Iowa
Old Press
Des Moines Tribune
DesMoines, Polk co. Iowa
Monday, January 6, 1936
Mrs. Shepard Is Dead at 92 - Came to Iowa in Covered
Wagon.
Mrs. Christy A. Shepard, 92, died Monday morning at the
home of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ella E. Shepard, 1418
Nineteenth st.
Mrs. Shepard was born in Ohio in 1843 and was brought to Iowa by
her parents in a covered wagon in 1853. They settled south of
Newton in Jasper county and her father later operated a stage
coach inn at Grove City, southeast of Atlantic.
Mrs. Shepard had lived in Des Moines since 1902.
Funeral services will be at Dunn’s funeral home at 10 a.m.
Wednesday, with burial in Stuart, Ia., the same day.
Mrs. Shepard was the mother of five sons, two of whom, R. B.
Shepard of Atlantic, Ia., and C. A. Shepard, of Council, Idaho,
are still living. She is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. A. H.
Walker of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Mrs. Emma Cromer, Des Moines; a
brother, Frank Drake, San Diego, Cal.; and 20 grandchildren and
12 great-grandchildren.
[transcribed by L.Z., November 2017]