WNC Timeline

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www.childers-shepherd.org, 3 Feb 2010
John Wesley Shepherd + Matilda Riddle         Govan M. Blankenship + Sally Blankenship Ray
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Augustus Nathaniel Shepherd +  Sarah Eliza Blankenship
   1866 - 1939                  m. 1888, Yancey Co.       1869 - ?
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-Earnie Vivian Shepherd (Fritts), b. 1889, Yancey Co, NC
-Winifred Ernest Shepherd, b. 1890, Yancy Co, NC; died Sep 1909, drowned while
swimming at Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, TN, where he had just recently
enrolled.
-Wayne Raymond Shepherd, b. 1893, Yancey Co, NC; died 1920 in a mine accident in
Miami, AZ.
-Pearl Mildred Shepherd, b. 1895, Haywood Co, NC; date of death unknown.
-Govan Way Shepherd, b. 1898, Polk Co, TN; died within a month.
-Ruby Lucille Shepherd, stillborn 1899, Georgia.
-Lake Denver Shepherd, b. 1906, Polk Co, TN; d. 1974.
-Eleanor Ruth Shepherd, b. 1909, Polk Co, TN.
-Frances Esther Shepherd, b. 1911, Polk Co, TN.

( - Names and dates provided by Frances Esther Shepherd in a letter to Inez Shepherd Childers, May,
1977.)