 3, married to
Mary Willis, who died 19 05, leaving him three little ones, as
follows: Alice George, Charlotte George and Lenore George.

Mary Dobbs, third daughter of John and Mary, was born
183 7, married Samuel Lutz. Their children are John Lutz,
Edna Lutz, who married — Darnsmont and who with her
mother resides at 3458 Whitfield Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio;
Georgie Lutz and Fred Lutz.

George Dobbs, third son of John and Mary Arbuckle
Dobbs, born 183 9, entered the army and fell in defense of the
Union and the flag in 18 64.

John Dobbs, fourth son of John and Mary Arbuckle Dobbs,
was born 184 5, married Jennie Davis 18 67. Of this union
have been born Alma Dobbs, a nurse in Teacher's College, New
York City, Leonard Dobbs and John Dobbs, Jr. John Dobbs
and family live in Mercer, Pa.

Lucinda Dobbs, fourth daughter and seventh child of
John and Mary Dobbs, married John Pyles in 18 61. Of this
union were born Clara Pyles 1862 and John Pyles deceased
and an infant deceased. Clara Pyles was married to John P.
Wyatt June 1882. They with their children reside in Steuben-
ville, Ohio. Their children are Norman Wyatt, born 1883,
married to Grace Conn, 19 09. A little daughter, Helen Louisa
Wyatt, came to gladden their home and hearts November 23,
1910.

Prank Wyatt, second son of John and Clara Wyatt was
born 188 6, married to Nellie Hoover 1910, to whom also a
little daughter, Martha Schuman Wyatt, was born July 1911.

Gladys Wyatt, daughter of John and Clara Wyatt was born
18 8 8, clerks in the Steubenville, Ohio postoffice since April
1907.

Clara E. Wyatt, second daughter of John and Clara Wyatt,
born April 1894.

Robert Dobbs, fifth son of John and Mary Dobbs, was
born 1848, married 1872 and died 1874, leaving a little

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daughter, Maud Dobbs, born 18 74. She married David Howard
Bower of Steubenville, Ohio in 1893. They have one child,,
Marian E. Bower, born February 9, 19 01.

Alexander Dobbs, sixth and youngest son of John and
Mary Dobbs, of East Liverpool, Ohio, born 1850, married Kate.
McGill, 1870. They had one daughter, Laura.

William Dobbs, fourth son of Charles and Nancy Shep-
herd Dobbs, was born in Beaver Co., Penn., in 1812, and died
at Island Creek, Ohio. Married Rebecca Bradford, but no
children.

Jane Dobbs Phillips.

Sarah Dobbs, eldest daughter of Charles and Nancy Shep-
herd Dobbs was born June 1814, married to Alexander Miller
October 1857, of which union one child was born, Crissie Jane
Miller, November 1, 1858. Sarah Dobbs Miller was noted for
her kindness and loving ministries. She was intelligent and
industrious and faithful to duty to old age. She died Febru-
ary 12, 1911. Her daughter Crissie Miller married to Seward
L. Miller November 2 0, 1882. To this union have been born,

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Edgar Earl Miller, August 29, 1883; Olive Navana Miller, born
August 15, 1887, professional nurse, Cleveland, Ohio; Roy
Miller born April 11, 1891, died August 20, 1911 and Lillie
Miller, born May 10, 1893, in school.

Jane Dobbs, second daughter and fourth child of Charles
and Nancy Shepherd Dobbs, was born 1817 and died near
Kilgore, Ohio, February 1889, aged 72. She was married to
William Phillips in 1856. They settled near Kilgore, Ohio,
where she lived until February 2 2 188 9, when she was not, for
God took her. In early life she united with the Methodist
Episcopal cliurch, and was known as a power for good, won-
derfully able in prayer, thoroughly conversant with the Word,
having committed nearly the entire New Testament to memory,
and loved by all who knew her. Slie had no children. She
sleeps in the Kilgore cemetery. Her memoriam contains these
words as appropriate to her life:

"Religion filled her soul with peace, upon a dying bed;
Let faith look up, let sorrow cease, she lives with Christ
instead."

James Dobbs, third son and fifth child of Charles and
Nency Shepherd Dobbs lived and died in Pennsylvania.

Gabriel Dobbs, fourth son and sixth child of Charles and
Nancy Shepherd Dobbs also lived and died in Pennsylvania.
He was married and had one son and four daughters: James
Wesley Dobbs, residing at Wilmington, Pa.; Nancy Dobbs, mar-
ried to — - Hazen; Sadie, married to — Boots; Jennie, also
married and Adaline deceased.

Ellen Dobbs, youngest child of Charles and Nancy Shep-
herd Dobbs, born about 1825, married John Shepherd ("Sailor
John") to whom were born three sons and a daughter, Nancy
Shepherd. The oldest child, Arthur and the mother died
shortly after the birth of the fourth child. The father with
the three remaining little ones went west.

William Shepherd, oldest son of James and Sarah Shep-
herd, was born in County Cavan, Ireland in the year 1778.
May we not pause to note the fact that in that year Ireland
was granted Home Rule, which lasted for twenty years, or until
Pitt saw the wretched results of such an effort. Almost im-
mediately there sprang up secret organizations among the
Catholics and Protestants, for the purpose of controlling the

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affairs of government. Fearing an invasion of tlie Frencli, tlie
populace were permitted to arm themselves. The societies of
Orangmen (from William of Orange), among the Protestants,
and Ribbon men among the Catholics, sprang up and prepared
to combat each other. Then appeared Tone upon the scene,
and succeeded in enlisting both Catholics and Protestants alike
in opposition to the policy of England under Pitt, resulting in
rebellion against England, which afterward sufficed as an occa-
sion of strife among Catholics and Protestants. The shocking
atrocities of 1798 culminating in the pretended protection of
defenseless men, women and children of the Protestant faith,
who, under pretense of shielding them from the Catholic mob,
were inveigled into a stone barn at Scullabogue by the Catholic
soldiery, and then the barn burned with all its inmates, a child
thrown by its mother out from the flames was instantly pierced
by the spear of a Roman Catholic soldier. This it was which
aroused William Shepherd, then twenty years old, and his
younger brother Peter, and sent them to the defense of their
countrymen of like precious faith. They both joined the
Orangemen and remained in that order till they emigrated to
America.

Some time about 1810 or earlier, William married Eliza-
beth Fee who was born in 1790, and with her emigrated to
America. Of his experience in the new world, stopping first
with his sister, Nancy Dobbs in Pennsylvania, and afterward
settling in Jefferson (now Carroll), County, Ohio, we know but
little. But he, with his young wife was the first of the family
to settle so far west, and all that may be known, and more of
the pioneer hardships of Peter and John (which see) must
have been experienced by him. He owned the first carriage
seen in those parts. He lived and died not far from the vil-
lage of Centreville, now the thriving town of Carrollton,
Ohio, where his grandson, William Shepherd, now carries on
an extensive mercantile business. He sleeps in the city ceme-
tery there, having died in 1858, aged 80 years. His wife lies
by his side, having succeeded him fourteen years later. They
were Godly noble spirits, w^ho braved all difficulties to found a
home and a name worthy of imitation by their numerous
descendants. Their children were Sarah, Thomas, John, James,
Bridget (Biddy), Ellen, William, Elizabeth and Lucinda.

Sarah E. Shepherd, oldest daughter of William and wife
was born near Carrollton, Ohio, December 2 5, 1813, married

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George Welsh in 18 38 and with him and three little children
moved to Lee County, Iowa in 18 4 2, where they endured all the
hardships of first settlers. Notwithstanding the privations of
pioneer life, they were able to bring up a large family in the
fear of the Lord, and in the spirit of energy and thrift. Their
children were, William Shepherd Welsh, deceased; Margaret,
Jane and Elizabeth Ann Welsh (twins) ; Edward Welsh,
Sarah Ellen Welsh; Mary Lucinda Welsh (deceased); George
Washington Welsh, and Martha Welsh, (deceased). Mr. Welsh
died in 1883 and in 1894 Mrs. Welsh married David Porter,
who died in 18 98. From that time till her death in March,
1904 she lived with her son George. For most of her life, or
until she was 8 5 years of age, she was a member of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, but for the last five years of her life she
was in the fellowship of the United Brethren church.

Mrs. Sarah Shei)herd Welsh.

William Shepherd Welsh, oldest son of George and Sarah
Shepherd Welsh, was born January 5, 1839, married Sarah E.
Cullum and died June 14, 1875, leaving two sons and five
daughters to the care of the widow.

Elizabeth Ann Welsh, twin daughter of George and
Sarah Welsh, was born September 1, 1841, married Charles
McNeal, August 19, 1866 at Bonaparte, la. They are the

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parents of eight children, four sons and four daughters as fol-
lows: George W. McNeal, born May 2 6, 18 67, married Feb-
ruary 10, 1900, father of one son, Rex McNeal, born January
26, 1902 and one daughter, Bonnie E. McNeal, born January
2 6, 1908 at Red Oak, lov/a; Mary Jane McNeal, second child,
born April 15, 1869, married Elza Simmons of Valisca, Iowa.
They have one daughter, Ethel Simmons, born August 4, 1889,
married Orie Ray and have three children, Ortis, Marie and
Keith Simmons; Thomas G. McNeal, third child and second
son, born December 7, 18 7 2, married March 18, 189 6. They
have one child Orvill McNeal, born July 4, 1808; Eva E.
McNeal, second daughter, born December 12, 18 74, married
Edward Melvin, July 22, 1903. Their daughters are Ruth and
lona Melvin; Benjamin McNeal, third son, born August 18,
1877, died July 26, 1878; Sarah Bertha McNeal, third daugh-
ter, born October 18, 188 0, married John Wilson. Their sons
are Roy Wilson, and Floyd who died September 9, 1909; Stella
B, McNeal, fourth daughter, born April 16, 1881, married
Charles Magers. They have four sons and one daughter.

Early Home of Mr. and Mi.s. Culluni.

Margaret Jane Welsh, second child of George and Sarah
Shepherd Welsh, was born at Mechanicstown, Ohio, Septem-
ber 1, 1841, and when a year old was taken west by her par-
ents. She married Nathaniel M. Cullum, August 2 6, 18 66 and
in 18 71 they emigrated to Kansas, taking up a homestead of
160 acres near Beloit. Like other pioneers, hardships untold
were endured, living in tents, sleeping on the ground, using

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dry-goods boxes for tables, cupboards, etc., but always cheer-
ful and happy, making the best of circumstances while their
rude log or sod houses were constructed. Living bravely on
through storms drought and failure of crops, overcoming all
obstacles, until now, by hard labor, and economy, they own
840 acres in Mitchel and Finney counties and are still living
on the old homestead, happy in the work and in the fellowship
of the Methodist church. Their children were eight, of whom
two died in infancy. All the rest, except one, are married:
Sarah Ann Cullum, oldest child, was born October 2 6, 18 67 in
Iowa, came with her parents to Kansas in 18 71, married
Harve L. Wagaman, November 13, 1887. They live at Cash-
ion, Oklahoma, and are the happy parents of seven children as
follows: Ervm Nathaniel Cullum Wagaman, born October 15,
1889; Loy Arthur Wagaman, born January 11, 1894, died
January 29, 1894; Orville Luther Wagaman, born January 24,
1895; Effie Myrtle Wagaman, born January 1 1897; Lulu
Olive Wagaman, born July 2 5, 19 00; Floyd Clifford Wagaman,
born July 2 8, 19 04; James Mitchel Wagaman, born January
5, 1907. All are at home except the oldest who is now em-
ployed on a ranch near Concordia, Kas.

Mary Laura Cullum, second daughter, born September 14,
1867, married Wm. J. Dyer, March 3, 1889, and at once set-
tled on their own farm in Decatur Co., Kas., where they now
live. Their children are Roy M. Dyer, bcrn November 20,
1891, attending school in Kansas City, Mo.; Hazel Viola Dyer,
born October 15, 1894, student in High school, Oberlin, Kas.,
and Iva Crystal Dyer, born April 2, 1906.

William A. Cullum, third child and oldest son was born
on the old homsestead, married Oct. 1, 189 9 to Alta May Gar-
ratt. They are living in Goodland, Kan., their children being
Maudie Vendetta Cullum, born August 7, 1900; Oakley Donald
Cullum, born February 10, 19 03; Marguerite I. D., born Decem-
ber 28, 1905 and Clayton Nathaniel Cullum, born January 1,
1907. They are all members of the Christian church.

Nannie Jane Cullum, fourth child, was born January 2 0,
1875 and died April 17, 1875.

Linnie Marguerite Cullum, fifth child was born on the old
homestead, married W. M. Jackson, April 2 3, 19 06 and settled
on their own farm near Luther, Oklahoma, where they still
live. Their children are Louis Wilmer Jackson, born June 5,

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19 08 and John Nathaniel Jackson, born September 15, 1910.
They are members of the Baptist church.

Nathaniel L. Cullum, born November 19, 1878, married
Edith Chase, January 6, 19 09, and are the parents of Harold
Neil Cullum, born 1909.

Frederic Carl Cullum, born September 3 0, 18 8 0, died
April 19, 1881.

Maud Elizabeth Cullum, youngest child of Mr. and Mrs.
Nathaniel M. Cullum, was born March 4, 1883, is living at
home near Beloit, Kansas.

Present Home of Mr. and Mrs. Cullum near Beloit, Kas.

Edward Welsh, second son and fourth child, born March
15, 1844, married Jane Weaver, of which union two children
were born, both dying in infancy. His first wife died in 18 94
and he afterward married Betsy Gay and with her removed to
Seattle, Washington, where he now resides; his second wife
having died also.

Sarah Ellen Welsh, fifth child and third daughter of Sarah
Shepherd and George Welsh, was born November 21, 184 6
near Bonaporte, Iowa, married to James McNeal in Clarinda,

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Iowa, in 1867. Their children are Frank McNeal and Maud
McNeal. They live on a farm of 120 acres near Valisca, la.,
where they began Housekeeping. Are members of the Chris-
tian Advent church.

Frank McNeal, son of James and Sarah E. McNeal was
born 1868, married February 12, 1896 to Minnie G. Williams.
They live on their own farm of 120 acres near Hepburn, la.,
and are members of the United Brethren church. Their chil-
dren are Mary Ellen McNeal, born 1899, and Edith May
McNeal, born 19 07.

Maud McNeal, daughter of James and Sarah E. McNeal,
born 1871, married James R. Troute November 1, 1893. They
settled near Heburn, la., but in 19 04 homesteaded in Alberta
Canada. In 19 09 they returned to Montana, where they have a
homestead of 320 acres and a happy family of six children as
follows: Atlee, 18 ears old; Feme, 14; Hilah, 12; Ural, 9;
Neal, 7, and Doris 2. They are members of the Methodist
Episcopal church.

Mary Lucinda Welsh, fourth daughter and sixth child,
born May 28, 1849, married James Owen. They had no
children. She died at Mt. Pleasant, la. in 1873.

George W. Welsh, third son and seventh child, born Feb-
ruary 4, 18 51, married Nancy M. Smith February 10, 18 7 7 to
which union were born thirteen children, six of them deceased.
George is a farmer, living at Danbury, Nebraska. His mother
made her home at the last with him.

Martha W. Welsh, youngest daughter of George and Sarah
Welsh, was born December 24, 1854, married Zeke Piper in
Page Co., la., and died September 21, 1883 leaving no chil-
dren.

Thomas Shepherd, oldest son of AVilliam and wife, was
born near CarroUton, Ohio in 1815. He married Isabel Latimer
and later settled in the west. To them were born five chil-
dren so far as known.

Elizabeth Shepherd, eldest daughter of Thomas and Isabel
Shepherd, married — Doke, who with her family, live at Fort
Worth, Texas.

James, oldest son of Thomas Shepherd and wife, mar-
ried Jennie Reed.

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Jennie Shepherd, second daughter, married — Roth,
John Shepherd, second son, and William Sheplierd, young-
est son, have each several children in the west.

John Shepherd, second son of William and Elizabeth Shep-
herd, was born 1816, married to Mary Ann Eckley. They died
leaving no children.

James Shepherd, third son of William and Elizabeth Shep-
herd, was born March 24, 1818. He married Sarah Miller, by
whom five children were born as follows: Mary E. Shepherd,
Elizabeth Shepherd, Charlotte Shepherd, Sinia Shepherd, and
William M. Shepherd. After Sarah's death he married, October
19, 1871, Mrs. Eliza. J. Hill nee Bothwell, by whom three
daughters were born: Emma Shepherd, Margaret Shepherd
and Jane Shepherd. James Shepherd died in 18 77 leaving his
second wife with three small children, the youngest a baby.

Mary Eleanor Shepherd, oldest daughter of James and
Sarah Shepherd, was born January 2 0, 1850, married James A.
Blazer, April 5, 1865. Their children were Sarah S. Blazer
and Mira I. Blazer. Sarah was born December 12, 1867, mar-
ried Jason Hawk, September 18 94 by whom four children were
born, Helen M. Hawk, born July 18, 1895, died October 13,
1895; John M. Hawk, born August 18, 1897, died December 14,
1897, and twins, Robert J. Hawk and Mary S. Hawk, born
February 14, 1901. The family are farmers near Carrollton
and members of he Methodist church. Mira I. Blazer was
born October 13, 18 69, married Edward W. Coleman, October
7, 18 9 0. They have two children, James D. Coleman, born
January 27, 1892 and Grace E. Coleman, born August 27,
1903.

James A. Blazer died May 8, 1870, and his widow, Mary
E. Shepherd Blazer married October 29, 1875 to Jonathan
Nihart. Of this union six children are born as follows: Wil-
liam Nihart, born July 4, 1876, married Eliza Dixon June 30,
19 09, to whom one child is born, Olen E. Nihart, born Septem-
ber 1, 1911. The Nihart families are farmers and Reformed.

Nina M. Nihart, oldest daughter of Jonathan and Mary E.
Nihart, was born July 20, 1879 married April 6, 1899 to George
Armstrong, a member of the Presbyterian church and a farmer.
Their children are Mary E. Armstrong, born March 6, 19 00,
Verdean A. Armstrong, born July 23, 1901, Helen C. Arm-
strong, born September 2 7, 19 04 and Lillian E. Armstrong,
born April 11, 1908.

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Emma Nihart, second daughter of Jonathan and Mary
Nihart, born May 28, 1882, married Russel McFadden, Janu-
ary 14, 1905, a member of the Presbyterian church and mail
carrier. Their children are Earl W. McFadden, born April 7,
1906, Carl J. McFadden, born August 13, 1907 and Hazel G.
McFadden, born December 18, 1910. They live at Carrollton,
Ohio.

Anna Nihart, third daughter, was born September 19,
18 8 4, married Herry Wagner, a carpenter and member of the
Reformed church, 1908. They have one child, Herman L.
Wagner, born December 30, 1908.

Edna Nihart, fourth daughter, born September 18, 188 6,
married Alex Rainsberger, March 1, 1911. They have one
child, Roxie M. Rainsberger, born 1911. They are members
of the Methodist Episcopal church and he is a brick maker.

Mary E. Nihart, youngest daughter of Jonathan and Mary
Nihart was born May 21, 1891.

Elizabeth Shepherd, second daughter, was born April 2,
18 52 and married William McCulley April 16, 1877. Their
children are James McCulley, born November 16, 18 79; Anson
McCulley, born July 20, 1882; Laura McCulley, born January
6, 1885, married December 29, 1909 to Alanson Finnicum,
having one little daughter, Mary Elizabeth Finnicum, born
June 10, 1910; and Addie McCulley, born October 6, 1887,
married February 9, 1910 to Roy Smith. The mother, Eliza-
beth Shepherd McCulley, died in October 1889 leaving he?
youngest daughter Addie on her second birthday. Thus were
four small children left when God took the mother, but all
have been cared for and prospered. James and Anson live at
Amsterdam, Ohio, are engaged in the lumber business; Laura
lives on a farm near Salineville, Ohio and Addie in the same
vicinity. The former, with family, is a Methodist, the latter
Presbyterians.

Charlotta Shepherd, third daughter of James and Sarah
Mills Shepherd, was born September 2, 18 54 married to Mel-
ville Cams, October 24, 1888. They live in a good home of
their own in Carrollton, Ohio where he is a carpenter and con-
tractor. Their children are, James W. Cams, born August 1,
1892, died June 7, 1897, a daughter, born November 16, 1897,
died November 25, 1897, and George M. Cams, born March 12,
1899.

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Winfred Shepherd was born April 19, 187 6, married June
20, 1906, and has one child, born July 1907. Winfred is in
business in Elizabeth, Colo.

Sinia Shepherd, fourth daughter, was born Jan. 26, 1859,
married to David Blaer, November 29, 1883. They were mem-
bers, also of the Methodist Episcopal church. A little daugh-
ter Emma Blazer was born September 2 8, 1884, and a son,
James, born August 9, 1888, died May 18, 1903, and Olive
Blazer, born April 14, 1890. The mother, Sinia Blazer died
September 25, 1891, when her babe was but little over a ye:i-
old. Emma Blazer, daughter of Sinia and David Blazer, mai •
ried Junius Roudebush May 27, 1891. The families of Sini:^
Blazer reside at Carrollton, Ohio.

William M. Shepherd, only son of James and Sarah Mills
Shepherd, was born March 21, 1861, married Mary E. Whit-
craft June 20, 1889. Their children are Leland Henry Shep-
herd, born June 19, 1890 and Lois Gertrude Shepherd, born
October 30, 1894. They are both graduates of high school and
are at home with their parents in Carrollton, Ohio, where the
father has for a goodly number of years been engaged in busi-
ness, having the largest general store in the city, or in that
part of the state. William and his family are members of the
Methodist Episcopal church and for honor, integrity and devo-
tion to the right are esteemed by all who know them.

Emma Shepherd, oldest daughter of James and Eliza J.
Shepherd, was born September 2 0, 18 72, married to Hiram
Scott, September 2 9, 1892. They are the parents of Arthur
Scott, born September 1893, died October 31, 1893; Brice Scott,
born January 7, 1895; Owen Scott, born January 29, 1897;
Emmet Scott, born March 31, 1899; Perry Scott, born October
19, 1901, and Dwight L. Scott, born August 20, 1906. The
family live on a farm near Carrollton, Ohio, and are Presby-
terians.

Margaret Shepherd, second daughter, was born May 6,
1874, married to Jasper Roudebush, January 10, 1900, by the
author of this history, who was at that time pastor of the First
Presbyterian church of Carrollton, Ohio. Their children are.
Alma Roudebush, born April 3, 1901, and Martha Roudebush,
born October 15, 19 05. They own and live upon a good farm
near Carrollton, and are members of the Disciple church,

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Jane Shepherd, youngest daughter of James and Eliza J.
Shepherd, was born September 15, 1876 and after teaching
scliool for several years settled down with her mother on the
Shepherd homestead near Carroliton. She and her mother are
faithful members of the Presbyterian church of Carroliton,
Ohio and beloved by a host of friends.

Bridget, known as Biddie, Shepherd, second daughter of
William and Elizabeth Fee Shepherd, was born near Carroliton,
in 1821. She married William Crawford, of which union was
born one child, Elizabeth Crawford, born November 18, 1843,
the mother dying when her babe was small and the daughter
following to the City of God in September 1864.

Ella Shepherd, third daughter of William and Elizabeth
Fee Shepherd, was born April 10, 1823, married John
McLaughlin in 1846 and died May 28, 1849. Their children
were Jennie B. McLaughlin, born January 24, 1847, and Wil-
liam McLaughlin, born May 9, 1849. His mother died when he
was but nineteen days old.

Jennie McLaughlin married James Little, February 2 6,
18 91. They live upon a farm near Homeworth, Ohio, and are
members of the United Presbyterian church.

Wm. McLaughlin, the son, married Laura Shepherd, May
6, 1878. Their children are Cordia, Charles and Rosco. Cor-
dia McLaughlin was born February 18, 1880, married to
James Gotschall 189 7. They have three children. Hazel Got-
shall, born July 7, 18 9 9, Ethel Grace Gotshall born September
11, 1901 and Carl Gotshall, born February 29, 1904. He is a
farmer, member of the Presbyterian church, living at Kilgore,
Ohio.

Ross McLaughlin, oldest son, born September 28, 1882;
Charles McLaughlin, born February 28, 1884, married Frances
Edwards, January 18, 1911, resides in Carroliton and is a
plumber by trade.

William Shepherd, fourth son of William and Elizabeth
Fee Shepherd, was born 18 2 5 and died in early life from scarlet
fever.

Elizabeth Shepherd, fourth daughter, born 1827, died in
infancy from scarlet fever.

Lucinda Shepherd, youngest daughter of William and
Elizabeth Fee Shepherd, was born 1829. She lived with her

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father on the old homestead until his death, then with her
brother James at the same place until his death in 18 7 7 and
after that with his widow and her daughters, kindly cared for,
until her death in November 190 6.

Peter Shepherd, son of James and Sarah Shepherd, was
born in Parish of Drumlane, County Cavan, Ireland, about the
year 1778. He was a young man at the time of the conflict
with the Catholics of 179 8 and with his brother William had
part in that trying time, becoming a member of the Orangemen.
He came to America in 18 08. Of his experience for four years,
a stranger in the new world, but little is known, neither of his
long time on the ocean, required then by slow sailing vessels.
In April 1812 he secured a government patent to 160 acres of
land two miles west of Amsterdam, the farm now owned by
Taylor Montgomery. This government title is signed by Presi-
dent Madison, and Sect, of State Monroe and is dated April 20,
1812. Shortly after this he sailed for Ireland at about the
time his parents and brothers embarked for America. In 1814
he married in Ireland, Jane Shepherd, daughter of William
Shepherd and sister of James, and with her returned to Ameri-
ca, settling in Monroe county where he soon had extensive
landed interests. A statement of account of that period reads
as follows: "Woodsfield, November 26, 1816. Mr. Peter
Shepherd bought of David Kirkbride, by his lady, three and
one-fourth yards Cazsinett, 94 cents per ya^d, $3.05; two skeins
silk, six cents, 12 cents; two yards muslin, twenty-two cents,
44 cents; 1 pound alum, 12 cents, total $3.74."

A tax receipt for the farm near Amsterdam dated
December 19th, 1816 for the years 1814, 15 and 16 reads:
"Received of Peter Shepherd, by the hand of N. Wintenger,
fifteen dollars, two and four tenths cents." This farm he sold
to Robert McKeown, March 20th 1836 for $1400 and, in the
deed, he spells his name for the first time with but one "h"
(Sheperd). His wife spells it with two.

His naturalization papers were dated August 2 5th, 1828.
He spent most of his life in Jefferson and Carroll Counties, he
and his sons looking after the lands in Monroe, traveling these
75 miles over trackless hills. Of him General E. R. Eckley,
recently deceased, said: "He was at one time wealthy, but lost
much through litigation. He was strictly honest and expected
everybody else to be so. He was of strong convictions and bull-
dog tenacity. His favorite saying was, 'Do you mind me?'

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Peter Shepherd's word never fell to the ground." He died in

18 6 7 in his ninetieth year. His wife, Jane Shepherd, who
sleeps in Amsterdam cemeery, died in 18 4 8, aged almost 5 7
years. Her children all held her in loving, tender remem-
brance as a most patient, faithful, devoted Christian mother.
She was a charter member of the Presbyterian church of Har-
lem Springs, Ohio, and the beautiful epitaph upon her tomb
truly expresses the character and life of one of God's noble
women. To Peter and Jane Shepherd were born ten children,
five sons and five daughters. The first born, a son, was killed
in childhood by a runaway horse.

Dorcas, first daughter of Peter and Jane Shepherd, was
born about October 1818. She was married to William Hickox
in 1850 and died in 1902 aged 84 years. Her son recalls the
story of her toil as a little girl in those pioneer days. Work
too hard today for children of any age, fiax pulling, and care
of the same, logging, going to mill with sacks tied upon the
horse, shoveling grain for winnowing chalf, etc.

George L. Hickox, eldest son of William and Dorcas Shep-
herd Hickox, was born in 1851 and died 1898. He married
Mattie Strone in 1876 to which union were born two daugh-
ters: Nellie Dorcas, born 1877 and married to George E.
Mowen 19 01, residing at Columbiana, Ohio. They had three
children, Mildred Edith Mowen, born 19 05; Cecil Mowen, born
1908, deceased, and Ellis Leeland Mowen, born 1909 also de-
ceased.

Edith Mary, second daughter of George and Mattie Hickox
was born 1880, married 1905 to James H. Johnston, with
whom she lives in Akron, Ohio. They have three children:
Vernon Stanley Johnston, born 1906; Erdine Odessa, born

19 09, and Lillian Myrtle born 1911. George Hickox was a
faithful member of the Methodist church, a Godly man.

Samuel P. Plickox, second son, and twin, of Cleveland,
Ohio, was born in 1853. He, as his brother George, is a car-
penter and contractor. He was married to Louisa M. Diehl in
1879. Of this union are five children: Dora Louisa, born
1883, married to Wood D. King a farmer of Warren, Ohio.
They have one little girl, Helen Adelaide, born 1907; Iva Belle
Hickox, second daughter of Samuel and Louisa Hickox, born
1885, resides in Cleveland, Ohio and is engaged in advertising;
Charles McKinley Hickox, oldest son of Samuel and Louisa

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Hickox, born 1889, is a draftsman in Cleveland; John Dilley
Hickox, second son, born 1891 engaged in real estate, Cleve-
land; Francis Lura Hickox, born 1894, high school student.

Susan J. Hickox, twin sister of Samuel P., born 1853,
was married to Jacob H. Ulrich, 1874. Two sons, William
and Frank, grace this union. William was born 1875 and
married December 19 05 to Mae Shaffer. They live at Wildare,
Ohio, and have no children. Frank L. Ulrich was born
1878, married Frances Shaffer 1900. To them have been born
Glen H. Ulrich 19 01 and Olive Margaret Ulrich 1906. Frank
lives on a ranch near Armistead, N. Mexico. His mother, a
widow, lives on another ranch near. William is a carpenter and
contractor.

Henry C. Hickox was born 1856 and married to Nancy
Lichleiter 1882. Of this marriage are born, Carl Henry 1884,
a successful business man, married and living in New Castle,
Pa.; Kenneth born 188 9, an extensive builder and contractor
of Long Beach, Calif.; Marion, born 1891, graduate high
school of Warren, Ohio, living at home with her parents at
Long Beach, Calif.; Olive, born 1894 and Mayne, born 1895,
each in high school. Henry Hickox has been successful in
business, in contracting and in his home life. He cared for his
mother in her last years and is, with his family, a member of
the United Brethren church. His home is temporarily in Cali-
fornia as he has a good home in Warren, Ohio.

Mary Ann Shepherd, second daughter of Peter and Jane
Shepherd was born about 182 0, married to Thomas Bothwell of
Monroe County, Ohio in 1847 and died 1860. Their children
were, George W. Bothwell, born 1850, a teacher for a time,
graduated from Adrian College, Mich., receiving at a very early
age, the honorary degree of D.D. from his Alma Matre; gradu-
ated from Yale Divinity School; President of a college in Cali-
fornia and pastor of a large Congregational church in Brook-
lyn, N. Y., where he died in 1891. Dr. Bothwell married Cath-
erine Clark of Patterson, N. J. in 1891 and was the father of
two daughters, Mary Clark Bothwell, born 1887 and Ada Both-
well, born 1889.

Mary J. Bothwell, daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann
Bothwell, was born 1851 and died in 1880 of tuberculosis.

John Bothwell, second son, born 18 5 3 was a successful
teacher for several years but yielded up his life to lung trouble
in 1878.

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Rev. George W. Bothwell, D.D.

Orlando David Friend.

Christiana Bothwell, born 1855, taught school for a year
or two, married Robert J. Burdett in 1878 and died 1879.

Ancella Bothwell, born 1857, taught school, married to
William Friend 18 7 8, with whom she lives in Alliance, Ohio.
Their children are: Lelia A. Friend, born 1879, died 1881;
Elvia Janette Friend, born March 1882, married to William
Roberts 1897, to w^hom was born Daisy Nettie Roberts 1901.
Elvia Janette Roberts married Fred Becker 1906. Their chil-
dren are Bertha May Becker, born 19 07; Edwin W. Becker,
born 1909 and Dorothy Margaret Becker, born 1911.

Thomas George Friend, born 1884, died 1891.

Orlando David Friend, born March 188 6; Express Messen-
ger on the Penn. R. R. Alliance, Ohio.

Mattie May, youngest daughter of William and Ansella
Friend, born 1888, married Paul Becker 1905. Their children,
Matilda Elvia Becker, born 1908 and Mattie Letitia Becker,
born August 1910.

Newton Milton Shepherd, son of Mary and Jane Shepherd,
was born about 1821 and died 1885. He was married to Mary
Shepherd, daughter of John and Margaret Shepherd 184 6, and

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settled in Monroe County, Ohio. Four children were born of
this union. His wife died January 1858. He married Mar-
garet Taylor March 1859, to which union were born seven
children. His life from childhod was one of hard toil, but he
accumulated a competence, which by the panic of 18 73 suffered
great diminution. He was ruggedly honest, a devout Christ-
ian, an original thinker and a man whose memory is blessed.
He sought, in spite of disadvantages incident to pioneer life,
in his young manhood, an education, and was able to teach
school for some time. The writer is the possessor of an old
copy of Josephus, for which Milton Shepherd dug ditches 16
days at 5 0 cents per day. His widow, Margaret Shepherd still
survives at Preeport, Ohio.

Newton Milton Shepherd. Mrs. Margaret Shepherd.

Peter C. Shepherd, oldest son of Milton and Mary Shep-
herd, was born July 1847, and after teaching school for one
year, he married Margaret Barnes and settled on a farm near
Athens, Ohio. Of this union were born two daughters, the
first born dying in infancy, the second, Blanche Shepherd, born
1871 married J. C. Pritchard in 1894 and died in New Phila-
delphia, Ohio in 1905 leaving two children, Paul and Madaline
Pritchard. Margaret Barnes Shepherd died in 1874 and in 1875
Peter C. Shepherd married Anna Hance, who survives him.
Their children were Willis Shepherd, born 1876 and Mamie
Shepherd born 18 79. Peter Shepherd graduated from Chicago

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Medical College and was a practicing physician in Iowa, when
he was stricken with smallpox from which he died in 1881.

John Marshall, second son, was born 1849 and died 1857,
a year before his mother.

Leander William Shepherd, third son, was born 1853,
married to Clara Weaver 18 8 7. They have two children: Leoti
Vernon Shepherd, born 18 9 2, graduate of Columbus high
schools and Helen Margaret born 18 9 6, pupil in high school
of Columbus, Ohio. Leander Shepherd (Sheppard) taught
school for years, was Superintendent of schools and is now the
head of Sheppard Publishing Co., Columbus, Ohio, publishers
of school registers, reports and artistic diplomas.

Mrs. and 31r. Emmet J. Taylor, Olive Leiiore Smith, Mrs. Olive

Johnston, Harry Taylor, J. W. Taylor, Mrs. Ola Smith,

Joshua Johnston, Baby Zelma M. Johnston, Mrs.

J. W. Taylor.

Margaret Jane Shepherd, daughter of Milton and Mary
Shepherd, born 1855, married to John W. Taylor, January
18 80, resides upon a splendid farm near Guernsey, Iowa, where
her husband, with her help, has made good as a business man,
a farmer, and a Christian gentleman. Their children are: Ola
Mary, born 1880, a teacher and Superintendent of schools with
a state certificate. She was married to E. S. Smith, 1901 and

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has one child, Olive Lenore, born 19 03; Olive Pearl Taylor,
second daughter of John and Margaret Shepherd Taylor, was
born 18 82, taught school for several years, married Joshua
Johnston 19 09 and has one daughter, Zelma Margaret John-
ston, born 1911. They reside on their farm near Guernsey, Iowa.

Emmet J. Taylor, son of John and Margaret Taylor was
born 188 4 and after finishing school entered extensively into
farming and stock raising. He married Mary A. Johnston in
1909. Harry Taylor, youngest son, was born in 1891, gradu-
ated from Guernsey high school in 1906, taught school at 18
years of age, is a fine musician and a practical farmer. The
entire family are members of the Methodist church and politi-
cally proud to be Prohibitionists.

John Franklin Shepherd, eldest son of Milton and Mar-
garet Taylor Shepherd, was born 18 6 0 and grew to manhood
on the farm. He held the Guernsey County Scholarship in
The Ohio University at Athens, graduated from the Theological
Seminary of Dayton, Ohio, in 188 8, completed Post graduate
studies in Otterbein University (Ph. D.) 18 93 and received the
honorary degree (D.D.) from Richmond College in 1905. He
preached in the United Brethren church, serving the first
churches of Denver Colo, and Akron, Ohio, and as Presiding
Elder. In 189 6 he entered the ministry of the Presbyterian
church and is now pastor of the Third Church of Toledo,
Ohio, with a membership of almost 6 00. He has received over
1300 into church fellowship, has built three churches and two
manses, and has never been without charge a day. He is
author of historical and biblical charts and other important
publications. In 1910 he traveled in Europe, Egypt and the
Holy Land. He has served his church in almost every official
position. He married Sada M. Leggett of New Philadelphia,
Ohio in September 1883. Of this union are born, Olive Oresco
Shepherd, January 1885, student in Lincoln and Hastings, Ne-
braska Conservatories, and piano teacher. She was married
May 19 07 to Roy Lewis, machinist, in the employ of the Union
Pacific R. R. Fremont, Neb. They are the happy parents of
Frances Ruth Lewis, born February 18, 1912. They are mem-
bers of the Presbyterian church, Hattie Bernice, second
daughter of John F. and Sada Shepherd, was born, September
188 6, a graduate of Fairbury, Nebraska, high school, sudent
for one year in Parkville College, taught school for four years,
married to Prof. Charles S. Miller, superintendent of schools,

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Tontogany, Ohio, December 1910. A son, Boyce Franklin,
came to gladden their lives November 6, 1911. They are Pres-
byterians.

Roy Lewis, Baby Frances Ruth Lewis, Mrs. Olive Lewis,

C. S. Miller, Mrs. Hattie Miller, Baby Boyce Franklin Miller,

Ruth M. Shepherd, John F. Shepherd, Mrs. Sadie

Shepherd, Helen E. Shepherd.

Ruth Margaret Shepherd, third daughter, born September
1892 is a graduate of Toledo high schools, a student of Winona
Lake Conservatory, Indiana and a piano teacher.

Helen Esther, youngest daughter, born August 1895, is a
Junior in Toledo high school.

Anna Mary Shepherd, daughter of Milton and Margaret
Shepherd was born September 1861, married to William Pritch-
ard, a farmer near Preeport, Ohio. Their children are Ola
Pritchard born 1882, at home; Otis Newton Pritchard, born
1885, farmer and Andrew Pritchard, born 1900.

James Wilbur, second son of Milton and Margaret Shep-
herd was born September 1863 and died in Coshocton, Ohio,
Oct. 19, 1894. He graduated with honor from the Theological

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Seminary at Dayton, Ohio in 189 0 and served as pastor of the
United Brethren churches in Marietta and Ashland, Ohio, and
at the time of his death was the greatly beloved pastor of the
church of Coshocton, Ohio, where he was building a fine church
when stricken with typhoid fever. He married Kate Smith in
18 9 0 by whom he had a son and a daughter. His faithful wife,
after his death, returned to teaching and by a genuine heroism
has been able to bring up her son Frank Watson Shepherd,
born October 1891 and Pauline Wilburta, born October 1893.
They have both graduated from the Westerville high school,
where they reside, and are now students in Otterbein Uni-
versity.

Rev. J. W. Shepherd, (Photo 1890.) l»auliiie W. Shepherd,
Frank \V. Shepherd, Mrs. Kate Shepherd.

Taylor C. Shepherd, third son of Milton and Margaret
Shepherd, born August 18 6 5, was married to Emma Smith Nov-
ember 1896. They have no children except an adopted son.
He is an extensive farmer and ranch owner, having a fine farm
near Fairbury, Neb., and living upon a large ranch near Ala-
mosa, Colo. They are members of the Presbyterian church.

Samuel D. Shepherd, of Freeport, Ohio, fourth son, born
March 1868, was married to Maggie Smith in 1897, March 17.
They have a son Delbert N., born June 1902 and a daughter,

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Ruth M., born August 1907. Samuel owns the homestead of
his father, and another farm, is engaged in farming, in buying
and shipping hay, and is, with his wife, a member of the United
Presbyterian church. Politically he is independent, being an
original thinker in matters of political economy and govern-
ment.

Amanda Shepherd, second daughter of Milton and Mar-
garet Shepherd, was born April 18 7 0, taught school for a num-
ber of years and married Marvin Davidson 1903. Of this union
are two sons. Homer Davidson, born 19 05 and Arthur David-
son, born 19 09. They live upon a good farm of their own near
Freeport, Ohio, are both members of church.

Huoh Franklin, William Byron,

John Ikiiris, Mis. Julia K. Bniris,

Xornia M., John \V., Amanda L.,

Julia Florence Shepherd, youngest daughter, was born
September 18 72, taught school for a number of years and in
December 1899 was married to John Burris, a prosperous
farmer of Ohio City, Ohio. Their children are Norma Margaret,
born July 1901; Hugh Franklin, born June 19 03; Wm. Byron,
born June 1905; Armanda Louisa, born July 190 7; John Wil-
bur, born July 1909; sixth child, Hazel Florence, was born April
12, 1912. They are Evangelical Lutherans.

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George Shepherd, second son of Peter and Jane Shepherd
was born 1823 and died 18 66. He was married to Belinda
Allman. They have no children except an adopted son.

James Shepherd, third son of Peter and Jane Shepherd,
was born about 18 2 6 and died in Harlem Springs, Ohio, 18 91.
In 18 5 3 he married Martha Wiggins. He owned and farmed
land in Monroe, Guernsey and Carroll Counties. He with all
his family were of the Presbyterian faith. There were five
children born in this family: Sylvester P. W. Shepherd, who
married Amina Smith 18 84. The children of Sylvester and
Amina Shepherd are Ethelbert who died 19 04 just before he
was to begin his first term of school; Blanche, a graduate of
the school of Oratory, Scio 1911, and teacher in the Primary
schools of that town; James, also a graduate of the school of
Oratory, and teacher in the grammar grade of Bergholz, Ohio
schools; Craig, who died in childhood, 18 94 and Thomas W.
pupil in the high school of Scio, and in the employ of the Penn.
R. R. Sylvester and family live in Scio, and he is a traveling
salesman.

Savannah R. Shepherd, daughter of James and Martha
Shepherd, was married to Thomas Orr 18 7 6 and now resides in
Eldon, Mo. They have no children.

Sarah E. Shepherd, daughter of James and Martha Shep-
herd, married H. J. Meek, 1886. To this union were born twin
children, a boy and a girl, both dying in infancy, 188 9, the
mother following in death the next year.

Oella J. Shepherd, youngest daughter, married Prank R.
Duff 1886. To them was born one daughter, Grace, who died
at Wellsville, Ohio, 1902; the mother dying in 1889.

Abel M. Shepherd, youngest son of James and Martha, a
graduate of Harlem Springs College, and now a minister in the
Presbyterian church, at Peru, Neb., was married to Elizabeth
J. Poole 1890. Their children are: Muriel and Helen, both high
school teachers; Gertrude, who died in 189 6 and Bulah a high
school pupil.

John Shepherd, youngest son of Peter and Jane Shepherd
was born about 1828, married Delila Moffat of Monroe County,
Ohio, and died in 1865. His children were two daughters who
died in infancy and four sons, James, George, William and Man-
nasseh, who removed from Ohio into West Virginia about 18 80.

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Christianna Shepherd, third daughter of Peter and Jane
Shepherd was born 1830 and died at Londonderry, Ohio, 1867.
She was a brilliant woman, a devoted Christian and was taken
from her two little daughters only too soon, as viewed from
this side. She was married to James Hastings in 1854. Their
children were William Stockton Hastings, born 1855, died in
infancy; Mary Malinda Hastings, born 186 0, and Julia Etta
Hastings, born 18 64. Mary M. Hastings was married to Oscar
Griffin in 1882. Their children are Myrtle O. Griffin, born 1885
and married 1910 to Harry W. King. They have a baby daugh-
ter. Their home is in Dayton, Wash.; J. Fay Grifhn was born in
1887, married at West Lafayette, Ohio in 1907 to S. Zeno Var-
ner. They live at Walla Walla, Wash., and have one son,
Selwyn Hastings Varner, born 1908. Both Myrtle and Fay
were teachers before marriage.

Rodney Hastings Grifhn, son of Oscar and Mary M. Griffin
was born in 189 0 and is engaged in business with his father in
Dayton, Wash. L. Dorthea Griffin was born 189 2 and is living
at home with her parents.

Julia Etta Hastings was married to C. Kent Smith in Chi-
cago, 111., in January 1889, and died in February 1899, in Gar-
field Hospital, Chicago. Her husband followed her in 19 05,
leaving their little daughter Mabel, born in November 1889, to
the care of her aunt Mary. Right lovingly was this task per-
formed, for Mary Griffin had known the sorrows of a mother-
less child, and her large sympathy, born of a large heart and a
larger brain, if possible, was equal to the task, as the author
well knows. The Griffins are Presbyterians and more than once
has the pastor in Deersville, or West Lafayette, Ohio had occa-
sion to counsel Mary, or "Maud" as she is familiarly called,
almost to the exclusion of his session, for the church is upon
her heart.

Julia A. Shepherd, fourth daughter of Peter and Jane
Shepherd, was born March 16, 1832 and was married to Wil-
liam Longsworth January 1, 1852, and died June 18, 1857,
leaving behind her one little son to the care of the father, who
afterward married and who died October 16, 1900.

John C. Longworth, only son of Wm. and Julia A. Long-
worth was born September 15, 1853, and married to Florence
E. Lemon, November 15, 1876. Their children are nine in
number as follows: A son born September 1, 1877 died in

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infancy; F. Gertrude Longsworth, born October 1, 1878, at the
head of the Notion Department of Potter Davis Dry Goods Co.,
Cambridge, Ohio; Edna May Longsworth, born May 5, 1880,
Principal of the central school of Cambridge; Julia Alta
Longsworth, born February 12, 1882, a homekeeper with her
mother; Nellie Jane Longsworth, born December 2, 1883, mar-
ried June 20, 1906, to Jay W. Campbell, Secretary-Treasurer of
the Smith Bros. Mfg. Co. and a stockholder in the plant. They
live in their own home on East Gomber St., Cambridge, Ohio;
Mary Louella Longsworth, born November 24, 1888, stenogra-
pher and book-keeper for the Virgo Clay Co.; Lura Ada Longs-
worth, born May 8, 1890, in charge of Cosmetics, Potter Davis
Co.; William C. Longsworth, born January 5, 1895, student in
Cambridge high school, and Ruth Evelyn Longsworth, born
July 27, 1897, pupil in the graded schools.

John C. Longsworth has a lucretive business as a con-
tracting painter and decorator and has seven men in his em-
ploy. He is for years active in the councils of the Republican
party, having served as Message Clerk of the Ohio House of
Representatives from 1886 to 1890. In 1894 he was elected
Mayor of Cambridge and had much to do with the growth and
permanent improvements of that thriving city. At this time
he is a candidate for Clerk of Courts before the primaries. He
and his family occupy a good home at 3 09 N. 7th St. Cam-
bidge, Ohio.

Jane Shepherd, youngest daughter of Peter and Jane Shep-
herd, was born in 1834, married to Robert Hastings 1856. Their
children were Christianna, William S., Salina Florence, Ella,
Rena and Frances Georgianna. The last named died in early
childhood and was buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery near
Freeport, Ohio. In March 1884 the family left Freeport, Ohio
and settled in Missouri, where Robert Hastings died September
1901, and Jane Shepherd Hastings in May 1903. They sleep in
a country cemetery near Hickory Hill, Mo., having left behind
them the record of an unshaken faith in the Divine Christ, and
of an open hand and heart for every Godlike cause.

Christina Hastings, oldest daughter of Robert and Jane
Shepherd Hastings, was born in 18 57, married to J. W. Herring
in June 1888. Her husband died leaving her without children.
She is engaged in the grocery business in Columbia, Mo.

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William Shepherd Hastings, only son of Robert and Jane
Hastings, was born April 4, 1860 and married Pauline Guen-
ther January 2, 1892, They have no children. He was for a
time a student in Adrian College, Mich. He taught school and
farmed in Missouri from 1884 to 1892. After his marriage he
engaged extensively in business in Missouri and at Blooming-
ton, 111. In 1907 he located at Ripley, Okla., where he is pro-
prietor of large mercantile interests; his extensive store and
equipment being valued at $4 0,000 above indebtedness. Hav-
ing no children of their own, they are recognized as "Uncle
Will and Mother," by all the young people of the town. Mr.
and Mrs. Hastings are earnest Christians and continually seek
to promote the interests of the Kingdom.

Salina Florence, known generally as 'Flo," second daugh-
tre, was born in 1862, married to Dr. T. J. Jordan in 1889 and
on March 7, 1891 twin boys, Ray and Roy, were born to them.
The boys had the advantage of a high school education in Col-
umbia, Mo., and Ray added to this a business course. Ray is
now stenographer for Senator Beauford at Ellington, Mo., and
Roy is employed with his uncle Will at Ripley, Okla. Dr. Jor-
dan died in 1904, leaving the boys but 13 years old. Six years
later "Flo" again married, George Fenton of Columbia, a
wretch unworthy of her, and with whom she could not live, and
because she could not live with him, he followed her to the
home of her sister and cruelly shot her to death. He w^as tried
in 1912 and sent to the penitentiary for life. The sons, Ray
and Roy are well equipped for capital and will engage in busi-
ness together.

Ella, third daughter, was born 1869, married to W. N. Bow-
man 1890. They conducted a store at Hickory Hill, Mo., until
1910 when they settled in Washington. Their two girls gradu-
ated from the high schools of Seattle in May 1912, and the two
boys, younger, are with their parents on their large fruit-ranch
at Fruitland, Wash.

Rena Hastings died in 1885, in young womanhood, and,
with her sister, "Flo," sleeps by the side of her father and
mother near Hickory Hill, awaiting the call of the master.

James Shepherd, third son of James and Sarah Shep-
herd, was born in Ireland about 1785, and died March 1st,
1865, in the 80th year of his age. He married Jane Anderson,

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and settled upon a farm of his own near Wellsville, Colum-
biana County, Ohio, but later sold out and removed to Knox-
ville, Jefferson County. They had no children. He, with his
wife, Jane, sleep in the Somerset cemetery, and the shaft which
marks their grave contains, besides their names, which are
spelled Shepperd, and dates, this inscription:

"In peaceful slumbers we repose

Till God shall bid us rise;
When upward we will then ascend,

To meet Him in the skies."

John Shepherd, fourth son of James and Sarah was born
1788, and, when his aged father and mother with Thomas, left
Ireland for America in 1812, he was pressed into the service of
England in the war then waging. His parents and Thomas
came on without him. Later he joined them in their cabin
home in America. After several years of hard work clearing
land, digging mill races, etc., he met and married Margaret
Montgomery, and with her settled upon 160 acres in the woods
near the present town of Amsterdam. He had no horse with
which to farm, so, leaving his young wife in the wild forest
cabin, he spent the winter in Pennsylvania threshing grain with
a flail for the tenth, and with the money so earned, purchased
a horse. But the horse was stolen where he stopped at night
on his way home and he was given a horse by his father-in-law.
Wild game, and wild beasts abounded and many were the ex-
periences and most exciting through which he and his young
wife passed. Marketing at Steubenville twenty miles distant,
husband and wife riding horse back, each with a sack with
crocks of butter or lard in each end and with a dressed hog
before them on the horse. This sturdy pioneer with his wife
were devout Methodists, he a life long democrat. They pros-
pered by frugal industry and integrity, rearing a large family
and leaving to his heirs 508 acres of well improved land. He
died in 1867, aged 79; she in 1873. They sleep in the Amster-
dam cemetery.

Sarah Shepherd, daughter of John and Margaret, married
Elias Wilson of Monroe Co. Of this union were born, John
Wilson, a prosperous farmer, who married Lucy Shepherd,
Hammondsville, Ohio; Mary Eliza, married to Emmet Calhoun,

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a successful farmer and business man near Amsterdam, Ohio;
James, supposed to be deceased and Jane who married Phene
Lowery, a merchant of Paden City, W, Va. They have one son,
Thomas Lowery.

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Mrs. Mary Calhoun.

Jane Shepherd, second daughter of John and Margaret
Shepherd, born 1819, married Andrew Jackman February 24,
1848 and settled on a farm in Vinton County, Ohio. The land
was wild, and in building, clearing and hard work, theirs was
all the experience of pioneers. She, with her family, was a
faithful member of the Methodist church, and exemplified in
all her life true nobility of character. She died May 11, 1893,
aged 73 years.

John H. Jackman, eldest son of Jane and Andrew Jack-
man, born March 18, 184 9, died March 12, 19 06. His Christian
life was marked by its reverence for God's name and for loyalty
to truth. James M. Jackman, second son, born at Richland,
Ohio, April 17, 1853, where he still lives upon the old home-
stead as a farmer.

Thomas W. Jackman, third son, born September 2 7, 11
a farmer, residing at McArthur, Ohio.

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54.

George W. Jackman, fourth son, born January 3 0, 1857 is
a glassworker, living in Columbus, Ohio. He married Melissa
Ritenhouse, May 25, 1892. Their children are David L. Jack-
man aged 17, a glassworker, residing at home, and three who
died in infancy.

Lewis E. Jackman, fifth son, born July 13, 1859, occupa-
tion, watchman, resides at Columbus Ohio. He married Emma
M. Reynolds, April 23, 1884. Their children are Mary Jane
Jackman, born January 30, 1885, graduate of Jackson Business
College, married Laurence J. Keitz, of Columbus, September
11, 1907. Nellie E. Jackman, second daughter of Lewis and
Emma, born May 11, 1888, graduate of Mann's School of Short
Hand, Columbus, Ohio, married A. D. Holiday, July 14, 1907;
resides in Columbus, Ohio.

Asa S. Jackman, sixth and youngest son of Jane and
Andrew Jackman, born March 2 4, 18 62 died September 21,
1910. He was a cement worker by trade, a quiet, faithful
Christian man.

Mary Shepherd, third daughter of John and Margaret
Shepherd married Milton Shepherd and with him settled in
Monroe Co., Ohio. (For lineage, see Milton Shepherd.)

Ann Shepherd, fourth daughter of John and Margaret,
married George McCorkhill, settling in Ross County, Ohio. To
this union were born four children: John, Sarah, George and
Margaret, the latter married to Edgar Wright. John is said to
be dead; Sarah died leaving no children, and George ("Dock")
lives at Schooley Station, Ross County.

John Shepherd, son of John and Margaret Shepherd, was
born in 1823. He was married to Mary Ann, daughter of
Major Charles Smith, in 18 53. They settled upon a farm in
Lewis County, Ky., but in 1859 returned to Jefferson County,
Ohio. In 18 62 he moved to Indiana, and a year later back to
his Kentucky farm, which he sold in 186 5 and purchased the
farm on which he and his wife lived and died, the farm now
owned by his son J. T. Shepherd. He and his wife were mem-
bers of the Methodist church and he was politically a Democrat.
At his death he left to his heirs 271 acres of land near Am-
sterdam. Of the union of John and Mary Shepherd were born
five children, James T., Francis L., John W., Vaughn and
Addie. John died in 1867 and his wife in 18 7 3. They sleep in
Amsterdam Cemetery.

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Lulu M. Shepherd, John T. Shepherd, Hazel F. Shepherd,
James T. Shepherd, Elsie V. Shepherd, Mrs. Mira Shepherd,

(Photo, April, 1912)

James T. Shepherd, eldest son of John and Mary Ann Shep-
herd, was born in Kentucky 1854. He received his education in
Harlem Springs and Richmond Colleges, and became an expert
teacher of penmanship. From 18 79 to 1880 he was engaged
in mercantile lines in Leasville, Ohio. He then gave attention
to the buggy and carriage business, and has built up a large
trade throughout eastern Ohio. He has extensive land inter-
ests and town property in Amsterdam, owns and lives upon a
beautiful homestead which is covered with oil wells. James
T. was married in 188 9 to Miss Mira Wilson, daughter of Elias
and Margaret Wilson. Of this union are born six children:
Lulu Mary, a teacher in the public schools of Amsterdam; John
T., a student in Oberlin Business College; Hazel P., a student
in the Amsterdam high school; Margaret, deceased at 9 years;
Lela C, deceased at 1 year and Elsie Verne.

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Country Home of James T. Shepheid near Amsterdam, U.

Francis L. Shepherd, second son of John and Mary Shep-
herd is a prominent farmer and stock raiser near Cleveland,
Tenn. He is married and has no children.

John W. and Vauhn Shepherd both died in childhood.

Addie Shepherd, only daughter of John and Mary Shep-
herd was married to A. M. Watson, a prominent farmer near
Amsterdam. She was translated to Heaven December 18, 1911.
They had three children, William J. and Mary Addie, who are
at home, and a babe who died in infancy. All of the children
and grand children of John and Mary Ann Shepherd are faith-
ful members of the Methodist church.

James Shepherd, second son of John and Margaret Shep-
herd, was married to Lucinda Miller, and settled upon the old
homestead of his father. There were five children born to
them: James, Mary, Sanford, Alice and one who died in in-
fancy. All of the children have gone to the "City whose streets
are full of boys and girls, playing in the streets thereof." After
the death of their children, Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd removed to
Carrollton, Ohio, where he died and where she still survives
him,

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James Shepherd. Mrs. Lucinda Shepherd.

Elizabeth M. Shepherd married to William Denning, is the
fifth daughter and seventh child of John and Margaret Shep-
herd. She with her husband early settled in Iowa.

Elenor Shepherd sixth daughter and eighth child of John
and Margaret Shepherd, born 1832, was married to John Jack-
man, in 184 9 and moved to Hamden, Vinton County, Ohio,
where she died in 186 9, aged 37 years. To this union were
born six children: Henry Jackman, oldest son, born 1852,
married and died 18 9 2 leaving no children; William Jackman,
second son, born 18 5 4 married to Rose Fowler 1882, of which
union two children are living, Ethel Jackman, married to
Logan Tolin, residing at Soldier City, Kansas and John Jack-
man at home with his father at Circleville, Kansas. Jane Jack-
man, oldest daughter, born 1858, married Hyram Mills, of
Hamden, Ohio and moved to Rush County, Kas., then to Ne-
meha County where Mr. Mills died in 1886. In 1896 Mrs. Mills
married Benj. Turley, with whom she lives near Circleville,
Kas. The children of Hyram and Jane Jackman Mills were:
Clara, deceased at 17; Alfred, deceased at 3; Nora Mills-Hill,
of Bancroft, Kas., and Norman Mills at home.

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Elvina Jackman, second daughter, born 18 6 0, married
Thomas McClain of Wilksville, Ohio. Tlieir children were:
Herman, Howard Preston, Edna May, William Clyde, Earnest
Ray and Lloyd, The parents and children are politically Re-
publicans and religiously Presbyterians. Herman McClain died
in infancy.

Howard McClain married Joanna Sheline, November 1910.
They live at Wilkesville, Ohio, where he is an electric engineer.

Edna Mae McClain married Charles Chapman, teacher of
schools July 1905. They live at McArthur, Ohio, and have one
little son, Orton Thomas Chapman.

William Clyde McClain is a telegraph operator, married
to Ethel Kinkead September 1911 and living at 64 South

Lloyd McClain died in infancy.
Davis Ave., Columbus, Ohio.

Hester Jackman, third daughter of John and Eleanor
Jackman, was born 18 62; married William Searles, of Ham-
den, Ohio, in 18 8 3. He died in 18 90 and she married William
Bunch, with whom she lives an Vinton, Ohio. By her first
marriage, three children were born; a little girl in 18 84, died
in infancy; Clara, born October, 1886, died November, 1886,
and EfRe Searles, born November 21, 1887, living at home
and engaged as a printer. Mrs. Bunch has been an invalid for
years. They are members of the Free Baptist church and Miss
Effie is an active Christian worker.

Granville Jackman, youngest son of John and Eleanor
Jackman, born 1866, was married to Maggie Hartman, of
Byer, Ohio, where they reside.

Andrew Shepherd, third son and ninth child of John and
Margaret Shepherd, was born 1831 and died near America City,
Kas., 1910, aged 78 years. He was married to Rosanna Telfer,
of Amsterdam, O., in 1857. Of this union were born four
sons and four daughters. In 18 60 he removed to Kansas,
where in this new country he endured all the hardships of
pioneer life. Here, with his faithful wife, adhering to prin-
ciple, faithful to his Lord and the Church of Christ (he was a
Methodist), he helped to make Kansas the great and good
state it is. Scourged by drouth and grasshoppers, borrowing
fire from neighbors a mile distant, farming with ox teams,
living in loff- cabins or sod houses, holding meetings in neigh-

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bors' homes, taking eggs to Atkinson, 50 miles distant, and
selling them for 5 cents per dozen and buying calico for 2 5
cents, grating corn for meal, for the mill was two days distant,
Andrew Shepherd repeated the pioneer struggles of his parents,
only in another form, but triumphed over all.

Samuel Shepherd, son of Andrew and Rosanna Shepherd,
was born in 1858 and died in 1910 after a life of suffering.

Rose Shepherd, daughter of Andrew and Rosanna Shep-
herd, was born in 185 9 near Amsterdam, Ohio. She taught
school for five years, then married James W. White, a farmer,
in 1886, of which marriage were born four children: Mabel
White, born 188 7, educated at Campbell College, Holton, Kas.
She married Frank Epling, after teaching school a while, and
is the mother of two little girls. Rose and Mary Epling. They
live at Manhattan, Kas. Edith Maria White, second daughter
born 1888, is a junior in Campbell College. Margaret Rose
White, born 18 9 0, will enter Campbell College next fall. John
Miller White, born 1894, died 1895. The entire family are
members of the United Brethren church.

John James Shepherd, third child of Andrew and Rosanna
Shepherd, was born near American City, Kas., 1862. He is a
successful farmer, living with his sisters near Havensville, Kas.

Margaret Shepherd, born 1863, married H. G. Booth.
They live on a farm near Soldier, Kas. They have no children;
are members of the United Brethren church and farmers.

Mary Shepherd, fifth of Andrew and Rosanna Shepherd's
family, born 186 5, received her education in Campbell College,
taught school; lives with her brother John near Havens-
ville, Kas,

Jennie E. Shepherd, born 1868, a graduate of Campbell
College and of Salina Business College, taught school in Kan-
sas and Colorado; lives with her brother John, Havens-
ville, Kas.

John, Mary and Jennie are active members of the Metho-
dist church,

Andrew Shepherd, Jr., was born 18 70; married Hattie
Oliver 18 91, and lives on the old homestead. They have five
sons and two daughters: Wesley, a High School student in
Havensville; Lulu, Albert, Zona, Lester, Russell and Ernest.
Their home is near American City. Lulu and her mother are
United Brethren.

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One son of Andrew and Rosanna Shepherd, born in 18 67,
died in infancy.

Johnson Shepherd, fourth son and tenth child of John and
Margaret Shepherd, was born near Amsterdam, Ohio, 1833,
and died in young manhood.

Margaret Sliepherd seventh daughter and eleventh of the
family of John and Margaret Shepherd, and the only member
of the family living, was born near Amsterdam, Ohio, and lives
with her son and daughter in East Springfield, Ohio. She was
married to Elias Wilson, of Monroe County, Ohio, and to them
were born nine children.

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Mrs. Margaret Shepherd Wilson. Elias Wilson.

(Only living child of John Shepherd.)

George W. Wilson, oldest son of Elias and Margaret Wil-
son, unmarried, lives with his mother in East Springfield, Ohio.

Mattie A. Wilson, married to G. F. Lentz, farmer of New
Martinsville, W. Va. They have three sons: Charles Lentz,
a dentist of New Martinsville; Harry G. Lentz, an attorney,
and Ralph Lentz, a High School student.

Nannie L. Wilson, married to Samuel Henderson, Esk-
ridge, Kas., a prosperous farmer. Their children are Carl
Cleveland, deceased; Myrtle Rose Henderson, a music teacher;

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Imogene Henderson, a school teacher, and Marshall Taylor
Henderson, student in High School.

Mira L. Wilson, Married to J. T. Shepherd, which see.

Edward S. Wilson, single, worker in Oklahoma oil fields.

Lewis A. Wilson, single, worker in Oklahoma oil fields.

Jessie M. Wilson, lives with her mother in East Spring-
field, Ohio.

Clement D. Wilson, married Ethel Wilbur, farmer, living
near New Mattamoras, Ohio. They have on son, Herbert
Wilson.

Elmo G., youngest son of Elias and Margaret Wilson,
single, oil worker in Oklahoma.

Thomas Shepherd, youngest son of James and Sarah
Shepherd, was born in Parish of Drumlane, County Cavan, Ire-
land, in 1793. He came to America with his aged parents in
October, 1812, and settled on a farm in Ross Township, near
to Mt. Zion church. While on the ocean a storm arose, and in
order to lighten the ship there had to be much of the cargo
thrown overboard, among which was a part of their household
goods, including their family Bible with family records. Early
pioneer life was very trying. The first house was built of
green logs, laid on a stump foundation; their first furniture
very rude. Their bedsteads were poles stuck in the wall, with
tree boughs across for mattresses, over which was placed one
of the two feather beds brought from Ireland. Chairs and
tables were made of puncheons.

August 30th, 1816, the deed for the farm on which he
lived was made out to Thomas, two years after his father's
death, when James Madison was President of the United
States, and was signed by the President. Later he built a
hewed log house, and in 1831 built the brick house, of brick
made in the yard. This house, repaired in 1892, is now, after
80 years, a splendid home, and is still occupied and owned by
his children.

Thomas Shepherd had reason to be proud of his large
family, giving evidence of a vigorous stock, and displaying in
intellectual and business life, down to the youngest descend-
ant, the qualities which bless humanity.

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He was married to Lucinda Arbuckle March 25, 1823,
who, like her husband, was of Irish parentage, and whose
father was killed in the War of 1812. To them were born
twelve children, all living until the youngest was over 4 0
years old. The eldest and the youngest were born November
12, just 2 6 years apart. The family were Presbyterians, mem-
bers of the Bacon Ridge church. He and all but one son were
Republicans. He died December 8, 1881, aged 89 years, his
widow surviving him till April 1887. Husband and wife sleep
in the beautiful Montgomery cemetery, near where their
parents are buried. They had 12 children, 4 0 grandchildren,
6 3 great grandchildren and 15 great great grandchildren.

Thomas Shepherd.

Lucinda Arbuckle Shepherd.

Thomas Shepherd took the oath of citizenship in open
court and was naturalized October 2 6th, 184 0, Judge H. Wood-
cook presiding. But he was and is a citizen of a better country.

Sarah Shepherd, oldest child of Thomas and Lucinda
Shepherd, born November 12, 1824, was educated in the old
fashioned log school house near her father's farm. In this
school house, long ago displaced by the spirit of progress, the
pupils sat on slab benches facing primitive desks arranged
along the wall. She was married September 4, 1845, to George
Crabb, and died March 19, 1901. To them w^ere born five
children as follows:

Henry A. Crabb, born February 2 0, 1847, married to
Samantha A. Camper, September 2 5, 1873; to whom were

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born Roy Crabb, July 6, 18 74; George A. Crabb, April 17,
1877; Minnie A. Crabb, April 22, 1885, and Kenneth C. Crabb,
July 17, 19 01. Roy was married to Nellie B. Hays, December
25, 1895. Their children are Arthur E. Crabb, born June 13,
1897; Olive M. Crabb, born August 30, 1900, and Florence,
born May 4, 1902, George A. Crabb, second son, married
Elsie Raw, June 5, 1907. He is a telegraph operator in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. Minnie A. Crabb, oldest daughter of Henry A.
Crabb, married A. J. Bryant August 4, 1910.

Thomas Crabb, second son of George and Sarah Shepherd
Crabb, was born February 4, 1850, and died December 4, 1850.

Lucinda Shepherd Crabb, only daughter of George and
Sarah Crabb, was born November 17, 1852; married Anderson
Beebout May 1, 18 73. He was a business man in Richmond,
O., and an elder in the Presbyterian church, but God took him
in 1878, leaving a little daughter. Mrs. Beebout, having at-
tended Richmond College, and having taught before marriage,
now assumed the double responsibility of providing for her
little daughter, till God called the mother in 1895. Mary
Beebout, after work in Wooster University, taught music in
Steubenville schools, where she is now employed. She is a
faithful Christian and church worker.

James George Crabb, third son of George and Sarah Shep-
herd Crabb, was born April 1, 1858, and married Ella Frances
Amspoker February 24, 1898. He is an enthusiastic Granger
since 1905, having served for two years as Master at Winters-
ville, Ohio. He was County delegate to the State Grange at
Columbus in 19 08. In 1910 he purchased a farm near East
Palestine, Ohio, and finding no Grange there, and appreciating
the great value of the order, with the assistance of Deputy
State Master, succeeded in organizing Grange No. 1764 with
4 7 charter members.

Thomas Simpson Crabb, fourth son of George and Sarah
Shepherd Crabb, was born October 25, 18 65, and married
Lida Ralston July 27, 1887. Their children are Kaweena
Crabb, born November 30, 1889, died October 7, 1890; Harry
Ralston Crabb, born June 22, 1891, Patterson graduate, com-
pleted High School course in 1907; Ouanita Dixie Crabb, born
May 23, 1895, and Myrtle Valentine Crabb, born February 14,
18 97. Ouanita and Myrtle are sophomores in High School.

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William Shepherd, oldest son of Thomas and Lucinda
Shepherd, was born May 14, 182 6. He labored upon the home
farm in summer and threshed in winter with an "Old Bunty
Thresher," run with four horses. On June 11, 1850, he mar-
ried Elizabeth Watt. They were the parents of ten children.
After marriage he and his brother James settled upon a farm
on "Timothy Ridge," but in 1854 they dissolved partnership,
James going west and William remaining on the farm. On
Saturday, July 25, 1863, John Morgan, with his 600 Kentucky
rebel raiders, passed through this part of Jefferson County.
William Shepherd, as Captain of the "Home Guards," went
in hot pursuit. They camped on the east side of Big Yellow
Creek, near Dr. Simpson's and Herdman Taylor's. Next morn-
ing, Sabbath, July 26, before daylight, they crossed the bridge
and set fire to it. But they were captured by Shackleford at
Salineville, William Shepherd assisting in removing the spurs
and equipment from Morgan. In April, 18 6 5, William sold
his farm and went west with his family and goods via the
Ohio River to Cairo, then up the Mississippi to Burlington,
la., and from there to Ottumwa, where his brothers John and
Thomas already resided. He bought a farm four miles north
of Ottumwa, which is still in possession of the family. He
was a prosperous farmer and stock raiser; a citizen of ex-
tensive influence frequently called upon for jury duty and loyal
to right as he saw it. He died, after an operation, in Chicago,
October 14, 1890.

Jane Shepherd, oldest daughter of William and Elizabeth
Shepherd, was born August 12, 1851; married William J.
Baker November 1, 1871. They had but one child, Elizabeth
Florence, born August 10, 1873, and died August 12, 1874, the
mother dying June 17, 1876.

Lucinda Shepherd, second daughter of William and wife,
was born September 7, 1853; married Hamilton Wilson No-
vember 8, 1877, and died November 20, 1906.

Mary Emma Shepherd, third daughter, was born January
29, 1855; married Thomas Cody March 14, 1877. They home-
steaded in Nebraska in 1883, and built a log house, where by
economy and industry they have accumulated valuable prop-
erty. Their children, seven in number, are: Nellie Ann Cody,
born March 1, 1878, successful school teacher for eight years;
married Harl E. Van Cleve December 20, 1905. They are

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blessed witTi two little sons, Max Lee Van Cleve, born May 25,
1909, and Earl Jerome Van Cleve, born July 1, 1911.

Mary Ann Cody, second daughter, was born March 1,
1878; married George A Troxel July 7, 1901. He owned a
farm of 54 0 acres near West Union, Neb., but is now partner
with the Rankin Bros., and foreman of their great ranch of
8,0 00 acres in Blaine County. Their children are: Raymond
Oscar Troxel, born March 1, 1903; Mary Elizabeth Troxel,
born March 4, 1904; Olin Samuel Troxel, born May 6, 1906;
Nellie Opal Troxel, Born May 24, 1908, and George William
Troxel, born January 17, 1910. The ranch supports 1,500
cattle, 200 horses and 250 hogs.

Frank Edward Cody, oldest son, was born April 2 6,
1882; married Eva Veeder February 27, 1906. Their childrer
are: Max William Cody, born December 19, 19 07, and Pearl
Leonard, born March 6, 1909. Charles Raymond Cody, sec-
ond son, born December 8, 1884, is a farmer at home. William
Shepherd Cody, third son, born April 29, 1888, died March
21, 1903. Earl George Cody, born January 26, 1892, is a
graduate chauffeur of Lincoln, Neb., Auto School. Thomas
Gerard Cody, youngest son, was born August 16, 18 9 5, and
died July 31, 1911.

Ann Eliza Shepherd, fourth daughter of William and wife,
born August 16, 1857, married James E. Law February 19,
1878. They moved to California and settled among the orange
groves. Their children are: Bertha Law, born April 8, 1880;
William Arthur Law, born March 14, 1883; Earnest J. Law,
born February, 1886.

Martha Elizabeth Shepherd, fifth daughter of William and
wife, born August 4, 1859, married William H. Bennett March,
1883. A little son, born in 1885, died in infancy. They live
in a beautiful country home near Ottumwa, la.

John Arbuckle Shepherd, oldest son of William and wife,
born October 3, 1862, married Ida J. Wilson January 12, 1887.
Their children are: Ethel Shepherd, born December 31, 1888;
died March 25, 1889; Mabel E. Shepherd, born July 9, 1890;
Lena O. Shepherd, born November 25, 1891, stenographer for
Gilmore and Moon attorneys, and for the Ottumwa National
Bank; Beulah B. Shepherd, born June 15, 1894; infant daugh-
ter, born August 1, 1896, deceased; Edith M. Shepherd, born
August 7, 1898, High School student, and Laura Shepherd,
born February 8, 1900, died 1902.

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Charles Watt Shepherd, second son of William and wife.„

born September 1, 1864, married Ollie Kelsey February 22,.
1894. They have one child, Raymond, born January 10, 1896.

Margaret Bell Shepherd, sixth daughter, born December

18, 1867; married Prank Mast September 20, 1894. One son,
George Mast, was born December 4, 1897, and died December
16, the mother dying two days before her child.

Nettie Angle Shepherd, seventh daughter, born December

19, 1869; married Leroy Smith April 18, 1900. Their chil-
dren are: Ina May Smith, born February 3, 19 02; Ruth
Elizabeth Smith, born January 7, 19 04; Hazel Smith, born
August 9, 1906, died April 12, 1910; infant, born September,
1908, deceased.

William Harold Shepherd, Herbert I.saac Sliepherd, George

Washington Shepherd, Mr.s. ii. W. Shepherd, Alice Elizabeth

Shepherd, f harles Edward Shepherd.

George Washington Shepherd, third and youngest son of
William and wife, born October 28, 1871; married Emma Jane
Drake February 21, 19 01. Their children are: William
Harold, born February 10, 1902; Herbert Isaac, born July 14,
1903; Charles Edward, born March 2 0, 19 05, and Alice Eliza-

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beth, born April 2 9, 19 08. He is a prosperous farmer and an
elder in the Wilson Chapel, Presbyterian church, near Ot-
tumwa, Iowa.

James E. Shepherd, second son of Thomas and Lu-
cinda Shepherd, was born January 16, 1828, and received his
education in the old log school house near his father's home.
In 1854 he crossed the plains to California, enduring all the
hardships of an emigrant train. He remained twelve years,
returning to Wapello County, Iowa, in 1866. He was married
October 31, 1867, to Annie Griggs. A daughter, Mattie May
Shepherd, was born November 9, 1868, and was left to
brighten the home until November 21, 18 7 8, when she was
taken to the Father's House above. They lived upon his beau-
tiful farm in Clark County, Iowa, until 18 94, when he moved
to Osceola, la., where he built a fine home, modern in all its
appointments, and where he is active in business, being a di-
rector of a bank in Murray, la., and President of the Iowa State
Bank of Osceola. His wife died October 23, 1905.

George Arbuckle Shepherd, third son of Thomas and
Lucinda Shepherd, was born July 6, 1830. He went to
California in 1852, two years before his brother James, en-
during, as he did, all the hardness of the way. After thirty
years spent in gold digging and other pursuits, he returned
to Ohio in 1882. Before leaving home he had put a lock of
his hair in an auger hole in the log grain house, which on re-
turning he found nicely preserved. He was very fond of young
people and children, and would rather give a child a doll to en-
joy its pleasure than to eat his own dinner. He died January 11,
1890, in Austin, Nevada. In politics he was a Democrat, the
only one of Thomas Shepherd's family.

John R. Shepherd, fourth son of Thomas and Lucinda
Shepherd, was born May 13, 183 2. After his majority
had been reached in work upon the farm and in the log school
house, he attended Richmond College, and in 1855 went west
settling in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. He taught school for several
years in Lee and Henry Counties, and in 18 60 went to O't-
tumwa, but in 1862 returned to his old home. He married
Mary Jane Swickard October 16, 1862, at the home of her
parents near Richmond, Ohio. He returned to Ottumwa,
la., and engaged in the implement business, in which business
he continued till his death May 7, 1900. He was the father

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of four children: Minnie Deborah Shepherd, born July 1,
1863, died September 17, 1863; Wilbur P. Shepherd, born
September 2 0, 18 65; has been located in Northwestern Ne-
braska, near Harrison, since 1888, and is engaged in cattle
ranching. He married Anna Zerbst June 25, 1895. They have
three children: George H. Shepherd, born February 1, 1896;
Leroy R. Shepherd, born December 11, 1898, and Minnie Mae
Shepherd, born June 1, 1900. James Hinsey Shepherd, third
child of John R. Shepherd, born January 3 0, 18 6 7, managed
his father's business for some time previous to his death,
and continues the business now under his own name, having
built a very large implement house in 19 04. He married
Minnie May Swickard November 17, 18 91. They have six
children: Earl R. Shepherd, born August 3 0, 1892; James
H. Shepherd, Jr., born July 20, 1899, died March 7, 1900;
Arthur W. Shepherd, born May 7, 1901; Edwin Clair Shep-
herd, born June 30, 1906, died February 15, 1909; twin boys
born March 9, 1911, deceased.

Infant, fourth and youngest son of John R. Shepherd and
wife, born June 17, 1868, deceased.

Thomas Kirkpatrick Shepherd, fifth son of Thomas
and Lucinda Shepherd, was born July 31, 1834, At 21
he attended Richmond College and a year later went to Iowa.
The rest of his life was spent in Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas.
He married Melissa Whitcomb January 7, 1864, and died in
Kansas December 2 6, 1911. He sleeps in the beautiful ceme-
tery at Ottumwa, la. To Thomas K. Shepherd and wife were
born five children: Jessie May Shepherd, born May 21, 1865,
died October 13, 1865; Grace Maria Shepherd, born October
4, 1868, graduated from Kansas State Normal School, degree
A. B.; post graduate work Hastings College, Hastings, Neb.,
and Chicago University. When but a girl weighing but little
over one hundred pounds she taught school on the plains of
Western Kansas, driving thirteen miles from home in an over-
land stage. She met a few children in a tiny school house,
half "Dug out," half sod, with dirt floor and home-made
benches and desks. Next she opened a new frame school
house, the pride of the neighborhood, where she soon showed
herself mistress of a gang of unruly, burly big boys. After
graduation from college she taught English four years in
the High Schools of Hiawatha, Kan., going from there to
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seven years in the High School at Boise, the State Capital.
In 1910 she was elected on the Republican ticket, State Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction of Idaho, entering upon
her duties January 1, 1911. She is one of but three women
in the United States serving in this position. Marked progress
has attended her work, especially along the lines of manual
training, domestic science and teaching of scientific agricul-
ture in the rural schools.

Miss Grace Maria Shepherd.

Frank Thomas, oldest son of Thomas K. Shepherd and
wife, born July 13, 1871, died August 31, 1872; Lettie Edna
Shepherd, born October 30, 1873, received the degree of A. B.
from Hastings, Neb., College and taught in the graded schools
of Ottumwa, Iowa, and in the High School of Albia, la. She
married John Baldwin Mudge August 29, 1906, and is the
mother of two children, Frederick Swigert Mudge, born Au-
gust 30, 1907, and Elizabeth Mudge, born March 20, 1911.

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They live with lier motlier, Mrs. Melissa Whitcomb Shepherd,
at 5215 Madison Ave., Chicago, 111.

Frederick Norman, fifth child of Thomas K. and Melissa
Shepherd, born September 4, 18 78, graduate of Park College,
Parkville, Mo., married Dora Marie Hard, of Tacoma, Wash.,
February 8, 1910, and is now living in Spokane, Wash., where
he is business manager of the Western Farmer and sales
manager of the Grandview Irrigation Development Company.

Elezan Shepherd, second daughter and seventh child
of Thomas and Lucinda Shepherd, born May 30, 1836, mar-
ried James Wycou November 23, 18 62, and settled on a farm
near home. Since the death of her husband in 1910 she has
lived at MeKees Rocks, Pa. She has been from girlhood a
consistent member of the Presbyterian church. They had one
son, George Rolston Wycoff, born June 2 8, 18 6 6. He received
his academic education at the Ohio Normal University of Ada,
O., and Richmond College, after which he spent several years
in teaching in his native county of Jefferson improving his
spare time in the study of medicine. He graduated from the
Medical Department of the University of Kentucky, Louisville,
June 21, 1892. He began the practice of medicine at East
Springfield, Ohio, but in 1896 removed to Duquesne, Pa.,
where he built up a lucrative practice. In 19 05 he sold out
here and removed to McKees Rocks, a suburb of Pittsburg,
where he is now, connected with Ohio Valley Hospital, having
served on the staff in Pathology, Medicine, Orthopedic Sur-
gery and Surgery. He also holds a position as surgeon on the
staff of the Pittsburg Free Dispensary, During 1911 he served
as President of the Charities Valley Branch of the Allegheny
County Medical Society. He is a member of the State Medical
Association, and is now devoting much time to the specialty
of surgery and diseases of women. He, with his family, are
ardent Presbyterians. He was married to Anna L. McFadden,
of Mechanicstown, Carroll County, Ohio, February 18, 1884.
To this union four children have been born: Maud Edna
Wycoff, born June 17, 1885, at East Springfield ,0. She
graduated from the High Schools of Duquesne in 19 05 and
taught in the schools of that city for two years. She married
F. Norman Black June 26, 1907. They had one child, Anna
Louisa Black, born July 2, 1909, died September 14, 1910.
She and her husband reside at 110 Grant Ave., Duquesne, Pa.

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George R. Wycoff, M. D.

Lota B. Wycoff, second daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Wycoff,
was born July 2 7, 189 0. She graduated from the public
schools of Duquesne, and, with the highest honors, from the
South Western State Normal School, California, Pa., June 2 5,
19 09. She is now teacher in the public schools of McKees
Rocks, Pa. Married Frank E. Cooper, of Pittsburg, June 28, 1912.

Hazel B. Wycoff, third daughter, born July 19,
pupil in High School.

Roy Wycoff, only son and youngest child, born September
14, 1903.

Andrew Johnson Shepherd, sixth son of Thomas and
Lucinda Shepherd, was born June 21, 1838, and
died January 18, 1912. He attended school near home
and worked on the home farm until August 2 0,
1862, when he enlisted in Co. I, 40th Regt., Ohio Vol. In
December, 1864, he was transferred to Co. E, and was mus-
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September 2 0, 18 63, he was wounded in the right arm and
was confined to the hospital for six months. He served as an
officer of the Harry Hale Post, No. 4 2 7, G. A. R., of Richmond,
O. In 1866 he united with the Bacon Ridge Presbyterian
church, but afterward transferred to the Mt. Zion M. E. church.
He was married May 15, 18 67, to Anzonetta L. McCullough.
Their children are: Anna Alvernia Shepherd, born September
9, 1869, married to John A. Waggoner, of Richmond, O.,
September 29, 1887. Mr. Waggoner is an elder in the Rich-
mond Presbyterian church, and she is an active church worker
and S. S. teacher. Their children are: Laura B. Waggoner,
born December 31, 18 9 5, and Mary L. Waggoner, born Decem-
ber 24, 1905.

John Richard Shepherd, oldest son of Andrew J. and An-
zonetta Shepherd, was born October 28, 1871, and lives with
his mother on the farm, where he specializes in fine stock
and poultry, and cares for his sister's little boys. He is a mem-
ber of the M. E. church.

Robert Monroe Shepherd, second son, was born September
4, 18 74. When 18 years old he entered the Ohio Northern Uni-
versity at Ada, O., and after one year here, began teaching.
August 24, 1898, he married Bertha Luella Wiles, and in 1901
graduated from the Normal Department of Mount Union Col-
lege, Alliance, O. He taught school in that city for two years,
then entered the U. S. R. R. mail service. He runs from Pitts-
burg to Chicago over the Pennsylvania R. R, They live in
Alliance, 121 Rice St., and have three children: Merle Wiles
Shepherd, born June 13, 1899; Mabel Marie Shepherd, born
February 1, 1901, and Grace Elizabeth Shepherd, born Au-
gust 15, 1907.

Nancy Jane Shepherd, second daughter of Andrew J, and
Anzonetta Shepherd, was born October 2 6, 18 77; married
Grafton H. Allensworth December 2 5, 1898, and died August
22, 1899.

W. Frank Shepherd, third son of Andrew J. and wife, was
born May 19, 1880; married to Beryl E. Arnold October 8,
1902. Their children are: Frank Arnold Shepherd, born
September 10, 1903; Loretta Margaret Shepherd, born Sep-
tember 9, 1905, and Ruth Shepherd, born January 13, 1909.

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Cora Bell Shepherd, youngest daughter of Andrew J. and
wife, was born May 19, 1885; married James Blaine Lowry
May 27, 1902, and died March 19, 1908, leaving three little
ones. Cline Lowry, born May 27, 1902, and Dean Lowry, born
August 11, 1906, live with their grandmother Shepherd and
uncle John. Donna Lowry, born January 21, 1908, three months
before her mother's death, was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Ed-
ward Baxter.

Hezekiah Shepherd, seventh son of Thomas and Lu-
cinda Shepherd, born January 19, 1841, married Ann
Elizabeth Adams of Tuscarawas County, O., October 21, 1869.
In 1870 they removed to Osceola, la., and in 1879 to Cawker
City, Kas., where they lived until 1898, when they moved to
Beloit, and two years later to Hiawatha, Kas., where they now
reside. They have eight children: Lulu Jane Shepherd, born
December 81, 1870, taught school from 1887 till 1901, when
she went to Thermopolis, Wyoming, and filed on a homestead
in Big Horn County. She taught school here for seven years
and proved up her claim.

Ross Campbell Shepherd, oldest son of Hezekiah and wife,
born August 14, 1872, lives on a homestead at Embar, Big
Horn County, Wyoming.

James Harrison Shepherd, second son, born February 10,
1875, is a carpenter at Independence, Kas,

Charles Irwin Shepherd, third son, born March 24, 1877,
is employed by the Grand Island R. R. and resides at Hia-
watha, Kas.

Jessie May, oldest daughter, was born January 31, 1880,
at Cawker City Kas. She graduated from the Hiawatha High
School and is now business manager of the Brown County
World, a weekly newspaper. Frederick William Shepherd,
fourth son, born January 28, 1888, is a carpenter in Great
Falls, Mont. Anna Mabel, second daughter, born May 5, 1885,
graduated from Hiawatha High Schools in 1904, and is now
Principal of Willis, Kansas, schools. Ralph Robert Shepherd,
youngest son of Hezekiah Shepherd and wife, was born Jan-
uary 28, 1888. He is an electrician, employed by the Electric
Light Company of Seneca, Kas. He was married November 8,
1911, to Mae Bell Peret.

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Martha A. Shepherd, third daughter of Thomas and
Lucinda Shepherd, born October 6, 1844, was educated in
the little frame school house on the edge of her father's farm.
She became the stay and pride of her parents while the others
were teaching and attending school. In 188 0 she went west,
hoping that a rest and visit would prove beneficial. She re-
turned after a year and a half and again took up the task of
caring for her parents. In 1883 she, with her sisters, Lucy
and Mary, agreed to keep the old home, on which they still re-
side. She is a valuable member of the Bacon Ridge Pres-
byterian church.

Lucinda or Lucy E. Shepherd, fourth daughter of
Thomas and wife, was born April 16, 1847. In 1867 she
attended Hopedale College, then taught for four years in
country schools, after which she attendad Richmond College
one year and Hopedale three, graduating in 18 75 with the
degree of A. B. She continued teaching until 1882, and her
interest in educational matters continues unabated. She has
served three years as a member of the School Board of Ross
Township. Her agreement with her sisters to keep the old
home has already been referred to. In 18 81 she married John
Delmar Wilson (see elsewhere). She is an active member of
the Bacon Ridge Presbyterian church.

Mary H. Shepherd, fifth daughter and twelfth child,
was born November 12, 185 0. After a country school training,
she attended Richmond College for one year, then Scio Col-
lege. She taught almost 3 0 years in Jefferson County, O. She
went west for a year in 1906. She led the county in the O. T.
R. C. at that time, having been a reader of the Circle for years.
She was a faithful member of the Bacon Ridge Presbyterian
church. She triumphed in death July 6, 1907. She sleeps in
the Montgomery cemetery near her parents.

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Thomas Shepherd Home, built 1831, remodeled 1892.

Near here, Reunion of August 15th, 1912, will be held.

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