Shepherd, Henry

Born: 1807-12-03 Virginia

Died: 1850-XX-XX Sacramento, California

Flourished:

Shepherd left his native state in 1830 and moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, where he married Margaret Peaff, with whom he had one child. In 1838, Shepherd and his family moved to Sangamon County, Illinois. He left Illinois for California in 1849, and died there in the autumn of 1850.

John Carroll Power and S. A. Power, History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois (Springfield, IL: Edwin A. Wilson, 1876), 648.