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Allen Shepherd
or Shepherd Cemetery



The cemetery is located in Henry Township (SW quadrant of the SW quadrant of the NW quadrant of the NE quadrant of Section 2 Township 17N Range 10E) east of Indiana State Highway 103 about 0.25 miles south of its intersection with E County Road 200 N.
Last Name First Name Birth Date Death Date Spouse Parents Military Obit/Pics
Shepperd Alan 1781 1832
Shepperd Nathan 1739 1826     NJ Militia, Revolutionary War  
Shepperd (Mrs) Nathan
               



Alan Shepherd is said to have arrived in Henry County in October 1819, but land purchases in 1822 and 1823 indicate he was 'of Delaware County, Indiana'. He arrived in the area with his second wife Ann (Powell) Ward Shepherd, eighty year old father-in-law Nathan Powell and his wife, sons Alan Shepherd Jr (his oldest son with his first wife, born in 1812) and infant Samuel Shepherd, step daughters Eliza Ward (later wife of John Dorrah and William Meek) and Martha Ward (later Mrs Andrew J Lytle), brother-in-law Samuel Powell and his wife and a child. Family tradition states he left two younger sons with his first wife (Elizabeth (Powell) Shepherd), John (born in December 1814) and William D (born 1816). He served as a county commissioner from 1822 to 1823. Shepherd's farm (later known as the Hudelson farm) was the site of several mounds although it isn't clear if they are early military positions or Native American burial sites. Indians had a settlement nearby.



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