CSA, Co. K, 49th North Carolina Infantry.
Mayor of Grover, North Carolina.
Sheppard is the correct family spelling, but I know his records have it spelled lots of different ways.
* * * * *
Name: William R Shepherd
Residence: Gaston County, North Carolina
Occupation: Farmer
Age at enlistment: 16
Enlistment Date: 15 Mar 1862
Rank at enlistment: Private
Enlistment Place: Lincoln County, NC
State Served: North Carolina
Survived the War?: Yes
Service Record: Enlisted in Company K, North Carolina 49th Infantry Regiment on 21 Apr 1862.
Mustered out on 10 Jul 1862.
Birth Date: abt 1846
Sources: North Carolina Troops 1861-65, A Roster
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From Confederate War Records
CONFEDERATE
S 49 NC
William R. Sheppard
Pvt. Co. K (Pleasent Home Guards), 49th Reg't, North Carolina Infantry State Troops).
Appears on Company Muster-in and Descriptive Roll of the organization named above, from Lincoln County, Roll dated
Camp Waugaw(spelling?), Apl. 21m 1862
Mustered into service of State of North Carolina, to date: Apl. 21, 1862.
Description:
Where Born: Rockingham, N.C.
Age 16 years, occupation: Farmer
Height 5 feet 9 inches.
Enrolled for Active Service:
When: March 15, 186__.
Where: Lincoln
By Whom: Peter __? Baxter
Oath of Allegiance to State of North Carolina
Signature: William R. Shepherd
Mustered into service:
When:
Where:
By Whom:
Period: 3 years or during the war
Remarks:
* * * * *
CONFEDERATE
S 49 NC
Wm." Shepherd
Pvt. Co. K (Pleasent Home Guards), 49th Reg't, North Carolina Infantry State Troops).
Appears on a
Roll of Honor *
of the organization named above.
County: Gaston
Date of entrance into service: Mch. 16, 1862.
Age: Vol. or Conscript:
Died or Discharged and when:
Discharged Aug. 1, 1862.
* Compiled in the Office of the Adjutant General of the State of North Carolina in accordance with resolutions ratifies by the General Assembly of that State on December 20, 1862.
This card was amrde from the original reocrd borrowed from the Adjutant General of North Carolina. M.S. 1043147.
J Jackson: Copyist.
* * *
CONFEDERATE
S 49 NC
W. R. Shepherd
Pvt. Co. K (Pleasent Home Guards), 49th Reg't, North Carolina Infantry State Troops).
Appears on a consolidated
Report of Sick and Wounded
of Medical Director and Inspector,
Various Hospitals in Virginia,
for the month of July, 1862.
Date of Discharge from service: July 10, 1862
Remarks: Under Age
* * * *
CONFEDERATE
S 49 NC
W. R. Shepherd
Pvt. Co. K (Pleasent Home Guards), 49th Reg't, North Carolina Infantry State Troops).
Appears on a
Report of Sick and Wounded
in 2d North Carolina Hospital
at Petersburg, Va.
for the month of July, 1862.
Discharges on Surgeon't Certificate and Deaths:
Disease: Age 17
Date of Discharge from Service: July 10, 1862.
* * * *
He was discharge from the Confederate service after being sent to the 2nd North Carolina Hospital in Petersburg, Virginia.
He married Amanda Adeline Whisonant, the daughter of William Whisonant and Namina Whisonant of York Co., S.C. William Whisonant served in Co. G, 4th Regiment, South Carolina Troops and was wounded during the war.
William Sheppard and Addie had six shildren before her death in 1888. In 1890, William married Dovey June Beam Royster. William served as the third mayor of Grover, North Carolina in 1894.
* * * *
Children
◦Luther Sheppard
◦Samuel Sheppard b. c 1876
◦Mattie Whisonant Sheppard b. 6 Dec 1879, d. 30 May 1938
◦William Fulton Sheppard b. 2 Mar 1882, d. 3 Jan 1938
◦Grover Cleveland Sheppard b. 29 Sep 1884, d. 5 Oct 1940
*** See also http://www.raymondwhisnant.com/p26.htm#i1291
From the 1880 Census
Self William Sheppard M 34 North Carolina, United States
Wife Adaline Sheppard F 28 South Carolina, United States
Son Samuel Sheppard M 4 North Carolina, United States
Other Ulah Sheppard F 2 North Carolina, United States
Other Mattie Sheppard F 0 North Carolina, United States
Other
Neg. Whisnant F 25 South Carolina, United States
Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MC6J-LKS : accessed 18 Mar 2013), Samuel Sheppard in entry for William Sheppard, 1880.
* * * *
Samuel and Mary "Polly" Williams Sheppard were with a caravan heading west from Roxboro, N.C. (near the Virigina border). When they reached Midway, a community in Cleveland Co., N.C. (now Kings Mtn. & Shelby on Hwy. 74), sickness struck and they settled there. Some of the relatives continued on to Texas. The Senator Sheppard that the airforce base in Texas is named for is belived to be some of this group. Samuel and Polly had the following children:ThomasWilliam R. CicroeDockJohnJane (twin to John), she died very young.son of William Sheppard and Sally Oliver. The grandson of James Oliver and Susanna Lemons.
* * * *
His
2nd wives death record:
Dovie Jane Royster
North Carolina Deaths
Name Dovie Jane Royster
Event Type Death
Event Date 11 Apr 1936
Event Place Grover, Cleveland, North Carolina
Birth Year (Estimated) 1865
Burial Date 12 Apr 1936
Cemetery Bethleham
Gender Female
Age 71
Marital Status Widowed
Race white
Birthplace N.C.
Father's Name S.M. Beam
Father's Birthplace N.C.
Mother's Name Nancy Murphy
Mother's Birthplace N.C.
Spouse's Name D.J. Royster
Additional Relatives X
* * *
North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979
Name: W R Sheppard
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 6 May 1890
Event Place: Cleveland, North Carolina, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 44
Birth Year (Estimated): 1846
Father's Name: Saml Sheppard
Mother's Name: Mary Sheppard
Spouse's Name: Dovey Jane Royster
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Age: 26
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1864
Spouse's Father's Name: S M Beam
Spouse's Mother's Name: Nancy Beam
* * * *
After his death, the appointed guardian for his minor children was J. A. Anthony of Cleveland Co., possibly Find A Grave Memorial 8849246.
* * * *
His family is mentioned in the article below:
Minnesota Girl Feted by Blacksburg Kin, Friends. (By W. L. Gilbert.) Blacksburg, March 21. A large and enthusiastic meeting was held at the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night. Present were many leading citizens of the town, including C. M. Whisonant and the entire town council. The leading address of the evening was made by Sidney M. Edel-stein, of the firm of S. M. Edelstein & Company, Industrial Engineers, of Union, whose subject concerned the securing of new industries for Blacksburg. Accompanying Mr. Edelstein were his engineers, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Scott, all of whom snoke in hip"hfst. nraisp nf thf natural advantages and progress of Blacksburg and community. In this con nection Mr. Edelstein prophesied that even though a wall were built around it Blacksburg witnin fi'.e years would more than double its manufacturing enterprises in addition to what it has now, since the railroad rates are cheaper here than other nearby towns, the water supply is abundant and the advantage is had of two power transmission lines through the town, besides the living conditions here are most favorable and with plenty of cheap native labor. Contractors are installing the additional beacon gas light, of the bouy blinker type, on Whitaker mountain overlooking Blacksburg landing field. This light is intended as a safeguard to prevent airplanes from running j into the mountain in cloudy or foggy! ,0tr.0r th rt hff weather. This completes the last link of the Blacksburg landing field which is now ready for service, which it is said will begin April 1. v Miss Luella Sheppard, who has been visiting Mrs. McK. Albergotti and Mrs. Sam Lattimore on Carolina street for several months, returned Tuesday to her home in Mankato, Minn. Miss Sheppard has been the inspiration of several social affairs given here this season. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Tilden Sheppard, . of Mankato, and is the niece of Mrs. Albergotti. Mr. Sheppard was born and reared near Blacksburg, having left here while a boy and remuining away for thirty years before his people heard of him. He is familiarly known as Tilden Sheppard, and has many friends in this section. Miss Sheppard is so well pleased with her newly discovered relatives and with the people and the place that she contemplates visiting here again next winter and hopes to innuence ner iatner ana mother to return to Blacksburg and make it their future home. She met and made a host of friends here who will miss her very much, and look forward with pleasure to her return. Mis3 Sheppard is a typical western girl, in that she,' is full of life and ambition, and contemplates returning here to finish her education and training, being only 19 years of age.
Clipped from The Gaffney Ledger, 22 Mar 1928, Thu, Page 1
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Mayor of Grover, North Carolina.
Sheppard is the correct family spelling, but I know his records have it spelled lots of different ways.
* * * * *
Name: William R Shepherd
Residence: Gaston County, North Carolina
Occupation: Farmer
Age at enlistment: 16
Enlistment Date: 15 Mar 1862
Rank at enlistment: Private
Enlistment Place: Lincoln County, NC
State Served: North Carolina
Survived the War?: Yes
Service Record: Enlisted in Company K, North Carolina 49th Infantry Regiment on 21 Apr 1862.
Mustered out on 10 Jul 1862.
Birth Date: abt 1846
Sources: North Carolina Troops 1861-65, A Roster
* * * *
From Confederate War Records
CONFEDERATE
S 49 NC
William R. Sheppard
Pvt. Co. K (Pleasent Home Guards), 49th Reg't, North Carolina Infantry State Troops).
Appears on Company Muster-in and Descriptive Roll of the organization named above, from Lincoln County, Roll dated
Camp Waugaw(spelling?), Apl. 21m 1862
Mustered into service of State of North Carolina, to date: Apl. 21, 1862.
Description:
Where Born: Rockingham, N.C.
Age 16 years, occupation: Farmer
Height 5 feet 9 inches.
Enrolled for Active Service:
When: March 15, 186__.
Where: Lincoln
By Whom: Peter __? Baxter
Oath of Allegiance to State of North Carolina
Signature: William R. Shepherd
Mustered into service:
When:
Where:
By Whom:
Period: 3 years or during the war
Remarks:
* * * * *
CONFEDERATE
S 49 NC
Wm." Shepherd
Pvt. Co. K (Pleasent Home Guards), 49th Reg't, North Carolina Infantry State Troops).
Appears on a
Roll of Honor *
of the organization named above.
County: Gaston
Date of entrance into service: Mch. 16, 1862.
Age: Vol. or Conscript:
Died or Discharged and when:
Discharged Aug. 1, 1862.
* Compiled in the Office of the Adjutant General of the State of North Carolina in accordance with resolutions ratifies by the General Assembly of that State on December 20, 1862.
This card was amrde from the original reocrd borrowed from the Adjutant General of North Carolina. M.S. 1043147.
J Jackson: Copyist.
* * *
CONFEDERATE
S 49 NC
W. R. Shepherd
Pvt. Co. K (Pleasent Home Guards), 49th Reg't, North Carolina Infantry State Troops).
Appears on a consolidated
Report of Sick and Wounded
of Medical Director and Inspector,
Various Hospitals in Virginia,
for the month of July, 1862.
Date of Discharge from service: July 10, 1862
Remarks: Under Age
* * * *
CONFEDERATE
S 49 NC
W. R. Shepherd
Pvt. Co. K (Pleasent Home Guards), 49th Reg't, North Carolina Infantry State Troops).
Appears on a
Report of Sick and Wounded
in 2d North Carolina Hospital
at Petersburg, Va.
for the month of July, 1862.
Discharges on Surgeon't Certificate and Deaths:
Disease: Age 17
Date of Discharge from Service: July 10, 1862.
* * * *
He was discharge from the Confederate service after being sent to the 2nd North Carolina Hospital in Petersburg, Virginia.
He married Amanda Adeline Whisonant, the daughter of William Whisonant and Namina Whisonant of York Co., S.C. William Whisonant served in Co. G, 4th Regiment, South Carolina Troops and was wounded during the war.
William Sheppard and Addie had six shildren before her death in 1888. In 1890, William married Dovey June Beam Royster. William served as the third mayor of Grover, North Carolina in 1894.
* * * *
Children
◦Luther Sheppard
◦Samuel Sheppard b. c 1876
◦Mattie Whisonant Sheppard b. 6 Dec 1879, d. 30 May 1938
◦William Fulton Sheppard b. 2 Mar 1882, d. 3 Jan 1938
◦Grover Cleveland Sheppard b. 29 Sep 1884, d. 5 Oct 1940
*** See also http://www.raymondwhisnant.com/p26.htm#i1291
From the 1880 Census
Self William Sheppard M 34 North Carolina, United States
Wife Adaline Sheppard F 28 South Carolina, United States
Son Samuel Sheppard M 4 North Carolina, United States
Other Ulah Sheppard F 2 North Carolina, United States
Other Mattie Sheppard F 0 North Carolina, United States
Other
Neg. Whisnant F 25 South Carolina, United States
Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MC6J-LKS : accessed 18 Mar 2013), Samuel Sheppard in entry for William Sheppard, 1880.
* * * *
Samuel and Mary "Polly" Williams Sheppard were with a caravan heading west from Roxboro, N.C. (near the Virigina border). When they reached Midway, a community in Cleveland Co., N.C. (now Kings Mtn. & Shelby on Hwy. 74), sickness struck and they settled there. Some of the relatives continued on to Texas. The Senator Sheppard that the airforce base in Texas is named for is belived to be some of this group. Samuel and Polly had the following children:ThomasWilliam R. CicroeDockJohnJane (twin to John), she died very young.son of William Sheppard and Sally Oliver. The grandson of James Oliver and Susanna Lemons.
* * * *
His
2nd wives death record:
Dovie Jane Royster
North Carolina Deaths
Name Dovie Jane Royster
Event Type Death
Event Date 11 Apr 1936
Event Place Grover, Cleveland, North Carolina
Birth Year (Estimated) 1865
Burial Date 12 Apr 1936
Cemetery Bethleham
Gender Female
Age 71
Marital Status Widowed
Race white
Birthplace N.C.
Father's Name S.M. Beam
Father's Birthplace N.C.
Mother's Name Nancy Murphy
Mother's Birthplace N.C.
Spouse's Name D.J. Royster
Additional Relatives X
* * *
North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979
Name: W R Sheppard
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 6 May 1890
Event Place: Cleveland, North Carolina, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 44
Birth Year (Estimated): 1846
Father's Name: Saml Sheppard
Mother's Name: Mary Sheppard
Spouse's Name: Dovey Jane Royster
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Age: 26
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1864
Spouse's Father's Name: S M Beam
Spouse's Mother's Name: Nancy Beam
* * * *
After his death, the appointed guardian for his minor children was J. A. Anthony of Cleveland Co., possibly Find A Grave Memorial 8849246.
* * * *
His family is mentioned in the article below:
Minnesota Girl Feted by Blacksburg Kin, Friends. (By W. L. Gilbert.) Blacksburg, March 21. A large and enthusiastic meeting was held at the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night. Present were many leading citizens of the town, including C. M. Whisonant and the entire town council. The leading address of the evening was made by Sidney M. Edel-stein, of the firm of S. M. Edelstein & Company, Industrial Engineers, of Union, whose subject concerned the securing of new industries for Blacksburg. Accompanying Mr. Edelstein were his engineers, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Scott, all of whom snoke in hip"hfst. nraisp nf thf natural advantages and progress of Blacksburg and community. In this con nection Mr. Edelstein prophesied that even though a wall were built around it Blacksburg witnin fi'.e years would more than double its manufacturing enterprises in addition to what it has now, since the railroad rates are cheaper here than other nearby towns, the water supply is abundant and the advantage is had of two power transmission lines through the town, besides the living conditions here are most favorable and with plenty of cheap native labor. Contractors are installing the additional beacon gas light, of the bouy blinker type, on Whitaker mountain overlooking Blacksburg landing field. This light is intended as a safeguard to prevent airplanes from running j into the mountain in cloudy or foggy! ,0tr.0r th rt hff weather. This completes the last link of the Blacksburg landing field which is now ready for service, which it is said will begin April 1. v Miss Luella Sheppard, who has been visiting Mrs. McK. Albergotti and Mrs. Sam Lattimore on Carolina street for several months, returned Tuesday to her home in Mankato, Minn. Miss Sheppard has been the inspiration of several social affairs given here this season. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Tilden Sheppard, . of Mankato, and is the niece of Mrs. Albergotti. Mr. Sheppard was born and reared near Blacksburg, having left here while a boy and remuining away for thirty years before his people heard of him. He is familiarly known as Tilden Sheppard, and has many friends in this section. Miss Sheppard is so well pleased with her newly discovered relatives and with the people and the place that she contemplates visiting here again next winter and hopes to innuence ner iatner ana mother to return to Blacksburg and make it their future home. She met and made a host of friends here who will miss her very much, and look forward with pleasure to her return. Mis3 Sheppard is a typical western girl, in that she,' is full of life and ambition, and contemplates returning here to finish her education and training, being only 19 years of age.
Clipped from The Gaffney Ledger, 22 Mar 1928, Thu, Page 1
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CSA, Co. K, 49th North Carolina Infantry.
Mayor of Grover, North Carolina.
Sheppard is the correct family spelling, but I know his records have it spelled lots of different ways.
* * * * *
Name: William R Shepherd
Residence: Gaston County, North Carolina
Occupation: Farmer
Age at enlistment: 16
Enlistment Date: 15 Mar 1862
Rank at enlistment: Private
Enlistment Place: Lincoln County, NC
State Served: North Carolina
Survived the War?: Yes
Service Record: Enlisted in Company K, North Carolina 49th Infantry Regiment on 21 Apr 1862.
Mustered out on 10 Jul 1862.
Birth Date: abt 1846
Sources: North Carolina Troops 1861-65, A Roster
* * * *
From Confederate War Records
CONFEDERATE
S 49 NC
William R. Sheppard
Pvt. Co. K (Pleasent Home Guards), 49th Reg't, North Carolina Infantry State Troops).
Appears on Company Muster-in and Descriptive Roll of the organization named above, from Lincoln County, Roll dated
Camp Waugaw(spelling?), Apl. 21m 1862
Mustered into service of State of North Carolina, to date: Apl. 21, 1862.
Description:
Where Born: Rockingham, N.C.
Age 16 years, occupation: Farmer
Height 5 feet 9 inches.
Enrolled for Active Service:
When: March 15, 186__.
Where: Lincoln
By Whom: Peter __? Baxter
Oath of Allegiance to State of North Carolina
Signature: William R. Shepherd
Mustered into service:
When:
Where:
By Whom:
Period: 3 years or during the war
Remarks:
* * * * *
CONFEDERATE
S 49 NC
Wm." Shepherd
Pvt. Co. K (Pleasent Home Guards), 49th Reg't, North Carolina Infantry State Troops).
Appears on a
Roll of Honor *
of the organization named above.
County: Gaston
Date of entrance into service: Mch. 16, 1862.
Age: Vol. or Conscript:
Died or Discharged and when:
Discharged Aug. 1, 1862.
* Compiled in the Office of the Adjutant General of the State of North Carolina in accordance with resolutions ratifies by the General Assembly of that State on December 20, 1862.
This card was amrde from the original reocrd borrowed from the Adjutant General of North Carolina. M.S. 1043147.
J Jackson: Copyist.
* * *
CONFEDERATE
S 49 NC
W. R. Shepherd
Pvt. Co. K (Pleasent Home Guards), 49th Reg't, North Carolina Infantry State Troops).
Appears on a consolidated
Report of Sick and Wounded
of Medical Director and Inspector,
Various Hospitals in Virginia,
for the month of July, 1862.
Date of Discharge from service: July 10, 1862
Remarks: Under Age
* * * *
CONFEDERATE
S 49 NC
W. R. Shepherd
Pvt. Co. K (Pleasent Home Guards), 49th Reg't, North Carolina Infantry State Troops).
Appears on a
Report of Sick and Wounded
in 2d North Carolina Hospital
at Petersburg, Va.
for the month of July, 1862.
Discharges on Surgeon't Certificate and Deaths:
Disease: Age 17
Date of Discharge from Service: July 10, 1862.
* * * *
He was discharge from the Confederate service after being sent to the 2nd North Carolina Hospital in Petersburg, Virginia.
He married Amanda Adeline Whisonant, the daughter of William Whisonant and Namina Whisonant of York Co., S.C. William Whisonant served in Co. G, 4th Regiment, South Carolina Troops and was wounded during the war.
William Sheppard and Addie had six shildren before her death in 1888. In 1890, William married Dovey June Beam Royster. William served as the third mayor of Grover, North Carolina in 1894.
* * * *
Children
◦Luther Sheppard
◦Samuel Sheppard b. c 1876
◦Mattie Whisonant Sheppard b. 6 Dec 1879, d. 30 May 1938
◦William Fulton Sheppard b. 2 Mar 1882, d. 3 Jan 1938
◦Grover Cleveland Sheppard b. 29 Sep 1884, d. 5 Oct 1940
*** See also http://www.raymondwhisnant.com/p26.htm#i1291
From the 1880 Census
Self William Sheppard M 34 North Carolina, United States
Wife Adaline Sheppard F 28 South Carolina, United States
Son Samuel Sheppard M 4 North Carolina, United States
Other Ulah Sheppard F 2 North Carolina, United States
Other Mattie Sheppard F 0 North Carolina, United States
Other
Neg. Whisnant F 25 South Carolina, United States
Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MC6J-LKS : accessed 18 Mar 2013), Samuel Sheppard in entry for William Sheppard, 1880.
* * * *
Samuel and Mary "Polly" Williams Sheppard were with a caravan heading west from Roxboro, N.C. (near the Virigina border). When they reached Midway, a community in Cleveland Co., N.C. (now Kings Mtn. & Shelby on Hwy. 74), sickness struck and they settled there. Some of the relatives continued on to Texas. The Senator Sheppard that the airforce base in Texas is named for is belived to be some of this group. Samuel and Polly had the following children:ThomasWilliam R. CicroeDockJohnJane (twin to John), she died very young.son of William Sheppard and Sally Oliver. The grandson of James Oliver and Susanna Lemons.
* * * *
His
2nd wives death record:
Dovie Jane Royster
North Carolina Deaths
Name Dovie Jane Royster
Event Type Death
Event Date 11 Apr 1936
Event Place Grover, Cleveland, North Carolina
Birth Year (Estimated) 1865
Burial Date 12 Apr 1936
Cemetery Bethleham
Gender Female
Age 71
Marital Status Widowed
Race white
Birthplace N.C.
Father's Name S.M. Beam
Father's Birthplace N.C.
Mother's Name Nancy Murphy
Mother's Birthplace N.C.
Spouse's Name D.J. Royster
Additional Relatives X
* * *
North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979
Name: W R Sheppard
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 6 May 1890
Event Place: Cleveland, North Carolina, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 44
Birth Year (Estimated): 1846
Father's Name: Saml Sheppard
Mother's Name: Mary Sheppard
Spouse's Name: Dovey Jane Royster
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Age: 26
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1864
Spouse's Father's Name: S M Beam
Spouse's Mother's Name: Nancy Beam
* * * *
After his death, the appointed guardian for his minor children was J. A. Anthony of Cleveland Co., possibly Find A Grave Memorial 8849246.
* * * *
His family is mentioned in the article below:
Minnesota Girl Feted by Blacksburg Kin, Friends. (By W. L. Gilbert.) Blacksburg, March 21. A large and enthusiastic meeting was held at the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night. Present were many leading citizens of the town, including C. M. Whisonant and the entire town council. The leading address of the evening was made by Sidney M. Edel-stein, of the firm of S. M. Edelstein & Company, Industrial Engineers, of Union, whose subject concerned the securing of new industries for Blacksburg. Accompanying Mr. Edelstein were his engineers, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Scott, all of whom snoke in hip"hfst. nraisp nf thf natural advantages and progress of Blacksburg and community. In this con nection Mr. Edelstein prophesied that even though a wall were built around it Blacksburg witnin fi'.e years would more than double its manufacturing enterprises in addition to what it has now, since the railroad rates are cheaper here than other nearby towns, the water supply is abundant and the advantage is had of two power transmission lines through the town, besides the living conditions here are most favorable and with plenty of cheap native labor. Contractors are installing the additional beacon gas light, of the bouy blinker type, on Whitaker mountain overlooking Blacksburg landing field. This light is intended as a safeguard to prevent airplanes from running j into the mountain in cloudy or foggy! ,0tr.0r th rt hff weather. This completes the last link of the Blacksburg landing field which is now ready for service, which it is said will begin April 1. v Miss Luella Sheppard, who has been visiting Mrs. McK. Albergotti and Mrs. Sam Lattimore on Carolina street for several months, returned Tuesday to her home in Mankato, Minn. Miss Sheppard has been the inspiration of several social affairs given here this season. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Tilden Sheppard, . of Mankato, and is the niece of Mrs. Albergotti. Mr. Sheppard was born and reared near Blacksburg, having left here while a boy and remuining away for thirty years before his people heard of him. He is familiarly known as Tilden Sheppard, and has many friends in this section. Miss Sheppard is so well pleased with her newly discovered relatives and with the people and the place that she contemplates visiting here again next winter and hopes to innuence ner iatner ana mother to return to Blacksburg and make it their future home. She met and made a host of friends here who will miss her very much, and look forward with pleasure to her return. Mis3 Sheppard is a typical western girl, in that she,' is full of life and ambition, and contemplates returning here to finish her education and training, being only 19 years of age.
Clipped from The Gaffney Ledger, 22 Mar 1928, Thu, Page 1
* * * *
Mayor of Grover, North Carolina.
Sheppard is the correct family spelling, but I know his records have it spelled lots of different ways.
* * * * *
Name: William R Shepherd
Residence: Gaston County, North Carolina
Occupation: Farmer
Age at enlistment: 16
Enlistment Date: 15 Mar 1862
Rank at enlistment: Private
Enlistment Place: Lincoln County, NC
State Served: North Carolina
Survived the War?: Yes
Service Record: Enlisted in Company K, North Carolina 49th Infantry Regiment on 21 Apr 1862.
Mustered out on 10 Jul 1862.
Birth Date: abt 1846
Sources: North Carolina Troops 1861-65, A Roster
* * * *
From Confederate War Records
CONFEDERATE
S 49 NC
William R. Sheppard
Pvt. Co. K (Pleasent Home Guards), 49th Reg't, North Carolina Infantry State Troops).
Appears on Company Muster-in and Descriptive Roll of the organization named above, from Lincoln County, Roll dated
Camp Waugaw(spelling?), Apl. 21m 1862
Mustered into service of State of North Carolina, to date: Apl. 21, 1862.
Description:
Where Born: Rockingham, N.C.
Age 16 years, occupation: Farmer
Height 5 feet 9 inches.
Enrolled for Active Service:
When: March 15, 186__.
Where: Lincoln
By Whom: Peter __? Baxter
Oath of Allegiance to State of North Carolina
Signature: William R. Shepherd
Mustered into service:
When:
Where:
By Whom:
Period: 3 years or during the war
Remarks:
* * * * *
CONFEDERATE
S 49 NC
Wm." Shepherd
Pvt. Co. K (Pleasent Home Guards), 49th Reg't, North Carolina Infantry State Troops).
Appears on a
Roll of Honor *
of the organization named above.
County: Gaston
Date of entrance into service: Mch. 16, 1862.
Age: Vol. or Conscript:
Died or Discharged and when:
Discharged Aug. 1, 1862.
* Compiled in the Office of the Adjutant General of the State of North Carolina in accordance with resolutions ratifies by the General Assembly of that State on December 20, 1862.
This card was amrde from the original reocrd borrowed from the Adjutant General of North Carolina. M.S. 1043147.
J Jackson: Copyist.
* * *
CONFEDERATE
S 49 NC
W. R. Shepherd
Pvt. Co. K (Pleasent Home Guards), 49th Reg't, North Carolina Infantry State Troops).
Appears on a consolidated
Report of Sick and Wounded
of Medical Director and Inspector,
Various Hospitals in Virginia,
for the month of July, 1862.
Date of Discharge from service: July 10, 1862
Remarks: Under Age
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CONFEDERATE
S 49 NC
W. R. Shepherd
Pvt. Co. K (Pleasent Home Guards), 49th Reg't, North Carolina Infantry State Troops).
Appears on a
Report of Sick and Wounded
in 2d North Carolina Hospital
at Petersburg, Va.
for the month of July, 1862.
Discharges on Surgeon't Certificate and Deaths:
Disease: Age 17
Date of Discharge from Service: July 10, 1862.
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He was discharge from the Confederate service after being sent to the 2nd North Carolina Hospital in Petersburg, Virginia.
He married Amanda Adeline Whisonant, the daughter of William Whisonant and Namina Whisonant of York Co., S.C. William Whisonant served in Co. G, 4th Regiment, South Carolina Troops and was wounded during the war.
William Sheppard and Addie had six shildren before her death in 1888. In 1890, William married Dovey June Beam Royster. William served as the third mayor of Grover, North Carolina in 1894.
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Children
◦Luther Sheppard
◦Samuel Sheppard b. c 1876
◦Mattie Whisonant Sheppard b. 6 Dec 1879, d. 30 May 1938
◦William Fulton Sheppard b. 2 Mar 1882, d. 3 Jan 1938
◦Grover Cleveland Sheppard b. 29 Sep 1884, d. 5 Oct 1940
*** See also http://www.raymondwhisnant.com/p26.htm#i1291
From the 1880 Census
Self William Sheppard M 34 North Carolina, United States
Wife Adaline Sheppard F 28 South Carolina, United States
Son Samuel Sheppard M 4 North Carolina, United States
Other Ulah Sheppard F 2 North Carolina, United States
Other Mattie Sheppard F 0 North Carolina, United States
Other
Neg. Whisnant F 25 South Carolina, United States
Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MC6J-LKS : accessed 18 Mar 2013), Samuel Sheppard in entry for William Sheppard, 1880.
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Samuel and Mary "Polly" Williams Sheppard were with a caravan heading west from Roxboro, N.C. (near the Virigina border). When they reached Midway, a community in Cleveland Co., N.C. (now Kings Mtn. & Shelby on Hwy. 74), sickness struck and they settled there. Some of the relatives continued on to Texas. The Senator Sheppard that the airforce base in Texas is named for is belived to be some of this group. Samuel and Polly had the following children:ThomasWilliam R. CicroeDockJohnJane (twin to John), she died very young.son of William Sheppard and Sally Oliver. The grandson of James Oliver and Susanna Lemons.
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His
2nd wives death record:
Dovie Jane Royster
North Carolina Deaths
Name Dovie Jane Royster
Event Type Death
Event Date 11 Apr 1936
Event Place Grover, Cleveland, North Carolina
Birth Year (Estimated) 1865
Burial Date 12 Apr 1936
Cemetery Bethleham
Gender Female
Age 71
Marital Status Widowed
Race white
Birthplace N.C.
Father's Name S.M. Beam
Father's Birthplace N.C.
Mother's Name Nancy Murphy
Mother's Birthplace N.C.
Spouse's Name D.J. Royster
Additional Relatives X
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North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979
Name: W R Sheppard
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 6 May 1890
Event Place: Cleveland, North Carolina, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 44
Birth Year (Estimated): 1846
Father's Name: Saml Sheppard
Mother's Name: Mary Sheppard
Spouse's Name: Dovey Jane Royster
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Age: 26
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1864
Spouse's Father's Name: S M Beam
Spouse's Mother's Name: Nancy Beam
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After his death, the appointed guardian for his minor children was J. A. Anthony of Cleveland Co., possibly Find A Grave Memorial 8849246.
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His family is mentioned in the article below:
Minnesota Girl Feted by Blacksburg Kin, Friends. (By W. L. Gilbert.) Blacksburg, March 21. A large and enthusiastic meeting was held at the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night. Present were many leading citizens of the town, including C. M. Whisonant and the entire town council. The leading address of the evening was made by Sidney M. Edel-stein, of the firm of S. M. Edelstein & Company, Industrial Engineers, of Union, whose subject concerned the securing of new industries for Blacksburg. Accompanying Mr. Edelstein were his engineers, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Scott, all of whom snoke in hip"hfst. nraisp nf thf natural advantages and progress of Blacksburg and community. In this con nection Mr. Edelstein prophesied that even though a wall were built around it Blacksburg witnin fi'.e years would more than double its manufacturing enterprises in addition to what it has now, since the railroad rates are cheaper here than other nearby towns, the water supply is abundant and the advantage is had of two power transmission lines through the town, besides the living conditions here are most favorable and with plenty of cheap native labor. Contractors are installing the additional beacon gas light, of the bouy blinker type, on Whitaker mountain overlooking Blacksburg landing field. This light is intended as a safeguard to prevent airplanes from running j into the mountain in cloudy or foggy! ,0tr.0r th rt hff weather. This completes the last link of the Blacksburg landing field which is now ready for service, which it is said will begin April 1. v Miss Luella Sheppard, who has been visiting Mrs. McK. Albergotti and Mrs. Sam Lattimore on Carolina street for several months, returned Tuesday to her home in Mankato, Minn. Miss Sheppard has been the inspiration of several social affairs given here this season. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Tilden Sheppard, . of Mankato, and is the niece of Mrs. Albergotti. Mr. Sheppard was born and reared near Blacksburg, having left here while a boy and remuining away for thirty years before his people heard of him. He is familiarly known as Tilden Sheppard, and has many friends in this section. Miss Sheppard is so well pleased with her newly discovered relatives and with the people and the place that she contemplates visiting here again next winter and hopes to innuence ner iatner ana mother to return to Blacksburg and make it their future home. She met and made a host of friends here who will miss her very much, and look forward with pleasure to her return. Mis3 Sheppard is a typical western girl, in that she,' is full of life and ambition, and contemplates returning here to finish her education and training, being only 19 years of age.
Clipped from The Gaffney Ledger, 22 Mar 1928, Thu, Page 1
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Inscription
Pvt
William R. Shepherd
CO K
49th NC INF
CSA
DEC 1844
JAN 1901
Gravesite Details
Surname spelled Shepherd on headstone and service record. Spelled Shepard on cemetery records.
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