William Henry Haywood Sheppard (1813 - 1881)

Born 10 Jan 1813 in Snow Hill, Greene, North Carolina, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret Ann (Tyson) Sheppard — married 21 Jan 1841 (to 1863) in Pitt county, NC

Husband of Ann Elizabeth (Neal) Sheppard — married 1865 (to 1870) in Greene county, NC

Died 30 Oct 1881 in Pitt, North Carolina, USA

Biography

When William Henry Haywood SHEPPARD was born on January 10, 1813, in Snow Hill, North Carolina, his father, James, was 26 and his mother, Mary, was 25. He died on October 30, 1881, in Greenville, North Carolina, at the age of 68.

Sources

• "Year: 1850; Census Place: Andersons, Pitt, North Carolina; Roll: M432_641; Page: 32B; Image: 70; Ancestry.com Operations, Inc 2009; Name Henry Sheppard; Age 37; Home in 1850 Andersons, Pitt, North Carolina, USA; Spouse: Margaret Ann Sheppard; with children: Elizt, James G, Benja, and Mary Sheppard; Repository Information; Ancestry.com with image [1]"
• "1880 - Birth of daughter, Henri Ella Sheppard; Ancestry.com Operations, Inc 2014; 09 May 1880; Father: Henry Sheppard; Mother: Ella Williams; Repository Information; Ancestry.com with image [2]"
• "North Carolina, Deaths, 1906-1930; March 28, 1913 of daughter, Henri Ella Sheppard Andrews; Birth: 09 May 1880; Ancestry.com Operations, Inc 2014; Father: Henry Sheppard; Mother: Ella Williams; Repository Information; Ancestry.com with image [3]"
• "U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970; Ancestry.com Operations, Inc 2011; Name Wm Henry Hayward; Sheppard; Birth Date 10 Jan 1813; Birth Place: Greenville, North Carolina; Death Date 30 Oct 1881; Death Place Greenville, North Carolina; SAR Membership 77793; Father James Glasgow Sheppard; Mother Mary Jones Harper; Spouse Margaret Ann Tyson; Children Henry Sheppard; Repository Information; Ancestry.com with image [4]"

Life & Legacy

From "Sketches of Pitt County by Henry Thomas King

SHEPPABD, HENRY, SR., was born in Snow Hill, January 10th, 1813. His father, James Glascow Sheppard, was a son of Benjamin Sheppard. His mother was Mary J. Harper, who married James Glascow Sheppard after the death of W. H. Armstrong, her first husband. She died when Henry was only three years old. He attended the Snow Hill school until his father moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1827, and put him into a printing office. An only brother, Harper Sheppard, became a very prominent lawyer and newspaper man in Tennessee. Henry was very anxious to return to North Carolina and the day he was twenty-one, began the journey on horseback, through the snows of a severe winter. Arriving at Greenville he accepted a position in the store of Sherrod Tyson, sr. Two years later became a partner with his employer in a business at the Tyson place about ten miles west of Greenville. Marrying a daughter of his partner in 1841, he quit mer chandising and went to farming. In 1849 he was elected Clerk of the County Court, being the first democrat elected in many years. He was four times reelected, but had to resign in 1861 on account of ill health, but was soon thereafter a war candidate for the legislature, being defeated by Dr. E. J. Blount, a Union man. Having several times refused to become a candidate for any office, in 1874 he accepted the nomination for Clerk of the Superior Court. He was elected and also the entire democratic ticket, it being the first elected since the war. In 1878, owing to confusion in the convention, a later convention nominated B. W. Brown for Clerk. Sheppard claimed the nomination by the first convention, went before the people and was elected. He died October 30th, 1881, lacking one year of completing the term, and one year of having served in the same office twenty years. He was buried at the old homestead. PITT COUNTY MEN AND WOMEN. 219 "As an officer he was always courteous, obliging and efficient. As a public man, he was of a retiring honest nature. * * * "He was conservative in politics. • * * "in his private life he was a devoted husband and father, a true friend and a generous open-handed, and an affectionate man. He was devoted to his county and State." He was married three times. January 21st, 1841, he married Mar garet Ann, daughter of Sherrod Tyson, sr. They had twelve children. The first died young. Elizabeth (married J. T. Williams), James G., B. S., Mary, Alice, Pattie, Henry, Margaret, Susan E., William, Alex ander. Mrs. Sheppard died in 1863 and in 1865. He then married Mrs. Ann E. Turnage, widow of Benjamin Turnage and a daughter of Dr. Neal. They had two children, Lawrence -B. and Harper D. Ann died in 1870 and in 1875 he married Ella Williams, daughter of Richard Williams. They had two children, Annie W. and Hernie."

http://www.ncgenweb.us/pitt/census/1850census_greenville.htm

538 Sheppard Henry 37 NC Clerk Civil Ct. 1000 Tyson Margaret Ann 28 NC Elizabeth 8 NC James G. 6 NC Benjamin 4 NC Mary 2 NC Holland Washington 44 NC Laborer (black)

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~paday/dobbers/harperfrancis.html

26. WILLIAM HENRY4 SHEPPARD (Mary3Harper, Blaney2, Francis1) was born on 10 January 1813 in Greene County, North Carolina; Seth Tyson Family Bible.; James Glasgow Sheppard Family Bible. He married Margaret (Peggy) Ann Tyson, daughter of Sherrod Tyson and Elizabeth Williams Harper, on 22 January 1841; Sherrod Tyson Family Bible. He died on 27 October 1881 at age 68; Seth Tyson Family Bible.; James Glasgow Sheppard Family Bible. The Tyson book gives his full name as William Henry Haywood. The book states his mother died when he was two months old but he was two years old. His father moved to Memphis, Tenn but when William turned 21 he went back to NC. The Seth Tyson Bible does not give his father. He married two more times and had children by both wives.

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