Dear Cousin Bob,
Your post was a splendid way to start the day. I am a descendant of one of
the other children of Horace and Patsy, namely John Nathaniel Shepard. I
know quite a lot about Horace Shepard -- indeed his portrait hangs in my
office. (On the other hand, one of the great brick walls in my research
is his Horace's father John Shepard -- not so with John Shepard's wife Mary
Shipp -- as in Harry Shipp Truman -- lots of material on her).
I recommend three pretty good places to start with Patsy and Horace.
First, if you put Patsy into
Ancestry.com, born 19 Sept. 1798 Woodford
County, Kentucky, died 21 January 1867, Knox County, Indiana, you will be
led to a number of family trees.
Second, a woman named Marsha L. Fuller ran a webpage for about a decade
called "The Harper Family Home Page", still available on the web, and wrote
a book called The Harper Family History 1713-1995, though the book is very
hard to find. I've never seen the book.
Third, a prominent Knox County genealogist named Eliza Haddon Brevoort
published a collection of her research about 1950, a book available in a
number of leading genealogy libraries, I recently acquired one through
Abebooks after years of searching.
Patsy is buried in the cemetery at Oaktown, Indiana, in the same plot as
Horace and the other two wives whom he also outlived.
Your mention of an obituary for Horace in the NYT is a mystery to me. I
searched the Times on the web and didn't find it. Any advice?
Best, Randy Shepard
Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard
Indiana Supreme Court
304 State House
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204
Ph: (317) 232-2550
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I am looking for information on Patsy Harper, possibly the daughter of
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Harper and Mary Elliot Bater, b. Ky 1798, d. between 1860 and 1880 probably
in Knox County. She married Horace B. Shepherd (c1797-1892) on 12 November,
1827 in Knox County. I am descended from their son, Theodore (c1834-b1900).
Bob
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