CLARINDA JANE (SANDERSON) SHEPPERD

DUNKLEBERGER, SANDERSON, SHEPPERD, WRIGHT, HAYS, POWERS

Posted By: David (email)
Date: 12/13/2004 at 12:38:27

The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, March 21, 1907

CLARINDA JANE (SANDERSON) SHEPPERD was born near Brownstown, Indiana, July
14, 1833, her parents being from New York State. The experiences of her
childhood and early womanhood were those normally incident to a daughter in
a rather prosperous farmer's family in southern Indiana. She had a fair
amount of schooling and a thorough training with ample practice in the arts
of housekeepng with its accessories of spinning, weaving, etc., all of which
resulted in the development of a strong, sympathetic, self-reliant character

In December, 1850, she was joined in marriage to J.W. SHEPPERD, a young
blacksmith. In the spring of 1851 the new family, together with the wife's
father and mother and their family, came to Lucas County, Iowa, and took up
land in Whitebreast Township. The usual hardships of building a home in a
new country were theirs, but they entered upon it with zest and soon had a
comfortable, though small and unpretentious home. Her father and mother,
ELISHA SANDERSON and JUNIA (WRIGHT) SANDERSON died in the latter sixties,
and were laid to rest in the Chariton Cemetery.

Sister SHEPPERD and her husband became members of the Christian Church in
Chariton, Iowa, a few years after coming to the State and have maintained
membership there ever since. Of the seven children who were born to them,
one, ADDALIZA BELL, died in early childhood; a second one, CLARA J. (HAYS),
died some fourteen years ago, after accomplishing very much of a woman's
work. The other five were all present at the funeral services. One
remarkable thing about this family is that all of them are college graduates
-- and most of them have taken several different degrees, which they
attribute largely to the self-sacrifice and devotion of their mother and
father. BRUCE is a Professor in Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa; J.N. is
Dean of Agriculture of the State University, Fargo, North Dakota; JUNIATTA L
is Professor of Domestic Science in the State University, Minneapolis, Minn
; G.W. is a farmer at Moscow, Idaho; MARY POWERS, is a farmer's wife,
Ogallah, Kansas.

All who knew MRS. SHEPPERD recognized her as a gentle, patient, industrious,
sympathetic, loving and self-sacrificing woman. Funeral services were held
at the old homestead march 16, 1907, conducted by D.L. Dunkleberger, Pastor
of the Christian Church, Chariton, Iowa.
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