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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power
These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon
County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all
necessary research to document what is contained herein.
SHEPHERD, SARAH C.
, born July 5, 1823, in Shepherdstown, was married there in the fall of 1836 to Dr. E. C. Williams. They have several children, and reside in Martinsburg, Va. Their son, LEWIS, was in Sangamon county, when the rebellion commenced, and enlisted on the first call for 75,000 men in the 7th Ill. Inf. for three months. He enlisted for three years in the 20th Ill. Inf., re-enlisted as a veteran in 1864, and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. He is now married, and lives in Texas.
Mrs. Mary Shepherd, whose maiden name was Byers, came to Sangamon county with her son, Thomas C., in 1836, and died in the house of her son-in-law, Philip W. Weber, Nov. 25, 1870, aged ninety-one years. John Miller, of Shepherdstown, father of Mrs. Thomas C. Shepherd, visited them, and died at their house Sept. 29, 1860, in his 77th year.
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