Thornton Shepherd preached in the Primitive Baptist Church for forty-nine years. In Illinois he ministered to four churches, walking twenty miles in order to cover his pastoral territory and receiving no pay for preaching or attendance. He did the same work in what are now Cass and Greene Counties, and at the Pisgah Sulphur Springs Baptist Church, in Morgan County, of which the family are still members. He died in his eightieth year; and four years after his decease, his widow also in her eightieth year, passed away.
He carried on farming industriously, sought no official honors, and in the church was a peacemaker. He and his wife reared eleven children. Thornton Shepherd was a man more than ordinarily public-spirited and liberal, thoroughly honest in all his dealings and extremely kind to the poor, looking personally after their needs and assisting the unfortunate where ever they were to be found, without regard to color or religious denomination."
Thornton Shepherd preached in the Primitive Baptist Church for forty-nine years. In Illinois he ministered to four churches, walking twenty miles in order to cover his pastoral territory and receiving no pay for preaching or attendance. He did the same work in what are now Cass and Greene Counties, and at the Pisgah Sulphur Springs Baptist Church, in Morgan County, of which the family are still members. He died in his eightieth year; and four years after his decease, his widow also in her eightieth year, passed away.
He carried on farming industriously, sought no official honors, and in the church was a peacemaker. He and his wife reared eleven children. Thornton Shepherd was a man more than ordinarily public-spirited and liberal, thoroughly honest in all his dealings and extremely kind to the poor, looking personally after their needs and assisting the unfortunate where ever they were to be found, without regard to color or religious denomination."
Family Members
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Rachel Sheppard
1824–1901
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Martha Ann Sheppard Grider
1825–1897
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Joseph Johnson Sheppard
1827–1916
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Mary Ann Sheppard Haney
1829–1854
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Alban D. "Allen" Sheppard
1831–1897
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Emily M. Sheppard Reynolds
1834–1909
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William Stewart Sheppard
1836–1908
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John Sheppard
1838–1839
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Lewis Washington Sheppard
1840–1903
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Cyrus Wright Sheppard
1842–1922
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Melissa J. Sheppard Stillwell
1844–1916
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Lucy Ellen Sheppard Thompson
1847–1890
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