Rebecca Knox daughter of Captain Adam Knox and Mary Fox Phillips married William Crosby Shepard



Rebecca Knox daughter of Captain Adam Knox and Mary Fox Phillips was born 1 January 1828 in Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut. She married William Crosby Shepard the son of John Shepard and Lucretia Spaulding Eaton on 7 November 1850 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana. She died 27 April 1885 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana and is buried in the Metairie Cemetery, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.

They had the following children
1 -- Major William Lansing Shepard married to Anne Davis Atkinson
2 -- Samuel Knox Shepard married to Isabelle Middlemiss
3 -- George Edward Shepard
4 -- Charles Lee Shepard married Nelly Earle Walker

5 -- Nellie Muse Shepard married Vincent Loosjes