"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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ISAAC D. SHEPPARD was born October 30, 1811, in Cumberland County, N.J. His
parents, Harvey and Amelia (Davis) Sheppard, natives of New Jersey, came to
Indiana in 1818, and located near Madison, removing thence, in 1834, to
Martinsville, Morgan County, Ind., where, in 1852, the father died. The
mother died in 1880, in Franklin, Ind. Isaac D. Sheppard is the eldest in a
family of five children, and was reared on a farm near Madison, Ind. He
received his education in the district schools in the neighborhood, and when
fifteen years of age began to learn harness-making in Madison. After five
and a half years of service, he worked in various places until 1834,when he
came to Martinsville. He here opened a harness shop, and at the present
time is doing a successful business. Mr. Sheppard is a member of the
Republican party. He was married, in September, 1836, to Thurza Tull, of
Martinsville, and he and wife are identified with the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and are active workers in its cause. By their union they have three
children--William, James and Letitia.
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