BIO:  SHEPHERD, Green, s/o Stephen & Sallie (Porter) Shepherd

Submitted by:  ivie@tima.com   (Diana Flynn)

SHEPHERD,   PORTER,   SNOWDEN,   MARTIN

"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.

SULLIVAN CO., INDIANA
JACKSON TWP.
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GREEN SHEPHERD, farmer, was born in 1834, in Sullivan County,
Ind., son of Stephen Shepherd, a native of Kentucky, who came to
Shelby County, Ind., when a young man, settling near Shelbyville.
He married Sallie Porter, born May 25, 1798, and died in 1878,
by whom he had the following children:  Thomas, Ezekiel, Josiah,
John, George, David, William, Greenbury and James.  They all
lived to maturity but John, and they are all dead now but George,
David and our subject.  James was a member of the Eighty-fifth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was killed in a skirmish in which
the regiment were all taken prisoners.  Mr. Shepherd came to
Sullivan in an early day.  Our subject, Green Shepherd, married
in 1861, Elizabeth J. Snowden, born in 1838, in Ireland, daughter
of Orr and Nancy (Martin ) Snowden of County Down, Ireland,
who settled in Pittsburg in 1842, and the following are his child-
ren:  Josephine, Porter, Monford, Melwore, Mamie, Nellie and
George.  He owns 265 acres of good land, and is a Democrat.
He was elected a Justice of the Peace in 1868, which office he
filled eight years with satisfaction to all.  He is not a member of
any religious society, but gives his influence to all Christian work
and the development of society.
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