Person:James Shepherd (1)

1880 census Barry Co. MO - Capps Creek HH 150

James W. Shepherd age 36 farmer NC NC NC

Ellen age 24 TN VA VA

Noul age 4 (son) TN NC TN

From the History of Newton, Lawrence, Barry & McDonald Counties, MO, 1888

James W. Shepherd, a well-to-do farmer and stock-raiser, of Barry County, Mo., was born in 1844 in Yancey County, N.C. and is a son of Joseph and Rachel (Wilson) Shepherd, both of whom were natives of North Carolina born in 1815. They were descendants of the first settlers of America, and were married in their native State. Joseph Shepherd is a farmer by vocation. In 1850 he removed his family to Northern Georgia, where his first wife died in 1863. Some time later he married Alsie Neel, a native of Georgia, and in 1868 came with his family to Barry County, Mo., where he purchased a farm, upon which he still resides.

Instead of coming to Missouri with his father, James W. Shepherd led somewhat of a wandering life, until his marriage in Tennessee, with Ellen V. Barcroft, a sister of Rev. John Barcroft, a presiding elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of the State of Mississippi. Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd have five children who are living: Noell, Edward, Leotie, Martha and Henry.

In 1881 Mr. Shepherd, with his family, came to Missouri, locating in Barry County, where he now resides on a nice farm of 275 acres, situated in the fertile valley of Flat Creek. In politics Mr. Shepherd is a Democrat, and in religiou he and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He is also a member of the A.F. & A.M.

1880 census Capps Creek, Barry, Missouri, United States

1900 census Jenkins, Barry, Missouri, United States - household of James Shepherd

1.   History of Newton, Lawrence, Barry and McDonald Counties, Missouri
   1049.

   Goodspeed Publishing, 1888

2.   1850 census Gilmer Co. GA.

   with parents

3.   1860 census Fannin Co. GA.

   with parents

4.   1880 census Capps Creek, Barry, Missouri.
5.   1900 census Jenkins, Barry, Missouri.