Thomas Shepherd Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Platteville, Biographical Sketches, Page 921-922

THOMAS SHEPHERD, deceased; was born in Yorkshire, England, 1806; married Agnes 
Hoe, a native of Westmoreland, England; they came in 1850, to America, with ten 
children, and located on a farm owned by Maj. Rountree. The Shepherd homestead 
originally of 160 acres was then purchased; Mr. Shepherd did good work here 
clearing and improving; in 1857, he built the substantial stone house, now 
making a good home for his family; he subsequently sold all except 84 acres; at 
his death, June 31, 1862, he left his widow and the ten children namely: Allen, 
Mary, Anthony, Agnes, Thomas, Betsy, Isabella, Hannah, William and Joseph; Mary 
is in Otisville, Iowa, and William in Oakdale, Neb. ; all the others are now in 
the city and town of Platteville; the family are members of the P. M. Church.