Source: Reedsburg Free Press -- October 10, 1901

SHEPARD.

Edmond T. SHEPARD son of Thompson SHEPARD, was born near Thornton, Cook Co.,
Ill., in 1840 and died with apoplexy of the brain, Sept. 26, 1901 near
Mellette, Spink Co., S.D.

When a small boy he came to Wisconsin with his parents and lived on a farm
near Reedsburg. In 1861 he married Lucy Davis and two children were born to
them -- Charles and Alta. In 1872 his wife died and later he married Hannah
NEWELL. Eight children were born to them all of whom are living -- Ernest,
Embor, Eddie, Harley, Frank, Archie, Eliza and Hugh.

He leaves a wife and nine children to mourn his loss. All are unmarried
except Alta, wife of Dr. F.A. SEEMANN, of Dubuque Iowa.

Besides he leaves brothers, Will and Eugene of Kansas, and James of the
Hills, S.Dak. Sisters, Mary Powers, of Sioux Valley, Minn., Frances
Farnsworth, of Seattle, Washington, and Eva Fischer of Colorado.

submitted by: Colleen Boose