age 57y 4m 22d Where born: Canterbury - Merrimack Co NH Where died: Linn (Orio) Son of: Col Morrill Shepard (ca 1764 NH-23 Oct 1844 NH s/of James Shepard & Abigail Morrill) & Elizabeth Hancock (ca 1764 1838-06-21 d/of Joseph Hancock & Abigail Keyser) Married: 23 Feb 1829/30 Boscawen - Merrimack Co NH Eliza Jane Gerrish*; studied at Boscawen Academy - Canterbury NH; graduated 1826 from Middlebury College VT; studied law with Ezekiel Webster for 2 years; 6 July 1833 settled on land next to the Bliss farm in Decker's Prairie- Wabash Co Co IL; taught high school 1833-1849 and studied law; obtained his MD degree and practiced medicine in and around Orio/Linn until his death; in 1838 he and Eliza gave 'two acres - 1 road - 39 rods & three yards' of land to be used as a building site and cemetery. A monument in row 3 marks his grave Lived at: 1840-50 Wabash Co; ch: Eugene* (1830) & Morrill (27 Sep 1833 IL-1 Nov 1901 m: Mary Jane Moorehead {1832-1898} both buried College Hill Cem Lebanon IL) & Germaine* (1836 IL) & Evaline* (1839 IL-1892 m: Charles A Andrews*) & Rosaline* (1839 IL-1877 m: Jesse Lancaster*) & Albert* (1842 IL-1900 m: Sarah Jane Greathouse*).
