SHEPPARD CEMETERY
Trace Creek, Mingo County WV

By: Ann Damron


Laura Sword Sheppard   		1890   	July 27, 1927
d/o John and Massanire Sword - married George Shepherd - she was his fourth wife

Finley (Little Finley)) Sheppard's child  (no marker)
Child of Finley Sheppard and his wife, who was Ethel Manns.

George Sheppard      	Jan 5, 1854               Jan 1, 1939
s/o Allen and Julia Ann Runyon Sheppard 

Finley (Little Finley) Sheppard         d. (ca)  1936  
Mine accident in Logan County
s/o George and  Laaura Sword Sheppard - md. Ethel Manns

Esther Sheppard Mayberry                b.  (ca)  1904          
d/o Allen Jay and Nannie Deskins Sheppard - md. Tom Mayberry 
s/o Enoch and Laura Trible 

Marie Sheppard                          b.  Aug 20, 1938        d.  Jan 15, 1939
d/o Drew and Minda Damron Sheppard - died in Holden Hospital, Logan Co. WV

Catherine Shepherd Sheppard             b.  1909 Rush, KY       d.  1960
d/o James Shepherd and Ida Leekins   - wife of Watt Sheppard

Walter Lee (Little Watt)) Sheppard      b.  Jan 11, 1923        d.  Jan 19,1974
s/o Albert and Hulda Dempsey Sheppard - md. Jean

Ella Sheppard Esposito                  b.  Oct 13, 1921        d.  Jan 26, 1974
d/o Albert and Hulda Dempsey Sheppard - md. to Phil Esposito, who died in 1980's

Anna Mae Sheppard Porter                b.  Nov 7, 1929 d.  Sept 16, 1976
d/o Watt and Catherine Shepherd Sheppard - md. Jim Porter

Minda Damron Sheppard           b.  Dec 11, 1898        d.  Sept 14, 1977
d/o Will and Susan Conn Damron - wife of Drew 

Drew Sheppard                   b.  May 8, 1901 d.  June 27, 1982
s/o George and Ann Newsome Sheppard - husband of Minda Damron Sheppard

Albert Sheppard                 b.  Sept 26, 1893       d.  Aug 17, 1982
s/o George and Ann Newsome Sheppard - husband of Hulda Dempsey

Watson L. (Watt) Sheppard       b.  4-7-1899            d.  3-21-1983
s/o George and Ann Newsome Sheppard - husband of Virgie
PVT World War I, U. S. Army

Haskell Sheppard                b.  May 30, 1933        d.  July 27, 1982
s/o Drew and Minda Damron Sheppard - md. Mary Mikailian Phillips
PFC U. S. Army, Korea

Side by side in graves marked by fieldstones are:  Little Finley Sheppard, 
Esther Mayberry,  and Little Finley's child in that order.  Chafin Funeral 
Home marks child's grave

One person removed from this cemetery:

Dolly Sheppard d/o George  &Laura Sword Sheppard - md. Howard Adkins


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