James William Sheppard Sr. (1736 - 1791)

Born 4 Mar 1736 in Orange County, Virginia, British Colonial America

Ancestors

Husband of Jeanette (Riddell) Sheppard — married 1760 in Orange, Virginia

Husband of Jannett (Riddle) Sheppard — married about 1760 in Orange, Virginia

Descendants

Died 17 Sep 1791 at age 55 in Newberry, South Carolina, United States

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Copy of Memorandum of Samuel Sheppard, father of James Sheppard, in his own hand.

February the third, 1792

My children,

I sit this cold day thinking of the past and decide to put down some of the things I would have you remember. I begin now and will finish some time when I feel less wearied than I now do. But I do not know whether I shall ever write much more. Time has run, the glass is near emptied.

I was born on the 3rd of February, 1730, and today is my birthday, which set me thinking of the past. I would I had written long ago, there are many things to tell, and my eyes are poor. My mother was Miss Mary Kavanagh, born in France, of the eminent old Irish family. Her father was Michael Kavanagh, whose father James Kavanagh, married while in exile in Spain Senorita Dolores Campomanes; Michael Kavanagh married while visiting the Irish exiles in France Mademoiselle Bertha Dumas, daughter of a Parisian gentleman, Rene Dumas and his wife, Gertrude Strauss of Vienna, Austria. My father Samuel Sheppard married Miss Kavanagh in Gloucester, where I and my sisters and brothers were reared. My brothers, Robert and William moved to North Carolina and reared families. James went to the Kentucky country of late, as he was the youngest child. My sisters married and scattered over the state long ago.

I married Anne Burwell in Gloucester County, the details of your own kind you know, or can discover in the record.

I doubt if a man can ever impart the sum of his experiences to his children. Experience is the result of living and no man can live but his one time. I would have you ever remember your origin and consider the words of the Book which lay down the rules of life. I read when a child the words of the Book and I have never learned anything contrary to them. I know they are true now that I have lived my own time. And when you rebel at the saying of the old prophets, think, my children, now knowing who those old men were, how long their words have lived when even peoples have passed away and their place knoweth them not. I think that no man can dispute the word of God, but many neglect it. Do you not so.

As for me, I remember the Psalmist, who said, Man is born unto trouble As the sparks fly upward.

There are many things to remark, yet time has fled for it. May God make you what I desire you to be, is the prayer of your father.

Samuel Sheppard

Biography

Private James Sheppard Sr. served with Ninety-Six District Regiment, South Carolina Militia during the American Revolution.

James Sheppard Sr. is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A102990.

Name

James /Sheppard/^[1][2]

Birth

04 MAR 1736 Virginia,^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S00021 Data: Text: CONT Birth date: 1740 CONT Birth place: Virginia, CONT
2. ↑ Source: #S00009 Page: Ancestry Family Trees Data: Text: CONT
3. ↑ Source: #S00021 Data: Text: CONT Birth date: 1740 CONT Birth place: Virginia, CONT

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Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Celeste Shepherd for creating WikiTree profile Sheppard-725 through the import of JordanMcPherson Family tree_2013-05-04.ged on May 4, 2013.