When Sarah Ellen Shepherd was born on 12 August 1850, in Macon, Illinois, United States, her father, William C Shepperd, was 51 and her mother, Emily Amy Florey, was 42. She married Silas Leland Despain on 17 October 1867, in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Des Moines, Iowa, United States in 1895 and New London Township, Henry, Iowa, United States in 1900. She died on 30 March 1925, in New London, Henry, Iowa, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Burge Cemetery, New London, Henry, Iowa, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1851: Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): occupational name from Middle English schepeherde ‘shepherd’ (Old English scēaphyrde, scēap‐weard).
Americanized form (translation into English) of surnames meaning ‘shepherd’, for example German and Jewish Schäfer (see Schaefer ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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