Walter wrote "Ancestry of Edward Carleton and Ellen Newton his Wife" 1978.
- Walter Lee Sheppard R.I.P.
Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., former contributing editor of the (U.S.)
National Genealogical Society's Quarterly, died recently while
undergoing treatment for cancer. He was a founding member of the
Board for the Certification of Genealogists and held many honors
and recognition. He was also a former president of his national
college fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi.
Mr. Sheppard wrote many genealogy articles and contributed to
several books, including "Passengers and Ships Prior to 1684,
Penn's Colony;" "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to
New England between 1623 and 1650" edited by Walter Lee Sheppard,
Jr., assisted by David Faris; "Feudal genealogy;" "The Ancestry
and Descendants of Thomas Stickney Evans and Sarah Ann Fifield,
His Wife, Both of Fryeburg, Maine; "Interpreting Genealogical
Records;" "The Magna Charta Surities, 1215" (originally written by
Frederick Lewis Weis, with additions and corrections by Walter Lee
Sheppard, Jr., with David Faris), and others.
Mr. Sheppard's undergraduate degree was from Cornell University.
By profession he was a chemical engineer. He is survived by a
stepson; his second wife, Bouie, died several years ago.
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