"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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JAMES S. SHEPPARD is the second son and child of Isaac D. and Thurza (Hess)
Sheppard, natives of New Jersey and Kentucky respectively. He was born
November 11, 1839, in Martinsville, Morgan County, Ind. James Sheppard was
reared in Martinsville, where he obtained a good English education. When
thirteen years of age, he entered his father's harness shop and began
learning the trade, at which he worked until June 16, 1862, when he enlisted
in Company C, Sixteenth Indiana Volunteers, under Capt. Paul J. Beachbard.
He served more that three years, participating in the battles at Richmond,
Ky., Arkansas Post, siege of Vicksburg (Red River campaign), Black River,
Sabine Cross Roads, and some few others. After the close of the war, he
returned to his home, where he resumed his trade, which, in 1875, he gave
up, becoming a partner of N. T. Cunningham of Martinsville, in the general
merchandize business. He continued in the business for five years, when,
his health failing, he sold his interest and retired from business for one
year. In January, 1881, he became agent for pianos and organs in
Martinsville, and at present is so engaged very successfully. On September
19, 1867, he was married to Lydia S. Meginnis, a daughter of the Rev.
William Meginnis, one of the oldest Methodist ministers in the Indiana
conference. By this union there are two children--Harry A. and Lulie A.
Mr. Sheppard is a member of the I. O. O. F. Lodge, No. 274, and also of the
G. A. R. Politically, he is a Republican.
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