Birth: 9 February 1858 Vernal, Greene County, Mississippi, USA
Father: Lewis Harrington (Shug) Adams 1829/30-1860
Mother: Charlotte Cowart c1830-1903
Christening: Unknown
Marriage:15 December 1880 Greene County, Mississippi, USA
Husband: John Thomas Sheppard (Shephard, Shepherd) 1855-1904
Death: 9 April 1929 Lucedale, George County, Mississippi, USA
Burial: Section B-8 Rocky Creek Cemetery, Lucedale, George County, Mississippi, USA
Robert Linsey Sheppard (Shephard, Shepherd) 1882-1968
Benjamin Franklin Sheppard (Shephard, Shepherd) 1884-1932
Mary Louise Sheppard (Shephard, Shepherd) [Claxton] 1885-1945
William Perry Sheppard (Shephard, Shepherd) 1886-1926
Lewis Avery Sheppard (Shephard, Shepherd) 1890-1938
Clarence Eugene Sheppard (Shephard, Shepherd) 1895-1940
There is a submitted entry in the IGI for Sarah Evelyn Adams born in 1858 in Wilcox, Alabama, parents Lewis H or Shug Adams and Charlotte Cowart in Mississippi, and another with similar information except her birth is in Wilcox County, Alabama. Another submitted entry gives her birth in 1858, parents Lewis H or Shug Adams and Charlotte Cowart, and her marriage to John C or Babe Sheppard in 1880 in Mississippi.
There is an entry in the Pedigree Resource File for Sarah Evelyn Adams, parents Lewis H Adams and Charlotte Cowart. Another entry adds her birth in 1858 and her marriage to John C "Babe" Sheppard in 1880, another adds her birth in Mississippi, another in Leakesville, Greene County, Mississippi, and another her death on 9 April 1920 in Mississippi but gives her husband as J T Shephard.
There is an entry in the Ancestral Resource File for Sarah Evelyn Adams born in 1858 in Mississippi, parents Lewis H (Slug) Adams and Charlotte Cowart, and her marriage to John C (Babe) Sheppard in 1880.
In the 1860 census as Sarah Adams aged 2, and living with LH and Charlott (parents?), Charls, (brother?), and Mary and Nancy (sisters?) in Greene County, Mississippi.
Her father died shortly after this census.
In the 1870 census as Sarah Adams aged 10 and living with Charlote (mother?), Chas and Lewis (brothers?), Mancy and Mary (sisters?) and Ezekel Coward (grandfather?) in Greene, Mississippi. In the Greene County Census for 1870 she is Sarah Adams living with Charlota, Maney, Chas, Mary, Lewis and Ezakiel Coward.
In the 1880 census as Sarah Adams aged 20, born in Mississippi, white, single, no stated employment and living with her widowed mother (Charlotte), two brothers (Charles and Lewis), two sisters (Mary Mofet and Nancey), brother-in-law (Ely Moffet) and nephew (Thomas Moffet) in Vernal, Greene County, Mississippi.
In the 1900 census as Sarah Shepard aged 34, and living with her husband (John T), five sons (Ben F, Clarence E, Lewis A, Robert L and William H) and daughter (Mary L) in Greene County, Mississippi.
Her husband died in 1904.
In the 1910 census as Sarah Shepherd aged 49, and living with her four sons (Benjaman, Clarence, Louis and William) in George County, Mississippi.
In the 1920 census as Sarah Shepherd aged 60 and living in George Couynty, Mississippi.
Entry in Cemetery Records Online in Rocky Creek Cemetery, Lucedale, George County, Mississippi for Sarah Evelyn (Adams) Shephard born on 9 February 1858 and died on 9 April 1929, in Section B-8. This is some 6 miles east of Lucedale towards Mobile, Alabama.
There are sixteen entries in RootsWeb WorldConnect for Sarah Evelyn Adams born in 1858 parents Lewis H (Snug) Adams and Charlotte Cowart, eight of which place her birth in Vernal, Greene County, Mississippi. One gives her marriage to John C Cheppard, two to John C "Babe" Sheppard, two to John T Shepperd and two to John Thomas Shappard. One gives one son Robert Linsey "Bud" Shepherd. Another lists the children as Bud, Bill, Ben, Clarence, Mary and Lewis. Two entries list all six children.
There are nineteen in Ancestry Public Member Trees with similar combinations of information.
There is an entry in Goodwin Family History for Sarah Evelyn Adams born on 9 February 1858, parents Lewis Harrington Adams and Charlotte Cowart, her marriage to John Thomas Shephard on 15 December 1880 in Greene County, Mississippi, her five children (not William), her death on 9 April 1929 and burial in Rocky Creek Cemetery, George County, Mississippi.
Sarah Evelyn Adams was my fourth cousin twice removed.
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