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Hiram Shepard Born: 01 Jan 1836 Newport, Vermillion Co., IN Married: 09 Jul 1889 Meleansboro, Hamilton Co., Illinois Died: 16 Dec 1898 Newport, Vermillion, IN Buried: Lebanon Cemetery off RT 71 north side of the road FATHER MOTHER WIFE CHILDREN1. Jim Shepard b. 12 Jul 1890 d. 06 Aug 1891 Vermillion Co., IN |
2. Ruth Shepard
b. 16 Mar 1892
3. Carl Shepard
b. 09 Jul 1893 Dana,
Vermillion Co., IN
d. 19 Jun 1961 Niles, Berrien, Michigan
4. Grace Shepard
b. 27 Jul 1895
Hiram Shepard
by Susan Brooke
April 2023
Hiram Shepard was born 1 Jan 1836 in Newport, IN. (1) In 1863 when he was 27 he and his brother Lewis were both called for the draft into the Civil War, but there is no evidence that either of them ever served. (2) He studies medicine at the Miami Medical College in Cincinnati and graduated in 1869. (3) In 1870 he and his brother Lewis and all his siblings were still living with his father, Ben Shepard, in Newport. (4) And, he was practicing medicine in Dana. (5) By 1880 he had moved out of his father's house and was living in Dana probably in a boarding house. (6) He married Susan Hutson on 9 Jul 1889. (1) They had four children but only two were alive at the time of his death. His home was 8 miles southwest of Newport. (7) He had a stroke about five years before he died and then another stroke on 23 Nov 1895. (8) He died on 16 Dec 1898 and was buried in the Lebanon Cemetery. (9) (10)
Sources
(1) Shepard Bible
Shepard Bible births |
Shepard Bible Marriages |
Shepard Bible deaths |
(2) Draft Record 1 Jul 1863
Hiram Shepard, aged 27 unmarried, farmer
Lewis Shepard, aged 22 unmarried,
farmer
Hiram Shepard graduating from medical school
(3) The Chicago Medical Journal, Volume 26, 1869 pg 170 (google book
Last, but not
least, came the Ninth Annual Commencement Exercises of the Miami Medical
College, held in the College building, on Twelfth street, between Elm and Plum
streets, March 2d, in the presence of the Faculty and a large number of ladies
and gentlemen, the friends of the graduates and students, and of medical
education in this city.
(4) 1870 Census
(5)
Biographical and Historical Record of Vermillion County, Indiana, 1888
pg 254
"Dr. Hiram Shepard was born in Newport, this county, graduated at the Miami
Medical College at Cincinnati, and has been practicing at Dana since 1874."
pg, 255
"Dana Lodge, No 581, was instituted February 10, 1881, with eighteen members,
and Hiram Shepard, Noble Grand; Julius C. Groves, Vice Grand; and Fred Rush,
Secretary."
(6)
1880 census Dana, Indiana
(7) Side view of Dr. Hiram Shepard's home taken summer of 1896 or 1897 Hiram with his children, Carl and Grace
Home of Hiram Shepard |
Portrait of Hiram Shepard, courtesy of Paul Shepard |
Tintype of Hiram Shepard |
Tribute from Dana Lodge No. 581 |
(8) Obitituary from The Hoosier State Wednesday, December 21, 1898
(9) Biographical and Historical Record of Vermillion County,
1888, pg 119 "The Lebanon Cemetery lay alongside the Lebanon Methodist
Church which stood about 40 rods west of Route 71 on the north side of the
blacktop road running to Quaker, the area being commonly known as Edgewood.
The land on which the church stood was part of the Wabash Ordnance Plant
land, but not included within the fenced area, and the church was dismantled
along with many other buildings in the vicinity.
The land was entered by Jesse Hollingsworth and passed into the hands of the
Carmack family who deeded the land for the church in 1848.
The cemetery is quite small and the names seen on the stones are Castle,
Holaday, Keen, McFall, Myers, Nickle, Ricker and Dr. Hiram Shepard and wife
Susan. The cemetery is abandoned and is hardly visible from the road, all
that can be seen being a clump of briars."
(10) Buried Lebanon Cemetery off RT 71 north side of road running to Quaker, Vermillion Co., IN
.