BIO:  SHEPHERD, Charles, s/o William & Martha (Bradford) Shepherd

Submitted by: "Diana Flynn" <ivie@tima.com>

SHEPHERD,  BRADFORD,  HICKS,  ALFORD

"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF
INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT;  TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC."  CHICAGO:  GOODSPEED
BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.  1884.

GREENE CO., IN.
FAIRPLAY TWP.

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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
father's 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 chidren--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.
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