The graves for Lucinda Nelson-Shepard and her daughters, Embrasella and Malisia were moved there in 1974. The Skamania County Port Commission purchased the property that was originally known as Shepard's Point, because the existing Bonneville Dam, on the Columbia River, was being expanded.
Shepard's Point was the name of the 1853 Donation Land Claim property of Henry and Lucinda Nelson-Shepard. Today that property is part of the City of Stevenson. Lucinda and Henry had met coming across The Oregon Trail in different trains and were married three days later at Fort Boise on 6 September 1852. After spending the first winter at Fort Dalles, now The Dalles, Oregon, they came on down river, settled at what was then Cascades, Oregon Territory, and had seven children.
Lucinda's family went on to Portland and took up property up in the Council Crest area, on the high hills overlooking Portland from the west.
There was a small burial plot at Shepard's Point with just one headstone and the graves of Lucinda and two of her daughters, Embrasilla and Melissa. Also in that plot were two unmarked graves and they all needed to be moved or they would soon be under water.
The only living relative in 1974 was a 66 year old granddaughter who, at age 8, had moved from the area to Goldendale, Washington. She was contacted and she thought that one of the unmarked graves was that of Henry & Lucinda's son, William, and the second grave possibly a neighbor who Miss Shepard could not remember.
The five graves and the original headstone were moved the one mile east to the Stevenson Cemetery. A new headstone was made for "William T. Shepard" and the unknown remains were put in new unmarked grave. Henry & Lucinda also had a son born about 1856, named Henry Jr, who drowned at a young age in the Wind River. So far, Shepard researchers have not been able to find his grave, record of his death or any information on the whereabouts of Henry Jr. I have always wondered if it might have been Henry Jr that was buried in one of the unmarked graves at Shepard's Point and then was moved to the Stevenson Cemetery and got the new headstone with William's name on it. Follow the two links below to the two headstones in Stevenson for William T. Shepard. That why we keep looking.
The property on the north bank of the Columbia River where the Stevenson Cemetery is now located, was at one time occupied by Francis Marion Vanderpool and Nancy Shepard-Vanderpool. Nancy was the oldest daughter of Henry Shepard and his first wife, Elizabeth Mattern-Shepard.
After Lucinda and Henry separated, she remarried and is in the 1870 Census for Skamania County, WA:
Edward W. Pendleton, age 51, Farmer
Lucinda Pendleton, age 42
Edward died between 1870 and 1880 as the 1880 Census for Skamania County, WA, indicates:
Lucy Pendleton, age 53, widow.
Shepard's Point was the name of the 1853 Donation Land Claim property of Henry and Lucinda Nelson-Shepard. Today that property is part of the City of Stevenson. Lucinda and Henry had met coming across The Oregon Trail in different trains and were married three days later at Fort Boise on 6 September 1852. After spending the first winter at Fort Dalles, now The Dalles, Oregon, they came on down river, settled at what was then Cascades, Oregon Territory, and had seven children.
Lucinda's family went on to Portland and took up property up in the Council Crest area, on the high hills overlooking Portland from the west.
There was a small burial plot at Shepard's Point with just one headstone and the graves of Lucinda and two of her daughters, Embrasilla and Melissa. Also in that plot were two unmarked graves and they all needed to be moved or they would soon be under water.
The only living relative in 1974 was a 66 year old granddaughter who, at age 8, had moved from the area to Goldendale, Washington. She was contacted and she thought that one of the unmarked graves was that of Henry & Lucinda's son, William, and the second grave possibly a neighbor who Miss Shepard could not remember.
The five graves and the original headstone were moved the one mile east to the Stevenson Cemetery. A new headstone was made for "William T. Shepard" and the unknown remains were put in new unmarked grave. Henry & Lucinda also had a son born about 1856, named Henry Jr, who drowned at a young age in the Wind River. So far, Shepard researchers have not been able to find his grave, record of his death or any information on the whereabouts of Henry Jr. I have always wondered if it might have been Henry Jr that was buried in one of the unmarked graves at Shepard's Point and then was moved to the Stevenson Cemetery and got the new headstone with William's name on it. Follow the two links below to the two headstones in Stevenson for William T. Shepard. That why we keep looking.
The property on the north bank of the Columbia River where the Stevenson Cemetery is now located, was at one time occupied by Francis Marion Vanderpool and Nancy Shepard-Vanderpool. Nancy was the oldest daughter of Henry Shepard and his first wife, Elizabeth Mattern-Shepard.
After Lucinda and Henry separated, she remarried and is in the 1870 Census for Skamania County, WA:
Edward W. Pendleton, age 51, Farmer
Lucinda Pendleton, age 42
Edward died between 1870 and 1880 as the 1880 Census for Skamania County, WA, indicates:
Lucy Pendleton, age 53, widow.
The graves for Lucinda Nelson-Shepard and her daughters, Embrasella and Malisia were moved there in 1974. The Skamania County Port Commission purchased the property that was originally known as Shepard's Point, because the existing Bonneville Dam, on the Columbia River, was being expanded.
Shepard's Point was the name of the 1853 Donation Land Claim property of Henry and Lucinda Nelson-Shepard. Today that property is part of the City of Stevenson. Lucinda and Henry had met coming across The Oregon Trail in different trains and were married three days later at Fort Boise on 6 September 1852. After spending the first winter at Fort Dalles, now The Dalles, Oregon, they came on down river, settled at what was then Cascades, Oregon Territory, and had seven children.
Lucinda's family went on to Portland and took up property up in the Council Crest area, on the high hills overlooking Portland from the west.
There was a small burial plot at Shepard's Point with just one headstone and the graves of Lucinda and two of her daughters, Embrasilla and Melissa. Also in that plot were two unmarked graves and they all needed to be moved or they would soon be under water.
The only living relative in 1974 was a 66 year old granddaughter who, at age 8, had moved from the area to Goldendale, Washington. She was contacted and she thought that one of the unmarked graves was that of Henry & Lucinda's son, William, and the second grave possibly a neighbor who Miss Shepard could not remember.
The five graves and the original headstone were moved the one mile east to the Stevenson Cemetery. A new headstone was made for "William T. Shepard" and the unknown remains were put in new unmarked grave. Henry & Lucinda also had a son born about 1856, named Henry Jr, who drowned at a young age in the Wind River. So far, Shepard researchers have not been able to find his grave, record of his death or any information on the whereabouts of Henry Jr. I have always wondered if it might have been Henry Jr that was buried in one of the unmarked graves at Shepard's Point and then was moved to the Stevenson Cemetery and got the new headstone with William's name on it. Follow the two links below to the two headstones in Stevenson for William T. Shepard. That why we keep looking.
The property on the north bank of the Columbia River where the Stevenson Cemetery is now located, was at one time occupied by Francis Marion Vanderpool and Nancy Shepard-Vanderpool. Nancy was the oldest daughter of Henry Shepard and his first wife, Elizabeth Mattern-Shepard.
After Lucinda and Henry separated, she remarried and is in the 1870 Census for Skamania County, WA:
Edward W. Pendleton, age 51, Farmer
Lucinda Pendleton, age 42
Edward died between 1870 and 1880 as the 1880 Census for Skamania County, WA, indicates:
Lucy Pendleton, age 53, widow.
Shepard's Point was the name of the 1853 Donation Land Claim property of Henry and Lucinda Nelson-Shepard. Today that property is part of the City of Stevenson. Lucinda and Henry had met coming across The Oregon Trail in different trains and were married three days later at Fort Boise on 6 September 1852. After spending the first winter at Fort Dalles, now The Dalles, Oregon, they came on down river, settled at what was then Cascades, Oregon Territory, and had seven children.
Lucinda's family went on to Portland and took up property up in the Council Crest area, on the high hills overlooking Portland from the west.
There was a small burial plot at Shepard's Point with just one headstone and the graves of Lucinda and two of her daughters, Embrasilla and Melissa. Also in that plot were two unmarked graves and they all needed to be moved or they would soon be under water.
The only living relative in 1974 was a 66 year old granddaughter who, at age 8, had moved from the area to Goldendale, Washington. She was contacted and she thought that one of the unmarked graves was that of Henry & Lucinda's son, William, and the second grave possibly a neighbor who Miss Shepard could not remember.
The five graves and the original headstone were moved the one mile east to the Stevenson Cemetery. A new headstone was made for "William T. Shepard" and the unknown remains were put in new unmarked grave. Henry & Lucinda also had a son born about 1856, named Henry Jr, who drowned at a young age in the Wind River. So far, Shepard researchers have not been able to find his grave, record of his death or any information on the whereabouts of Henry Jr. I have always wondered if it might have been Henry Jr that was buried in one of the unmarked graves at Shepard's Point and then was moved to the Stevenson Cemetery and got the new headstone with William's name on it. Follow the two links below to the two headstones in Stevenson for William T. Shepard. That why we keep looking.
The property on the north bank of the Columbia River where the Stevenson Cemetery is now located, was at one time occupied by Francis Marion Vanderpool and Nancy Shepard-Vanderpool. Nancy was the oldest daughter of Henry Shepard and his first wife, Elizabeth Mattern-Shepard.
After Lucinda and Henry separated, she remarried and is in the 1870 Census for Skamania County, WA:
Edward W. Pendleton, age 51, Farmer
Lucinda Pendleton, age 42
Edward died between 1870 and 1880 as the 1880 Census for Skamania County, WA, indicates:
Lucy Pendleton, age 53, widow.
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