History and genealogy of James and Sara Shepherd and their American decendants . 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 MaryShepherd, daughter of John and Margaret Shepherd 184 6, and 33 settled in Monroe County, Ohio. Four children were born ofthis union. His wife died January 1858. He married Mar-garet Taylor March 1859, to which union were born sevenchildren. His life from childhod was one of hard toil, but heaccumulated a competence,
History and genealogy of James and Sara Shepherd and their American decendants . 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 MaryShepherd, daughter of John and Margaret Shepherd 184 6, and 33 settled in Monroe County, Ohio. Four children were born ofthis union. His wife died January 1858. He married Mar-garet Taylor March 1859, to which union were born sevenchildren. His life from childhod was one of hard toil, but heaccumulated a competence, which by the panic of 18 73 sufferedgreat diminution. He was ruggedly honest, a devout Christ-ian, an original thinker and a man whose memory is sought, in spite of disadvantages incident to pioneer life,in his young manhood, an education, and was able to teachschool for some time. The writer is the possessor of an oldcopy of Josephus, for which Milton Shepherd dug ditches 16days at 5 0 cents per day. His widow, Margaret Shepherd stillsurvives at Preeport, 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 oneyear, he married Margaret Barnes and settled on a farm nearAthens, Ohio. Of this union were born two daughters, thefirst born dying in infancy, the second, Blanche Shepherd, born1871 married J. C. Pritchard in 1894 and died in New Phila-delphia, Ohio in 1905 leaving two children, Paul and MadalinePritchard. Margaret Barnes Shepherd died in 1874 and in 1875Peter C. Shepherd married Anna Hance, who survives children were Willis Shepherd, born 1876 and MamieShepherd born 18 79. Peter Shepherd graduated from Chicago 34 1470897 Medical College and was a practicing physician in Iowa, whenhe 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 Sheph
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