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
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