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www.childers-shepherd.org, 12 Mar 2011
John Shepherd + Dorothy Jones                          William Wilson + Sarah Shoate
                  |                                                         |
Grandison Shepherd       +         Serena Wilson
    1826  - 1862                                         1833 - aft 1909
  
Yancey Co NC                                                              Yancey Co NC
                                                |
        John William Shepherd (Margaret Austin, Elizabeth Austin), 1849-1925
        Cicero Descartes Shepherd (Margaret Naomi Moss), 1853 - 1934
        
Mitchell Wilson Shepherd (Clerissa Arrowood), 1854-1925
        
Leona J. Shepherd (Levi Wilson), 1857 - 1947
        Willard Vance Shepherd (Mary Jane Austin), 1861 - 1945
                               

Sources: U. S. Census records,  1870, 1880 1910, Yancey Co NC;
            NC Death Certificate, Willard V. Shepherd, 1945;
        Pauline Shepherd Chandler, "John and Dorothy (Jones) Shepherd," Heritage of Old Buncombe  
                     County
, Vol II, 1987 (Doris Cline Ward, Editor), p. 335;
              Stephen A. Shepherd, "Descendants of Elizabeth Shepherd";
             Ancestry.com's Hurst/Raby/Shepherd family tree citing Georgia Deaths 1919-1998);
              http://jimsgenealogy.net.