Abraham
Shepherd
Born in Mecklenburg, Frederick, Virginia
Ancestors 
Brother of
Rebecca (Shepherd) Warnock, David Shepherd, John Shepherd, Sarah (Shepherd) Thornburg, Elizabeth (Shepherd) Brown, William Shepherd, Mary (Shepherd) Van Cleave, Thomas Shepherd, John Shepherd Sr., Martha Matilda Shepherd, Mary (Shepherd) Buchanan and Susannah Shepherd
Husband of
Mary (Peppers) Shepherd
— married
about 18 Aug 1780 [location unknown]
Husband of
Eleanor (Strode) Shepherd
— married
27 Dec 1780 in Berkeley County, WV
Descendants 
Father of
James Strode Shepherd, Rezin Davis Shepherd, Abraham Shepherd, James Hervey Shepherd, Henry Shepherd, Annie Shepherd, Eliza Shepherd and Charles Moses Shepherd
Died
at age 67
in Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, Virginia, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 14 Sep 2010
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Biography
Birth
- 10 Nov 1754 Mecklenburg, Frederick County, VA
Sources
- Smyth, Samuel Gordon. A Genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre Family (New Era Printing Co., Lancaster, PA, 1909) Page 244
- Ancestral File Number: QGSM-0S
- "West Virginia Will Books, 1756-1971," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2QM-5R76 : 12 March 2018), Abraham Shepherd, 1817; citing Jefferson, West Virginia, United States, Will book, v. 003 1816-1823, page 391, county courthouses, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 828,424.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Abraham by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Abraham by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- John Sheppard
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, haplogroup S-20054, FTDNA kit #369668
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~0.78%
Rich Lowe :
23andMe, GEDmatch A782766 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A782766 [compare], Ancestry member richlowe46
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MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch A782766 [compare]
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~0.78%
William Ferrell :
23andMe, GEDmatch M205435 [compare]
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~0.78%
Jeannette (Stephens) Wood :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch AQ9316943 [compare], yourDNAportal JEAa07897e2, Ancestry member loneagle2
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~0.78%
Hartley Bloomfield :
AncestryDNA
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Sharon Casteel
The two marriages are very close together; did Abraham really marry two different women five months apart, or are two different Abraham Shepherds mixed up in this profile?
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by Sharon Casteel
Dawn Schindler
Shepherd-117 and Shepherd-258 appear to represent the same person because: Hello! I believe these are the same person. If you agree, please complete the merge when you have a chance. Thank you. :)
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by Dawn Schindler
Rejected matches › Warren Abraham Shepherd (1914-2009)
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