wife of Alexander Shepherd who died in mid-1845.
known children: Alexander Robey Shepherd Sr., Thomas M. Shepherd, Anna Jane Shepherd Merchant, Wilmer Smith Shepherd
The Death of Mrs. Susan Shepherd - After a severe and protracted illness, Mrs. Susan D. Shepherd died Saturday at the residence of her eldest son, ex-Governor A. R. Shepherd. Deceased was in the sixty-sixth year of her age, and was one of the well-known Robey family of Charles county, Md. While they were in their youth and infancy whe was widowed with the charge of six children - four sons and two daughters. A sudden reverse of fortune deprived her of the means bequeathed by her dead husband, and with a heroism worthy of more than a passing notice she struggled bravely on to educate and properly rear those left to her care. How well she succeeded the community can bear witness without the words of flattery. From her childhood a professing Christian, soon after her arrival in this city she became a member of the 9th-street Presbyterian Church, Rev. J. C. Smith pastor, and has ever since been a devout and consistent worshipper therein. Quiet and unostentatious in manner, her life was a perfect exemplification of the golden rule, "Do unto others as ye would have others do unto you." Truly she never let her right hand know what the left was doing. Ripe with years, she goes to the judgment seat after a well spent life, with the full consciousness of a deserved and lasting home at the right hand of the Saviour. Her funeral took place from the residence of Gov. Shepherd, corned of Connecticut avenue and K street, this afternoon at 2 o'clock.
(Evening Star, 28 December 1874)
known children: Alexander Robey Shepherd Sr., Thomas M. Shepherd, Anna Jane Shepherd Merchant, Wilmer Smith Shepherd
The Death of Mrs. Susan Shepherd - After a severe and protracted illness, Mrs. Susan D. Shepherd died Saturday at the residence of her eldest son, ex-Governor A. R. Shepherd. Deceased was in the sixty-sixth year of her age, and was one of the well-known Robey family of Charles county, Md. While they were in their youth and infancy whe was widowed with the charge of six children - four sons and two daughters. A sudden reverse of fortune deprived her of the means bequeathed by her dead husband, and with a heroism worthy of more than a passing notice she struggled bravely on to educate and properly rear those left to her care. How well she succeeded the community can bear witness without the words of flattery. From her childhood a professing Christian, soon after her arrival in this city she became a member of the 9th-street Presbyterian Church, Rev. J. C. Smith pastor, and has ever since been a devout and consistent worshipper therein. Quiet and unostentatious in manner, her life was a perfect exemplification of the golden rule, "Do unto others as ye would have others do unto you." Truly she never let her right hand know what the left was doing. Ripe with years, she goes to the judgment seat after a well spent life, with the full consciousness of a deserved and lasting home at the right hand of the Saviour. Her funeral took place from the residence of Gov. Shepherd, corned of Connecticut avenue and K street, this afternoon at 2 o'clock.
(Evening Star, 28 December 1874)
wife of Alexander Shepherd who died in mid-1845.
known children: Alexander Robey Shepherd Sr., Thomas M. Shepherd, Anna Jane Shepherd Merchant, Wilmer Smith Shepherd
The Death of Mrs. Susan Shepherd - After a severe and protracted illness, Mrs. Susan D. Shepherd died Saturday at the residence of her eldest son, ex-Governor A. R. Shepherd. Deceased was in the sixty-sixth year of her age, and was one of the well-known Robey family of Charles county, Md. While they were in their youth and infancy whe was widowed with the charge of six children - four sons and two daughters. A sudden reverse of fortune deprived her of the means bequeathed by her dead husband, and with a heroism worthy of more than a passing notice she struggled bravely on to educate and properly rear those left to her care. How well she succeeded the community can bear witness without the words of flattery. From her childhood a professing Christian, soon after her arrival in this city she became a member of the 9th-street Presbyterian Church, Rev. J. C. Smith pastor, and has ever since been a devout and consistent worshipper therein. Quiet and unostentatious in manner, her life was a perfect exemplification of the golden rule, "Do unto others as ye would have others do unto you." Truly she never let her right hand know what the left was doing. Ripe with years, she goes to the judgment seat after a well spent life, with the full consciousness of a deserved and lasting home at the right hand of the Saviour. Her funeral took place from the residence of Gov. Shepherd, corned of Connecticut avenue and K street, this afternoon at 2 o'clock.
(Evening Star, 28 December 1874)
known children: Alexander Robey Shepherd Sr., Thomas M. Shepherd, Anna Jane Shepherd Merchant, Wilmer Smith Shepherd
The Death of Mrs. Susan Shepherd - After a severe and protracted illness, Mrs. Susan D. Shepherd died Saturday at the residence of her eldest son, ex-Governor A. R. Shepherd. Deceased was in the sixty-sixth year of her age, and was one of the well-known Robey family of Charles county, Md. While they were in their youth and infancy whe was widowed with the charge of six children - four sons and two daughters. A sudden reverse of fortune deprived her of the means bequeathed by her dead husband, and with a heroism worthy of more than a passing notice she struggled bravely on to educate and properly rear those left to her care. How well she succeeded the community can bear witness without the words of flattery. From her childhood a professing Christian, soon after her arrival in this city she became a member of the 9th-street Presbyterian Church, Rev. J. C. Smith pastor, and has ever since been a devout and consistent worshipper therein. Quiet and unostentatious in manner, her life was a perfect exemplification of the golden rule, "Do unto others as ye would have others do unto you." Truly she never let her right hand know what the left was doing. Ripe with years, she goes to the judgment seat after a well spent life, with the full consciousness of a deserved and lasting home at the right hand of the Saviour. Her funeral took place from the residence of Gov. Shepherd, corned of Connecticut avenue and K street, this afternoon at 2 o'clock.
(Evening Star, 28 December 1874)
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