Marion-Chattahoochee County GaArchives News.....Sheppard, Oldest man 1888
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Submitted by Carla Miles

The Marion County Patriot, No. 29
July 20, 1888
Page Three

An Old Man

There was an old gentleman named Sheppard in town Saturday, who lives on the line of Chattahoochee and Marion counties, who is in his 96th year and is the oldest man in Marion or Chattahoochee or perhaps several other adjoining counties. He once lived on the Judge McCall place near Buena Vista, was one of the first settlers of the county and remembers distinctly when some of the oldest places in the county were settled. He is hale and hearty now, has not taken a drop of medicine from a doctor in seventy-five years and bids fair to be a centenarian. He is an uncle of Captain Sheppard of Buena Vista.


NOTE:
The Captain you refer to is most likely John Abner
Sheppard, Capt. CSA who lived in Buena Vista and is
buried there in the Baptist Cemetery.

He had two uncles that lived in the area. 

This article is most likely about Andrew M Sheppard
(Oct. 30, 1793-April 17, 1889) who lived in Pine
Knot, Chattahoochee County, Georgia in the 1860,
1870 and 1880 census. He was in Marion County in the
1850 census. He died at 96 years of age. I do not
think that he ever married. His widowed mother and
sister lived with him. 

They are all buried in County Line Cemetery. Andrew
was a patron of the Branley School in Marion County.

His other uncle was Abner Sheppard who lived to be
100. Abner is found in the 1880 Moore County, North
Carolina census. Abner died in Schley County,
Georgia.
Ruth Sheppard  washep@comcast.net