Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Sheppard, James 
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Author: The History of Sonoma County

JAMES BUCHANAN SHEPPARD (pp. 431-2)
In the death of James Buchanan Sheppard, which occurred September 20, 1924, 
Sonoma county lost one of its valued citizens.  The latter part of his life, 
covering about thirty years, was spent here, during which time he took an 
active part in the general progress of the county, and he is entitled to 
representation in a history of this locality among the other progressive 
citizens of the community.  Mr. Sheppard was a native of West Virginia, where 
he was born on the 29th of April, 1857, a son of Samuel H. and Mary Jane 
(Ingraham) Sheppard, both of whom also were born and reared in that state.  
They are both now deceased, the father having died in Idaho about 1886, while 
his widow, who survived him many years, passed away in Fort Scott, Kansas, 
December 18, 1917.
In his early boyhood James C. Sheppard accompanied his parents on their removal 
to Kansas, in the public schools of which state he secured his education.  He 
thereafter remained with his parents until his father sold the Kansas home, in 
1886, and moved to Idaho, where his death occurred very soon afterwards.  The 
son carried on the work of the Idaho farm for his mother until 1895, when it 
was sold, and he then came to California.  Locating in Sonoma county, Mr. 
Sheppard leased the McLellan ranch, north of Santa Rosa, to the cultivation of 
which he applied himself for five years.  He then bought twenty-six acres of 
land two miles east of Windsor, which he operated for eight or nine years, at 
the end of which time he sold it and bought seventy-two acres of land just 
across the highway.   It was at that time nearly all in vineyard, but he lifted 
part of the vines and planted twenty-five acres to prunes, leaving fifteen 
acres in vineyard, while the remainder of the ranch was hay and pasture land.  
He applied himself energetically to the improvement and cultivation of this 
place, which he developed into one of the best and most valuable ranches in 
this section of the county.  Since his death his son Eugene is running the 
place and makes his home with his mother.
On August 21, 1889, occurred the mariage of Mr. Sheppard to Miss Barbara Ann 
Moyer, a daughter of Henry and Catherine (Butt) Moyer, both of whom were 
natives of Ohio.  Henry Moyer was a farmer during his entire active life and 
remained a resident of Ohio, untill 1877, when he came to Idaho, where his 
death occurred in July, 1906.  He was survived by his widow, whose death 
occurred December 14, 1909. They were the parents of six children, namely:  
Jacob, deceased; Levi, deceased; William; Barbara Ann (Mrs. Sheppard); Mrs. Ida 
Webb, who lives in Idaho; and Seth, deceased.  To Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard also 
were born six children, namely:  Mrs. Mary Weston, who lives in Healdsburg, 
Sonoma county; Mrs. Katherine Lee, who lives near Fulton and is the mother of a 
daughter, Marjorie Ellen, born September 2, 1924; Eugene, who has never married 
and remains at home; Frederick, who is superintendent of the De La Tour 
vineyard, near Rutherford, Napa county; Mrs. Anne Higgins, of Berkeley, 
California; and Ellen, who is a senior in the Santa Rosa ;high school.
Mr. Sheppard was a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, having been a member 
of the blue lodge of Windsor and the Royal Arch chapter at Healdsburg.  He was 
also a member of the Order of the Eastern Star at Windsor, of which he was a 
past worth patron, and Mrs. Sheppard is a past worth matron of the same 
chapter.  Mr. Sheppard had also been honored by serving for two years as 
worshipful master of his Masonic lodge.  He was a man who made a favorable 
impression on all whom he met.  Although his life was a busy one, his every-day 
affairs making heavy demands on his time, he never shrank from his duties ad a 
citizen and his obligations to the neighborhood in which he lived.  He was a 
man of good business judgment and sound discrimination, of industrious habits 
and persistent industry, of the community.  He commanded the respect of all 
classes by his exemplary life and his memory will long be revered by all who 
knew him.

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