Silas married Nancy LAKE, circa 1821. She gave birth to at least 2 children named Alma W, and Catharine Shepherd.
Silas is enumerated as head of household in the 1840 census at Troy Twp., Bradford Co., Pennsylvania. The census count is 000101-0101001. The children are likely Alma, age 5-9, or born 1830-1835, and Catherine, age 15-19, or born 1820-1825. There is a young male, age 15-19, or born 1820-1825, who may or may not be a child of Silas and Nancy.
Silas, Mary and family are enumerated in the 1850 census at Troy, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania. Silas' occupation is Clergyman. The value of his real estate is $2000. The 1850 census data follows:
Silas E Shepard M 49 NY
Nancy L Shepard F 54 PA
Alma Shepard F 19 PA
Margaret Gould F 13 PA
Silas and Nancy are enumerated in the 1860 census at Troy, Bradford County. In that record, Silas' occupation is Physician. The value of his real estate is $3500 and the value of his personal property is $2500. The 1860 census data follows:
Silas E Shepard M 59 NY
Nancy Shepard F 64 PA
S E and Mary are enumerated in the 1870 census record at Troy Borough. His occupation is Minister. The value of his real estate is $10,000 and the value of his personal property is $10,000.
Samuel died aged 76 years. Problems probating estate, two daughters.
[History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Selections, by H. C. Bradsby, 1891, p. 328]
Homeopathic Physician.
"Dr. Silas E. Shepherd was probably the first of this school (Homeopathy) in the county. He was a preacher; settled in Troy in 1828, and took up the practice of medicine, and when he removed to New York, turned his patients over to his brother, Dr. Samuel W. Shepherd, who successfully practiced until quite recently, and is now mostly retired; considers himself wholly so, but occasionally presecribed for some old friends."
[History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches by H.C. Bradsby, 1891, Biographical Sketches pp. 1155-1164]
Shepard.
"Among the most prominent families of Western Bradford were two sons of John Shepard, namely, Silas E. Shepard, D.D. (deceased), and Samuel W. Shepard, M.D., of Troy, representatives of the Shepard and Bonesteel families. John Shepard married Elizabeth Bonesteel; he was a son of John and Abigail (Eaton) the son of Daniel and Jane (Hosmer), the son of Daniel and Mary (Smedley), the son of John and Sarah, the son of Ralph and Thanks. Ralph came from England in 1635; died Sept., 11, 1693, age ninety years.
"John Milton Shepard, son of Silas E. Shepard, died June 1, 1853. He married, December 29, 1846, Matilda Willey Benton, who was born Aug. 14, 1824. Allen Benton, her father, was born June 9, 1792, married July 22, 1819; his wife, Deborah (Willey), was born February 1, 1797. Allen Benton died Sept. 12, 1879; Deborah (Willey) Benton died Aug. 23, 1867. Milton left one daughter, who married Rev. D. W. Hart, now of Wilton, Connecticut.
"John Shepard, who married Elizabeth Bonesteel, was born Dec. 26, 1780, died March 8, 1833. Elizabeth Bonesteel was born Nov. 26, 1781, died May 1, 1832. Their children were: Paul, born March 25, 1799, married Mercy Osborne, born May 13, 1800, died October 7, 1876. Silas Eaton, born February 2, 1801, died in Troy, Pennsylvania, Nov. 12, 1877; he married Nancy Lake in 1821; had three children: Catherine, John Milton, and Alma Wright. Luke, born March 19, 1803, died April 20, 1837, married Jerusha Boynton; his children were Manly and Jackson. John, born March 28, 1805, died in 1826. Millicent, born Sept. 5, 1807, died in 1826. Stephen A., born Oct. 4, 1809, died in 1888. Betsey. Shepard, born in 1812, died in Bay City in 1876.Lysander Curtis, born April 6, 1814. Daniel Bonesteel, born April 19, 1816, died in Bay City in 1875. Samuel W., born Sept. 24, 1818. Rosina, born Nov. 7, 1821, died in 1886.
"Dr. Samuel W. Shepard, was born in New Berlin, Chenango (then Broome) County, New York. When one-year-old his parents moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he attended school from five until ten years of age; thence to Bradford County, attending school in Canton and Granville townships until fifteen years of age; thence traveled through Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, and returned in January, 1838, after nearly four years spent in the then "far west."
"He married Amanda, daughter of Scovil Bailey, of Granville, and settled on a farm; having studied medicine several years in various ways as Regular, Thomsonian, or Eclectic, he commenced the practice in a small neighborhood, and, in 1846, studying Homeopathy under his brother, Silas E. Shepard, M.D., who was in practice in Troy. His brother removing to New York City, Dr. Samuel took his practice in Western Bradford, and has continued with wonderful success until the present time; but now, being in his seventy-third year, he cares not to be burdened with the sick. In politics, he is always a Democrat. He has held all of the township offices, from school director to Justice of the peace, and was three years County auditors; in 1855 he was Democratic nominee for Representative, receiving every vote in Troy Township and borough, but a coalition of the Free-Soilers and Whigs defeated the Democrats. In religion he is a Disciple.
"Dr. S. W. Shepard and Amanda Bailey were joined in wedlock, September 2, 1838. She was a daughter of Scovil and Jerusha (Hail) Bailey, of Granville Township, formerly of Connecticut, and of this marriage were four children; the eldest, Jersuha E., born Oct. 27, 1841, married May 7, 1872, William J. Hillis, M.D., of Herrick, who died in 1888. She has three children-two daughters and one son. Lovinia, born Sept. 25, 1844, married H. M. Spalding, son of Andrew Spalding, of Canton; they have four children-one daughter and three sons. O'Meara, born in 1847, of Granville Centre, a farmer, has three sons, Earnest, Samuel, and George, of Granville Centre, and Philena, married to AM Wooster of Granville; they are now living in Troy. Mrs. Wooster has three sons, making thirteen grandchildren, all healthy and understanding the principles of homeopathy.
"The Doctor has but one brother now living, out of eleven children-eight sons and three daughters. The brother, Lysander Curtis Shepard, Esq., was born in April 1814, and never remembers of being confined to the house one day by sickness. He has lived in Fallbrook, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, about thirty-five years, except six years in Raleigh, North Carolina. When in Fallbrook he held the office of Justice of the peace the entire time while there. He has three sons and one daughter living, having lost two daughters. The Doctor's relatives are very numerous on the maternal and paternal sides, living in every State of the Union."
What follows here is a publication of meeting notes from a quarterly gathering of members of Churches of Christ of Bradford and Tioga Counties.
Dr. S. E. SHEPARD
"Resolutions concerning the death of Dr. Silas E. Shepard, adopted at Quarterly meeting
held at Leroy, Dec. 14-16, 1877.
"Whereas, In the course of God's Providence our venerable, long known and will beloved Brother Silas E. Shepard has been removed from among us by the hand of death; and Whereas, From his having been the first to establish in these counties the cause we love in common, as he loved it and labored through a long life for its advancement, thus
becoming the father in the gospel of individuals and churches. Therefore, be it
Resolved. 1st. That at this the first Quarterly gathering of the Churches of Christ of
Bradford and Tioga Counties since his departure, we express our united appreciation of
the man and of his labors, and our own peculiar sorrow that we shall see his face no
more.
(a), Of the man, recognizing in him at all times, and in his bearing toward all men, the
Christian gentleman, considerate, kind hearted, polite; at once superior in natural
endowment and in acquired wisdom, jet never asserting this superiority to the discomfort
of his less favored associates in the ministry or in private life.
(b) Of his labors, esteeming him very highly in love for his works sake; we lament his
loss as one in whom we had a sage counselor, an able advocate, and a representative man. 2nd, That as preachers, having enjoyed the communion of so worthy a fellow laborer, we will endeavor to emulate his example and to come up more fully in the standards of excellency we recognize in him.
3d, That we will endeavor by extra kindly bearing, counsel, and co-operation, so to
labor as not to let the cause suffer as first seemed unavoidable by this our so great loss;
and that we exhort the brethren ever where to unite with us in renewed diligence,
humility and prayerfulness to the realization of this most desired end.
4th, That, our lamented Brother having been admitted by those in the most educated
circles to be a peer in the scholarship, we ought to feel favored as a people that the
superior light of that scholarship has been diffused in our own communities during so
long a period of years.
5th That in so far as possible, we will endeavor to find compensation for our loss by
embalming him in our hearts, and committing to virtues of his life to the sacred keeping
of tender memory.
6th, That, we all, in this assembly of brethren and friends, unite our sincere sympathies
for the more deeply bereaved relatives and especially for her who was so long his faithful
partner in life, but now sits in lonely widowhood. & only waiting till the Master shall bid
her come to meet him who has gone before.
"Resolved further, That we recommend that these resolutions be entered upon the church
records of the two counties herein named. That a copy be forwarded to the widow of the
deceased/ and that copies be forwarded to the county papers and to the Christian Standard with request for publication, and with request that our other religious papers copy."
Irvin Wilson,
S. A. Rockwell,
I. R. Spencer,
B. H. Hayden,
Committee
Silas is enumerated as head of household in the 1840 census at Troy Twp., Bradford Co., Pennsylvania. The census count is 000101-0101001. The children are likely Alma, age 5-9, or born 1830-1835, and Catherine, age 15-19, or born 1820-1825. There is a young male, age 15-19, or born 1820-1825, who may or may not be a child of Silas and Nancy.
Silas, Mary and family are enumerated in the 1850 census at Troy, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania. Silas' occupation is Clergyman. The value of his real estate is $2000. The 1850 census data follows:
Silas E Shepard M 49 NY
Nancy L Shepard F 54 PA
Alma Shepard F 19 PA
Margaret Gould F 13 PA
Silas and Nancy are enumerated in the 1860 census at Troy, Bradford County. In that record, Silas' occupation is Physician. The value of his real estate is $3500 and the value of his personal property is $2500. The 1860 census data follows:
Silas E Shepard M 59 NY
Nancy Shepard F 64 PA
S E and Mary are enumerated in the 1870 census record at Troy Borough. His occupation is Minister. The value of his real estate is $10,000 and the value of his personal property is $10,000.
Samuel died aged 76 years. Problems probating estate, two daughters.
[History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Selections, by H. C. Bradsby, 1891, p. 328]
Homeopathic Physician.
"Dr. Silas E. Shepherd was probably the first of this school (Homeopathy) in the county. He was a preacher; settled in Troy in 1828, and took up the practice of medicine, and when he removed to New York, turned his patients over to his brother, Dr. Samuel W. Shepherd, who successfully practiced until quite recently, and is now mostly retired; considers himself wholly so, but occasionally presecribed for some old friends."
[History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches by H.C. Bradsby, 1891, Biographical Sketches pp. 1155-1164]
Shepard.
"Among the most prominent families of Western Bradford were two sons of John Shepard, namely, Silas E. Shepard, D.D. (deceased), and Samuel W. Shepard, M.D., of Troy, representatives of the Shepard and Bonesteel families. John Shepard married Elizabeth Bonesteel; he was a son of John and Abigail (Eaton) the son of Daniel and Jane (Hosmer), the son of Daniel and Mary (Smedley), the son of John and Sarah, the son of Ralph and Thanks. Ralph came from England in 1635; died Sept., 11, 1693, age ninety years.
"John Milton Shepard, son of Silas E. Shepard, died June 1, 1853. He married, December 29, 1846, Matilda Willey Benton, who was born Aug. 14, 1824. Allen Benton, her father, was born June 9, 1792, married July 22, 1819; his wife, Deborah (Willey), was born February 1, 1797. Allen Benton died Sept. 12, 1879; Deborah (Willey) Benton died Aug. 23, 1867. Milton left one daughter, who married Rev. D. W. Hart, now of Wilton, Connecticut.
"John Shepard, who married Elizabeth Bonesteel, was born Dec. 26, 1780, died March 8, 1833. Elizabeth Bonesteel was born Nov. 26, 1781, died May 1, 1832. Their children were: Paul, born March 25, 1799, married Mercy Osborne, born May 13, 1800, died October 7, 1876. Silas Eaton, born February 2, 1801, died in Troy, Pennsylvania, Nov. 12, 1877; he married Nancy Lake in 1821; had three children: Catherine, John Milton, and Alma Wright. Luke, born March 19, 1803, died April 20, 1837, married Jerusha Boynton; his children were Manly and Jackson. John, born March 28, 1805, died in 1826. Millicent, born Sept. 5, 1807, died in 1826. Stephen A., born Oct. 4, 1809, died in 1888. Betsey. Shepard, born in 1812, died in Bay City in 1876.Lysander Curtis, born April 6, 1814. Daniel Bonesteel, born April 19, 1816, died in Bay City in 1875. Samuel W., born Sept. 24, 1818. Rosina, born Nov. 7, 1821, died in 1886.
"Dr. Samuel W. Shepard, was born in New Berlin, Chenango (then Broome) County, New York. When one-year-old his parents moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he attended school from five until ten years of age; thence to Bradford County, attending school in Canton and Granville townships until fifteen years of age; thence traveled through Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, and returned in January, 1838, after nearly four years spent in the then "far west."
"He married Amanda, daughter of Scovil Bailey, of Granville, and settled on a farm; having studied medicine several years in various ways as Regular, Thomsonian, or Eclectic, he commenced the practice in a small neighborhood, and, in 1846, studying Homeopathy under his brother, Silas E. Shepard, M.D., who was in practice in Troy. His brother removing to New York City, Dr. Samuel took his practice in Western Bradford, and has continued with wonderful success until the present time; but now, being in his seventy-third year, he cares not to be burdened with the sick. In politics, he is always a Democrat. He has held all of the township offices, from school director to Justice of the peace, and was three years County auditors; in 1855 he was Democratic nominee for Representative, receiving every vote in Troy Township and borough, but a coalition of the Free-Soilers and Whigs defeated the Democrats. In religion he is a Disciple.
"Dr. S. W. Shepard and Amanda Bailey were joined in wedlock, September 2, 1838. She was a daughter of Scovil and Jerusha (Hail) Bailey, of Granville Township, formerly of Connecticut, and of this marriage were four children; the eldest, Jersuha E., born Oct. 27, 1841, married May 7, 1872, William J. Hillis, M.D., of Herrick, who died in 1888. She has three children-two daughters and one son. Lovinia, born Sept. 25, 1844, married H. M. Spalding, son of Andrew Spalding, of Canton; they have four children-one daughter and three sons. O'Meara, born in 1847, of Granville Centre, a farmer, has three sons, Earnest, Samuel, and George, of Granville Centre, and Philena, married to AM Wooster of Granville; they are now living in Troy. Mrs. Wooster has three sons, making thirteen grandchildren, all healthy and understanding the principles of homeopathy.
"The Doctor has but one brother now living, out of eleven children-eight sons and three daughters. The brother, Lysander Curtis Shepard, Esq., was born in April 1814, and never remembers of being confined to the house one day by sickness. He has lived in Fallbrook, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, about thirty-five years, except six years in Raleigh, North Carolina. When in Fallbrook he held the office of Justice of the peace the entire time while there. He has three sons and one daughter living, having lost two daughters. The Doctor's relatives are very numerous on the maternal and paternal sides, living in every State of the Union."
What follows here is a publication of meeting notes from a quarterly gathering of members of Churches of Christ of Bradford and Tioga Counties.
Dr. S. E. SHEPARD
"Resolutions concerning the death of Dr. Silas E. Shepard, adopted at Quarterly meeting
held at Leroy, Dec. 14-16, 1877.
"Whereas, In the course of God's Providence our venerable, long known and will beloved Brother Silas E. Shepard has been removed from among us by the hand of death; and Whereas, From his having been the first to establish in these counties the cause we love in common, as he loved it and labored through a long life for its advancement, thus
becoming the father in the gospel of individuals and churches. Therefore, be it
Resolved. 1st. That at this the first Quarterly gathering of the Churches of Christ of
Bradford and Tioga Counties since his departure, we express our united appreciation of
the man and of his labors, and our own peculiar sorrow that we shall see his face no
more.
(a), Of the man, recognizing in him at all times, and in his bearing toward all men, the
Christian gentleman, considerate, kind hearted, polite; at once superior in natural
endowment and in acquired wisdom, jet never asserting this superiority to the discomfort
of his less favored associates in the ministry or in private life.
(b) Of his labors, esteeming him very highly in love for his works sake; we lament his
loss as one in whom we had a sage counselor, an able advocate, and a representative man. 2nd, That as preachers, having enjoyed the communion of so worthy a fellow laborer, we will endeavor to emulate his example and to come up more fully in the standards of excellency we recognize in him.
3d, That we will endeavor by extra kindly bearing, counsel, and co-operation, so to
labor as not to let the cause suffer as first seemed unavoidable by this our so great loss;
and that we exhort the brethren ever where to unite with us in renewed diligence,
humility and prayerfulness to the realization of this most desired end.
4th, That, our lamented Brother having been admitted by those in the most educated
circles to be a peer in the scholarship, we ought to feel favored as a people that the
superior light of that scholarship has been diffused in our own communities during so
long a period of years.
5th That in so far as possible, we will endeavor to find compensation for our loss by
embalming him in our hearts, and committing to virtues of his life to the sacred keeping
of tender memory.
6th, That, we all, in this assembly of brethren and friends, unite our sincere sympathies
for the more deeply bereaved relatives and especially for her who was so long his faithful
partner in life, but now sits in lonely widowhood. & only waiting till the Master shall bid
her come to meet him who has gone before.
"Resolved further, That we recommend that these resolutions be entered upon the church
records of the two counties herein named. That a copy be forwarded to the widow of the
deceased/ and that copies be forwarded to the county papers and to the Christian Standard with request for publication, and with request that our other religious papers copy."
Irvin Wilson,
S. A. Rockwell,
I. R. Spencer,
B. H. Hayden,
Committee
Silas married Nancy LAKE, circa 1821. She gave birth to at least 2 children named Alma W, and Catharine Shepherd.
Silas is enumerated as head of household in the 1840 census at Troy Twp., Bradford Co., Pennsylvania. The census count is 000101-0101001. The children are likely Alma, age 5-9, or born 1830-1835, and Catherine, age 15-19, or born 1820-1825. There is a young male, age 15-19, or born 1820-1825, who may or may not be a child of Silas and Nancy.
Silas, Mary and family are enumerated in the 1850 census at Troy, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania. Silas' occupation is Clergyman. The value of his real estate is $2000. The 1850 census data follows:
Silas E Shepard M 49 NY
Nancy L Shepard F 54 PA
Alma Shepard F 19 PA
Margaret Gould F 13 PA
Silas and Nancy are enumerated in the 1860 census at Troy, Bradford County. In that record, Silas' occupation is Physician. The value of his real estate is $3500 and the value of his personal property is $2500. The 1860 census data follows:
Silas E Shepard M 59 NY
Nancy Shepard F 64 PA
S E and Mary are enumerated in the 1870 census record at Troy Borough. His occupation is Minister. The value of his real estate is $10,000 and the value of his personal property is $10,000.
Samuel died aged 76 years. Problems probating estate, two daughters.
[History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Selections, by H. C. Bradsby, 1891, p. 328]
Homeopathic Physician.
"Dr. Silas E. Shepherd was probably the first of this school (Homeopathy) in the county. He was a preacher; settled in Troy in 1828, and took up the practice of medicine, and when he removed to New York, turned his patients over to his brother, Dr. Samuel W. Shepherd, who successfully practiced until quite recently, and is now mostly retired; considers himself wholly so, but occasionally presecribed for some old friends."
[History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches by H.C. Bradsby, 1891, Biographical Sketches pp. 1155-1164]
Shepard.
"Among the most prominent families of Western Bradford were two sons of John Shepard, namely, Silas E. Shepard, D.D. (deceased), and Samuel W. Shepard, M.D., of Troy, representatives of the Shepard and Bonesteel families. John Shepard married Elizabeth Bonesteel; he was a son of John and Abigail (Eaton) the son of Daniel and Jane (Hosmer), the son of Daniel and Mary (Smedley), the son of John and Sarah, the son of Ralph and Thanks. Ralph came from England in 1635; died Sept., 11, 1693, age ninety years.
"John Milton Shepard, son of Silas E. Shepard, died June 1, 1853. He married, December 29, 1846, Matilda Willey Benton, who was born Aug. 14, 1824. Allen Benton, her father, was born June 9, 1792, married July 22, 1819; his wife, Deborah (Willey), was born February 1, 1797. Allen Benton died Sept. 12, 1879; Deborah (Willey) Benton died Aug. 23, 1867. Milton left one daughter, who married Rev. D. W. Hart, now of Wilton, Connecticut.
"John Shepard, who married Elizabeth Bonesteel, was born Dec. 26, 1780, died March 8, 1833. Elizabeth Bonesteel was born Nov. 26, 1781, died May 1, 1832. Their children were: Paul, born March 25, 1799, married Mercy Osborne, born May 13, 1800, died October 7, 1876. Silas Eaton, born February 2, 1801, died in Troy, Pennsylvania, Nov. 12, 1877; he married Nancy Lake in 1821; had three children: Catherine, John Milton, and Alma Wright. Luke, born March 19, 1803, died April 20, 1837, married Jerusha Boynton; his children were Manly and Jackson. John, born March 28, 1805, died in 1826. Millicent, born Sept. 5, 1807, died in 1826. Stephen A., born Oct. 4, 1809, died in 1888. Betsey. Shepard, born in 1812, died in Bay City in 1876.Lysander Curtis, born April 6, 1814. Daniel Bonesteel, born April 19, 1816, died in Bay City in 1875. Samuel W., born Sept. 24, 1818. Rosina, born Nov. 7, 1821, died in 1886.
"Dr. Samuel W. Shepard, was born in New Berlin, Chenango (then Broome) County, New York. When one-year-old his parents moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he attended school from five until ten years of age; thence to Bradford County, attending school in Canton and Granville townships until fifteen years of age; thence traveled through Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, and returned in January, 1838, after nearly four years spent in the then "far west."
"He married Amanda, daughter of Scovil Bailey, of Granville, and settled on a farm; having studied medicine several years in various ways as Regular, Thomsonian, or Eclectic, he commenced the practice in a small neighborhood, and, in 1846, studying Homeopathy under his brother, Silas E. Shepard, M.D., who was in practice in Troy. His brother removing to New York City, Dr. Samuel took his practice in Western Bradford, and has continued with wonderful success until the present time; but now, being in his seventy-third year, he cares not to be burdened with the sick. In politics, he is always a Democrat. He has held all of the township offices, from school director to Justice of the peace, and was three years County auditors; in 1855 he was Democratic nominee for Representative, receiving every vote in Troy Township and borough, but a coalition of the Free-Soilers and Whigs defeated the Democrats. In religion he is a Disciple.
"Dr. S. W. Shepard and Amanda Bailey were joined in wedlock, September 2, 1838. She was a daughter of Scovil and Jerusha (Hail) Bailey, of Granville Township, formerly of Connecticut, and of this marriage were four children; the eldest, Jersuha E., born Oct. 27, 1841, married May 7, 1872, William J. Hillis, M.D., of Herrick, who died in 1888. She has three children-two daughters and one son. Lovinia, born Sept. 25, 1844, married H. M. Spalding, son of Andrew Spalding, of Canton; they have four children-one daughter and three sons. O'Meara, born in 1847, of Granville Centre, a farmer, has three sons, Earnest, Samuel, and George, of Granville Centre, and Philena, married to AM Wooster of Granville; they are now living in Troy. Mrs. Wooster has three sons, making thirteen grandchildren, all healthy and understanding the principles of homeopathy.
"The Doctor has but one brother now living, out of eleven children-eight sons and three daughters. The brother, Lysander Curtis Shepard, Esq., was born in April 1814, and never remembers of being confined to the house one day by sickness. He has lived in Fallbrook, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, about thirty-five years, except six years in Raleigh, North Carolina. When in Fallbrook he held the office of Justice of the peace the entire time while there. He has three sons and one daughter living, having lost two daughters. The Doctor's relatives are very numerous on the maternal and paternal sides, living in every State of the Union."
What follows here is a publication of meeting notes from a quarterly gathering of members of Churches of Christ of Bradford and Tioga Counties.
Dr. S. E. SHEPARD
"Resolutions concerning the death of Dr. Silas E. Shepard, adopted at Quarterly meeting
held at Leroy, Dec. 14-16, 1877.
"Whereas, In the course of God's Providence our venerable, long known and will beloved Brother Silas E. Shepard has been removed from among us by the hand of death; and Whereas, From his having been the first to establish in these counties the cause we love in common, as he loved it and labored through a long life for its advancement, thus
becoming the father in the gospel of individuals and churches. Therefore, be it
Resolved. 1st. That at this the first Quarterly gathering of the Churches of Christ of
Bradford and Tioga Counties since his departure, we express our united appreciation of
the man and of his labors, and our own peculiar sorrow that we shall see his face no
more.
(a), Of the man, recognizing in him at all times, and in his bearing toward all men, the
Christian gentleman, considerate, kind hearted, polite; at once superior in natural
endowment and in acquired wisdom, jet never asserting this superiority to the discomfort
of his less favored associates in the ministry or in private life.
(b) Of his labors, esteeming him very highly in love for his works sake; we lament his
loss as one in whom we had a sage counselor, an able advocate, and a representative man. 2nd, That as preachers, having enjoyed the communion of so worthy a fellow laborer, we will endeavor to emulate his example and to come up more fully in the standards of excellency we recognize in him.
3d, That we will endeavor by extra kindly bearing, counsel, and co-operation, so to
labor as not to let the cause suffer as first seemed unavoidable by this our so great loss;
and that we exhort the brethren ever where to unite with us in renewed diligence,
humility and prayerfulness to the realization of this most desired end.
4th, That, our lamented Brother having been admitted by those in the most educated
circles to be a peer in the scholarship, we ought to feel favored as a people that the
superior light of that scholarship has been diffused in our own communities during so
long a period of years.
5th That in so far as possible, we will endeavor to find compensation for our loss by
embalming him in our hearts, and committing to virtues of his life to the sacred keeping
of tender memory.
6th, That, we all, in this assembly of brethren and friends, unite our sincere sympathies
for the more deeply bereaved relatives and especially for her who was so long his faithful
partner in life, but now sits in lonely widowhood. & only waiting till the Master shall bid
her come to meet him who has gone before.
"Resolved further, That we recommend that these resolutions be entered upon the church
records of the two counties herein named. That a copy be forwarded to the widow of the
deceased/ and that copies be forwarded to the county papers and to the Christian Standard with request for publication, and with request that our other religious papers copy."
Irvin Wilson,
S. A. Rockwell,
I. R. Spencer,
B. H. Hayden,
Committee
Silas is enumerated as head of household in the 1840 census at Troy Twp., Bradford Co., Pennsylvania. The census count is 000101-0101001. The children are likely Alma, age 5-9, or born 1830-1835, and Catherine, age 15-19, or born 1820-1825. There is a young male, age 15-19, or born 1820-1825, who may or may not be a child of Silas and Nancy.
Silas, Mary and family are enumerated in the 1850 census at Troy, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania. Silas' occupation is Clergyman. The value of his real estate is $2000. The 1850 census data follows:
Silas E Shepard M 49 NY
Nancy L Shepard F 54 PA
Alma Shepard F 19 PA
Margaret Gould F 13 PA
Silas and Nancy are enumerated in the 1860 census at Troy, Bradford County. In that record, Silas' occupation is Physician. The value of his real estate is $3500 and the value of his personal property is $2500. The 1860 census data follows:
Silas E Shepard M 59 NY
Nancy Shepard F 64 PA
S E and Mary are enumerated in the 1870 census record at Troy Borough. His occupation is Minister. The value of his real estate is $10,000 and the value of his personal property is $10,000.
Samuel died aged 76 years. Problems probating estate, two daughters.
[History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Selections, by H. C. Bradsby, 1891, p. 328]
Homeopathic Physician.
"Dr. Silas E. Shepherd was probably the first of this school (Homeopathy) in the county. He was a preacher; settled in Troy in 1828, and took up the practice of medicine, and when he removed to New York, turned his patients over to his brother, Dr. Samuel W. Shepherd, who successfully practiced until quite recently, and is now mostly retired; considers himself wholly so, but occasionally presecribed for some old friends."
[History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches by H.C. Bradsby, 1891, Biographical Sketches pp. 1155-1164]
Shepard.
"Among the most prominent families of Western Bradford were two sons of John Shepard, namely, Silas E. Shepard, D.D. (deceased), and Samuel W. Shepard, M.D., of Troy, representatives of the Shepard and Bonesteel families. John Shepard married Elizabeth Bonesteel; he was a son of John and Abigail (Eaton) the son of Daniel and Jane (Hosmer), the son of Daniel and Mary (Smedley), the son of John and Sarah, the son of Ralph and Thanks. Ralph came from England in 1635; died Sept., 11, 1693, age ninety years.
"John Milton Shepard, son of Silas E. Shepard, died June 1, 1853. He married, December 29, 1846, Matilda Willey Benton, who was born Aug. 14, 1824. Allen Benton, her father, was born June 9, 1792, married July 22, 1819; his wife, Deborah (Willey), was born February 1, 1797. Allen Benton died Sept. 12, 1879; Deborah (Willey) Benton died Aug. 23, 1867. Milton left one daughter, who married Rev. D. W. Hart, now of Wilton, Connecticut.
"John Shepard, who married Elizabeth Bonesteel, was born Dec. 26, 1780, died March 8, 1833. Elizabeth Bonesteel was born Nov. 26, 1781, died May 1, 1832. Their children were: Paul, born March 25, 1799, married Mercy Osborne, born May 13, 1800, died October 7, 1876. Silas Eaton, born February 2, 1801, died in Troy, Pennsylvania, Nov. 12, 1877; he married Nancy Lake in 1821; had three children: Catherine, John Milton, and Alma Wright. Luke, born March 19, 1803, died April 20, 1837, married Jerusha Boynton; his children were Manly and Jackson. John, born March 28, 1805, died in 1826. Millicent, born Sept. 5, 1807, died in 1826. Stephen A., born Oct. 4, 1809, died in 1888. Betsey. Shepard, born in 1812, died in Bay City in 1876.Lysander Curtis, born April 6, 1814. Daniel Bonesteel, born April 19, 1816, died in Bay City in 1875. Samuel W., born Sept. 24, 1818. Rosina, born Nov. 7, 1821, died in 1886.
"Dr. Samuel W. Shepard, was born in New Berlin, Chenango (then Broome) County, New York. When one-year-old his parents moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he attended school from five until ten years of age; thence to Bradford County, attending school in Canton and Granville townships until fifteen years of age; thence traveled through Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, and returned in January, 1838, after nearly four years spent in the then "far west."
"He married Amanda, daughter of Scovil Bailey, of Granville, and settled on a farm; having studied medicine several years in various ways as Regular, Thomsonian, or Eclectic, he commenced the practice in a small neighborhood, and, in 1846, studying Homeopathy under his brother, Silas E. Shepard, M.D., who was in practice in Troy. His brother removing to New York City, Dr. Samuel took his practice in Western Bradford, and has continued with wonderful success until the present time; but now, being in his seventy-third year, he cares not to be burdened with the sick. In politics, he is always a Democrat. He has held all of the township offices, from school director to Justice of the peace, and was three years County auditors; in 1855 he was Democratic nominee for Representative, receiving every vote in Troy Township and borough, but a coalition of the Free-Soilers and Whigs defeated the Democrats. In religion he is a Disciple.
"Dr. S. W. Shepard and Amanda Bailey were joined in wedlock, September 2, 1838. She was a daughter of Scovil and Jerusha (Hail) Bailey, of Granville Township, formerly of Connecticut, and of this marriage were four children; the eldest, Jersuha E., born Oct. 27, 1841, married May 7, 1872, William J. Hillis, M.D., of Herrick, who died in 1888. She has three children-two daughters and one son. Lovinia, born Sept. 25, 1844, married H. M. Spalding, son of Andrew Spalding, of Canton; they have four children-one daughter and three sons. O'Meara, born in 1847, of Granville Centre, a farmer, has three sons, Earnest, Samuel, and George, of Granville Centre, and Philena, married to AM Wooster of Granville; they are now living in Troy. Mrs. Wooster has three sons, making thirteen grandchildren, all healthy and understanding the principles of homeopathy.
"The Doctor has but one brother now living, out of eleven children-eight sons and three daughters. The brother, Lysander Curtis Shepard, Esq., was born in April 1814, and never remembers of being confined to the house one day by sickness. He has lived in Fallbrook, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, about thirty-five years, except six years in Raleigh, North Carolina. When in Fallbrook he held the office of Justice of the peace the entire time while there. He has three sons and one daughter living, having lost two daughters. The Doctor's relatives are very numerous on the maternal and paternal sides, living in every State of the Union."
What follows here is a publication of meeting notes from a quarterly gathering of members of Churches of Christ of Bradford and Tioga Counties.
Dr. S. E. SHEPARD
"Resolutions concerning the death of Dr. Silas E. Shepard, adopted at Quarterly meeting
held at Leroy, Dec. 14-16, 1877.
"Whereas, In the course of God's Providence our venerable, long known and will beloved Brother Silas E. Shepard has been removed from among us by the hand of death; and Whereas, From his having been the first to establish in these counties the cause we love in common, as he loved it and labored through a long life for its advancement, thus
becoming the father in the gospel of individuals and churches. Therefore, be it
Resolved. 1st. That at this the first Quarterly gathering of the Churches of Christ of
Bradford and Tioga Counties since his departure, we express our united appreciation of
the man and of his labors, and our own peculiar sorrow that we shall see his face no
more.
(a), Of the man, recognizing in him at all times, and in his bearing toward all men, the
Christian gentleman, considerate, kind hearted, polite; at once superior in natural
endowment and in acquired wisdom, jet never asserting this superiority to the discomfort
of his less favored associates in the ministry or in private life.
(b) Of his labors, esteeming him very highly in love for his works sake; we lament his
loss as one in whom we had a sage counselor, an able advocate, and a representative man. 2nd, That as preachers, having enjoyed the communion of so worthy a fellow laborer, we will endeavor to emulate his example and to come up more fully in the standards of excellency we recognize in him.
3d, That we will endeavor by extra kindly bearing, counsel, and co-operation, so to
labor as not to let the cause suffer as first seemed unavoidable by this our so great loss;
and that we exhort the brethren ever where to unite with us in renewed diligence,
humility and prayerfulness to the realization of this most desired end.
4th, That, our lamented Brother having been admitted by those in the most educated
circles to be a peer in the scholarship, we ought to feel favored as a people that the
superior light of that scholarship has been diffused in our own communities during so
long a period of years.
5th That in so far as possible, we will endeavor to find compensation for our loss by
embalming him in our hearts, and committing to virtues of his life to the sacred keeping
of tender memory.
6th, That, we all, in this assembly of brethren and friends, unite our sincere sympathies
for the more deeply bereaved relatives and especially for her who was so long his faithful
partner in life, but now sits in lonely widowhood. & only waiting till the Master shall bid
her come to meet him who has gone before.
"Resolved further, That we recommend that these resolutions be entered upon the church
records of the two counties herein named. That a copy be forwarded to the widow of the
deceased/ and that copies be forwarded to the county papers and to the Christian Standard with request for publication, and with request that our other religious papers copy."
Irvin Wilson,
S. A. Rockwell,
I. R. Spencer,
B. H. Hayden,
Committee
Inscription
Defender of the Faith-Eph. 4:4-6-s/s/w Nancy
Gravesite Details
[PEN]
Family Members
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