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SHEPHERD, HENRY M., farmer; Sec 10; P.O. Payson; is the third of a family of three sons and one daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Winfield) Shepherd, who were natives of Virginia, but brought up and married in, Iredell county, N. C., where he was born July 3, 1809. His father having died, he came with his mother to Payson township, Adams county, in 1835 and has lived there since. He married Elizabeth Waugh, May 16, 1827. She is the daughter of John, and Isabella (Irvin) Waugh, also born in North Carolina. They have had eleven children, nine living: Mrs. E. A. Hoffman, Mrs. M. J. Kitchen, Mrs. Isabella Hoffman, Warren, Henry M., Mrs. Emily Burdsell, Mrs. Harriet McKee, Mrs. Charlotte Anderson, and Maximillian. The fourth child, George, and the next younger, John A., died in the service of their country. George was killed by the Indians, while in the volunteer service, on the frontier, in 1852. John, a member of Co. E, 84th Regt. Ill. Inf., died at Nashville, Tenn., in 1862. Mr. Shepherd had three sons, three sons-in-law, and a grandson in the late war. He owns eighty acres in the home farm, worth $55 per acre. He and wife are members of the Congregational church.