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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 00:08:01 -0500

Chattahoochee-Muscogee County GaArchives Biographies.....Sheppard, Andrew unknown - living in 1933 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher November 5, 2004, 12:07 am Author: N. K. Rogers ANDREW SHEPPARD Facts in this narrative were furnished by Mr. A. W. Cannon. All who are familiar with past events in Chattahoochee County have asked the author of this volume to include something concerning the life of Andrew Sheppard. He and his sister Nellie lived on land he sold to a Mr. McCart, when they removed to place late occupied by the family of his nephew A. W. Cannon. Mr. Sheppard bought an Indian boy about eight years of age from his mother in Columbus, Ga., for $10.00. This boy was legally bound and given the name of Jack Sheppard. Mr. Sheppard had already adopted a white boy named Pat Carter, and since an Indian could not attend school here, Pat on returning home each day would teach the Indian youth all he had learned. When the Indian was 21 years of age, Mr. Sheppard gave him and Pat each a horse and a broad cloth suit of clothes. While in Columbus, some one stole Jack's horse, so he returned to the only home he knew and worked for another year. At the expiration of this time. Mr Sheppard paid Him $100.00. when he departed for the Indian Reservation. He wrote that he could not live under conditions as they existed there and went to their Missionary Station. Jack joined the army during the War between the States and was killed. After the war ended a missionary named Buckner, who once preached to the Indians at this Station was traveling through this part of the country, preaching wherever he went and stopped to see Mr. Sheppard. He was accompanied by a smart Indian who had known Jack and he told about his having been killed in the service of the Confederate Army. After leaving his home, Pat and Jack wrote frequently to Mr. Sheppard, but he eventually ceased to hear from Pat and never knew what became of him. Mr. Sheppard reared two other boys, Asa and Andrew Womack, his nephews: Asa married a daughter of John McGlaun. Thye had one son, Davis McGlaun. Asa's wife died while he was in the army. Andrew Womack had married Lougenia R., daughter of D. G. McGlaun. They had a son William: Andrew Womack was killed during the war and Asa married second the widow of Andrew Womack. They had two sons and two daughters. Mr. Andrew W. Cannon's father died in 1857 in Muscogee County and his mother died seven hours later from shock. They are buried in the same grave in Double Churches Cemetery. Mr. Cannon was then two years old and was reared in the home of his uncle Andrew and Aunt Nellie Sheppard. There were two of Mr. Sheppard's nieces, Sallie and Jane Thomas who lived in a house near by, and after Mr. Sheppard's death in June 1889, (buried at County Line Cemetery) Mr. Cannon moved to his home, for he inherited the Sheppard property and lived at their home place all his life until recent months since the death of his wife in 1929, when he has visited much and all his children. Additional Comments: From: HISTORY OF CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY, GEORGIA By N. K. Rogers Dedicated to KASIHITA CHAPTER U. D. C. and all worthy descendants of the County's first settlers. Copyright 1933 by N. K. ROGERS PRINTED BY COLUMBUS OFFICE SUPPLY CO. COLUMBUS, GA. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/chattahoochee/bios/gbs570sheppard.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb