William H. Shepherd

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1830-05-12

Death Date

1886-05-18

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White

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"William H. Shepherd" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00007429, (accessed August 2, 2025).

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Ballard County, Kentucky, farmer. Tennessee native. Married to Margaret A. Shanklin Shepherd on May 16, 1850. Father of Margaret E. Shepherd, David R. Shepherd, Eugennia Shepherd, and Thomas Shepherd. Farmer in Robertson County, Tennessee, in 1850. Farmer in Ballard County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Robertson County, District 6, p. 43. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, Cobbs, p. 109. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, District 4, p. 6. Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, Robertson County, 1850, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN (accessed via Ancestry). Find A Grave, "William Harrison Shepherd (1830-1886)," Memorial #59601829, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=59601829 (accessed June 22, 2017).

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