Joanna Elizabeth (Mead) Shepard (1842 - 1914)

Born 30 Mar 1842 in Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont

Ancestors

Wife of Augustus Dennis Shepard — married 25 Sep 1862 in Warren, Warren, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 3 Feb 1914 at age 71 in Gibsonville, Guilford, North Carolina

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Biography

"Joanna is very pretty, sweet-tempered; can romp like a Kentucky damsel and has a rich full voice and a contagious happy laugh" RBH to Laura Platt, Sept. 20, 1858.

Joanna Elizabeth Mead and Augustus Dennis "Gus" Shepard were married on 25 September 1862 in Warren, Warren Co., PA. Augustus Dennis "Gus" Shepard was born on 25 January 1836 in Warren, Warren Co., PA. He lived in NY, NY in 1862. He lived in Scotch Plains, Union Co., NJ in 1871. Gus died on 30 September 1913. He lived in Plainfield, Union Co., NJ.

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Sources

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC2N-D7V : 9 November 2014), Joanna Mead in household of Larkin G Mead, Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont, United States; citing family 388, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9V3-3NG : accessed 14 June 2017), Augustus D Shepard, Fanwood Town, Fanwood borough, Union, New Jersey, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 118, sheet 13A, family 248, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,996.
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCSQ-PS8 : 13 July 2016), Augustus D. Shepard in entry for Rutherford M. Shepard and Winifred P. Kay, 23 Feb 1907; citing Marriage, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 827,718.
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG7-39PG : 11 July 2016), Johanna E Mead Shepard, ; Burial, Scotch Plains, Union, New Jersey, United States of America, Hillside Cemetery; citing record ID 113764631, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.