WNC History Timeline

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www.childers-shepherd.org, 25 Apr 2010
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               Loranzy G. Leatherman          +                Nancy L. Shepherd
                     1875    -     1930            1896                1881    -     1964
            
      Macon Co NC   Jackson Co NC   Macon Co NC          Macon Co NC    Gaston Co NC        
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                                   Ada Mae Leatherman (Robert W. Williams, [?] Painter), 1898 - 1957
                                   Carl James Leatherman (Bertha Mae Grigg), 1900 - 1976
                                   Eva Elsie Leatherman (Taylor Shytle), 1908 - 1986
                                   Octavia Ella Leatherman (Gilmer G. Roberts), 1911 - 1958
                                   Fitchue Lee Leatherman (Helen L. Roberts), 1912 - 1978
                                   Woodrow Dewey Leatherman (Dorothy Pritchard, Elva Wooten), 1915 - 1994
                                   Robert Leatherman, 1918 - 1920
                                   Charles Edmund Leatherman (Celia M. Ragan), 1920 - 1989
                                   Ressie Mae Leatherman (Bledsoe), 1927 - 2007
                                   
Edwin Leatherman, 1921
                                   Ruth Leatherman, 1923
Sources: US Census 1920, Jackson Co NC;
          US Census 1930, Gaston Co NC;
          Ancestry.com's Hurst Raby Shepherd family tree;
          NC Death Certificate, L. G. Leatherman, 1930;
          NC Death Certificate, Ada Mae Painter, 1957.
[Daughter, possibly living             ]
[Son, possibly living                      ]