Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Shepherd, Charles 1842 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   CHARLES SHEPHERD was born in Greene County, Ind., in the year 1842, and is
the third child in a family of seven born to William and Martha (Bradford)
Shepherd, who were natives of Kentucky. He was reared to manhood upon his
fathers farm, educated in the common schools of the neighborhood, and was joined
in marriage in 1865 with Miss Mary Hicks, daughter of Rev. W. C. and Winnie
(Alford) Hicks, who were from Tennessee. Mr. Shepherd is a well-to do farmer, a
good citizen and neighbor, and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian
Church, and parents of six children—Ida M., Loretta, William (who was named for
his grandfather), Myrthe, Oscar and Mary. William Shepherd, father of the
subject of this sketch, was widely and favorably known in Greene County, where
he settled at a very early day. He was born in Kentucky January 7, 1814, and his
wife, who was formerly Martha Bradford, was born in the same State in 1815. They
died respectively in the years 1860 and 1881, and were the parents of Thomas H.,
Margaret, Charles, Leander, William and Andrew. Mrs. Charles Shepherd's father,
the Rev. W. C. Hicks, was among the pioneers of Greene County, Ind., and his
memory will long be cherished by the early members of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church, of which he was a member and pastor. It was through his
influence that the Hicks Church was built, and after its erection was named in
his honor. Mr. Hicks was a native of Tennessee, born in 1810, and his death
occurred in Greene County in 1878. He was twice married, his first wife, Winnie
Alford, bearing him nine children, and his last wife, Sarah J., nine more,
making him the father of eighteen children.

Additional Comments:
Fairplay Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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