John Shepherd and his wife, Rebecca Fees Shepherd, came from Adair County, Kentucky about 1838 and staked a claim one mile south of where the city of New London, Iowa is. Here they built a log cabin and for a year or two the Indians were very plentiful in the vicinity. The Shepherd children were Sarah(Mrs. Arthur) Cornwell, Nancy(Mrs. William) Lansinger, Martha(Mrs. Samuel) Hamell, Lewis who married Martha Cox, John who married Maggie Williams, [James Alvin]Alva who married [Lydia] Ann Reed, and William who married Minnie Pero. William, John and Alva served in the Civil war.
Martha's husband Samuel Hamell, was a brother of Phoebe(Mrs. Zebedee) Raines. Samuel and his brother Garrett enlisted in the Union Army at about the same time their oldest brother James enlisted in the Confederate Army and was never heard from again. Garrett died in service.
Information is from the New London Journal Centennial Edition 1875-1975. page 202
Also noted on page 63 is their son William to be buried in this cemetery and noted under Civil War Soldiers. "So, we must assume he is buried in this plot but no marker today is seen." I don't know what the sentence directly above in quotes means but Wm F Shepherd's monument has always been in this cemetery either the old one or the new as the pictures show on his findagrave memorial # 88293875.
Martha's husband Samuel Hamell, was a brother of Phoebe(Mrs. Zebedee) Raines. Samuel and his brother Garrett enlisted in the Union Army at about the same time their oldest brother James enlisted in the Confederate Army and was never heard from again. Garrett died in service.
Information is from the New London Journal Centennial Edition 1875-1975. page 202
Also noted on page 63 is their son William to be buried in this cemetery and noted under Civil War Soldiers. "So, we must assume he is buried in this plot but no marker today is seen." I don't know what the sentence directly above in quotes means but Wm F Shepherd's monument has always been in this cemetery either the old one or the new as the pictures show on his findagrave memorial # 88293875.
John Shepherd and his wife, Rebecca Fees Shepherd, came from Adair County, Kentucky about 1838 and staked a claim one mile south of where the city of New London, Iowa is. Here they built a log cabin and for a year or two the Indians were very plentiful in the vicinity. The Shepherd children were Sarah(Mrs. Arthur) Cornwell, Nancy(Mrs. William) Lansinger, Martha(Mrs. Samuel) Hamell, Lewis who married Martha Cox, John who married Maggie Williams, [James Alvin]Alva who married [Lydia] Ann Reed, and William who married Minnie Pero. William, John and Alva served in the Civil war.
Martha's husband Samuel Hamell, was a brother of Phoebe(Mrs. Zebedee) Raines. Samuel and his brother Garrett enlisted in the Union Army at about the same time their oldest brother James enlisted in the Confederate Army and was never heard from again. Garrett died in service.
Information is from the New London Journal Centennial Edition 1875-1975. page 202
Also noted on page 63 is their son William to be buried in this cemetery and noted under Civil War Soldiers. "So, we must assume he is buried in this plot but no marker today is seen." I don't know what the sentence directly above in quotes means but Wm F Shepherd's monument has always been in this cemetery either the old one or the new as the pictures show on his findagrave memorial # 88293875.
Martha's husband Samuel Hamell, was a brother of Phoebe(Mrs. Zebedee) Raines. Samuel and his brother Garrett enlisted in the Union Army at about the same time their oldest brother James enlisted in the Confederate Army and was never heard from again. Garrett died in service.
Information is from the New London Journal Centennial Edition 1875-1975. page 202
Also noted on page 63 is their son William to be buried in this cemetery and noted under Civil War Soldiers. "So, we must assume he is buried in this plot but no marker today is seen." I don't know what the sentence directly above in quotes means but Wm F Shepherd's monument has always been in this cemetery either the old one or the new as the pictures show on his findagrave memorial # 88293875.
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