Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Shepard, Sarah M. (Burns) 1927
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Belding Banner-News, 4 Aug 1927

Mrs. Sarah Shepard, of 622 Broas street, a well known and pioneer resident of
this city, passed away at her home after a brief illness.  Some time ago Mrs.
Shepard had a stroke and never fully recovered while other complications set in
which caused her death. 

Warren Shepard, her husband, was a Civil war veteran, who died about ten years
ago.  Rev. Wm. Shepard, pastor of the Congregational church at Port Huron is a
son of the deceased.

Sarah M. Burns was born in Riley Center, Clinton county, Michigan, January 30,
1844 and passed from this life July 30, 1927.  She was united in marriage to
Warren Shepard in 1870, coming to Michigan where they settled in Newaygo county,
moving to Belding in 1891.  To this union six children were born, Mrs. Blanche
Eckler, of Belding; Vita Leone, preceding her mother in death; Clarence M.
Shepard, of Ohio; Mrs. Frank Southerland, of Belding; Rev. Wm. Shepard, of Port
Huron, Michigan, and Miss Bessie Shepard, of Belding.  Warren Shepard, who was a
Civil war veteran, passed away in 1927.

Besides her five children she is survived by one brother and two sisters, Mr.
Seward Burns, of Six Lakes, Michigan; Mrs. Dephine Marshall, of Six Lakes and
Mrs. Helen Burns, of Spring Arbor, Michigan.  Six grandchildren and four
great-grandchildren and other relatives and a host of friends.

Mrs. Shepard was a kind a loving mother and will be greatly missed by her
children and many friends.  Funeral services were held at her late home Friday
at 2:30 p.m., Rev. D. Aelick officiating, burial in Belding Cemetery.


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