To Bob Page,
The Ross County Genealogical Society in Chillicothe OH has a copy
of Marsha Fuller's Harper book. If you send me what you want to find I will
do a lookup.
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From: <REPAGE(a)aol.com>
To: <inknox(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: [INKNOX] Harper; IN/KY
In a message dated 7/7/2008 10:10:59 AM Central Daylight Time,
rshepard(a)courts.state.in.us writes:
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?
Last things first. The article was posted in the NY Times on 14 pril,
1892.
Here is the link I found from Google (4th from the bottom);
_http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9A03EED71738E...
C1A9649C94639ED7CF&oref=slogin_
(
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9A03EED71738E2...)
You have sure given me plenty of leads. This line used to be my brick
wall.
My grandmother (Francis Cecelia Busch (1881-1934)) was illegitimate and,
as far
as I know, unrecognized by her father. I did finally find her baptism
record
in St. Johns Church in Vincennes and it stated her natural father was
Charles
Shepard. Then in the 1880 census I found her mother (Margaret/Gertrude
Busch
(1858-1938)) as a 20 year old servant in the household of Theodore
Shepard. His
son, Charlels Shepard, age 18, was also also living there. Margaret came
from
Hollen Germany in 1869 at the age of 11 with her mother and siblings.
This line has been difficult. Not like my Page line where I have my father
and four previous generations of Pages buried in Mount Calvary Cemetery in
Vincennes. The next time I am in Vincennes visiting my cousin Byron Page,
I will
have to look up the Shepherd gravesites and photograph them if they are
still
available.
Thanks again for your help. Now I have to check ABE books. I have used
them
before with great results.
I looked for The Harper Family History by Martha L. Fuller at my favorite
online book site (
_http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/_
(
http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/) )
but they either don't have it or it is not digitized yet.
Thanks again
Bob
Robert Evans Page
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