When Mary May Shephard was born on 7 April 1864, in Mendon, Adams, Illinois, United States, her father, William Harrison Shepherd, was 30 and her mother, Ruth Ann Bassett, was 26. She married Robert Willis Turner on 7 April 1884, in Polk, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Walker Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1880 and North Heppner Election Precinct, Morrow, Oregon, United States in 1940. She died on 28 October 1940, in Heppner, Morrow, Oregon, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Heppner, Morrow, Oregon, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1885: Morrow, Oregon, United States
English: variant of Shepherd .
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