William A. Shepherd Family Newspaper Articles
This page is devoted to newspaper articles mentioning oemone in the William Shepherd family. These are from local papers when the Shepherds lived in Wabaunsee County, Kansas and later in Butler County, Kansas. Local papers often had columns of news regarding citizens and as often the only official "record" of a birth or death. These were mainly copied from the Kansas State Archives in Topeka, Kansas which has most of the early Kansas newspapers on microfilm. Some are not as sharp as they are a digital camera picture of the microfilm display.
1884-03-08 Emma Gorman Shepherd hired to teach school (William's 1st wife)
1884-03-26 Emma hired to teach
1888-10-20 Florence Shepherd sick
1888-12-13 Bertha Shepherd burned
1889-01-11 Bertha Shepherd is improving
1889-04-25 Girl (later named Mabel) is born to Will and Emma
1889-10-04 Walter Shepherd is sick
1889-12-06 Will and family have Thanksgiving with Pastor
1890-05-09 Emma Shepherd is ill
1892-06-24 Charley visits his brother Will Shepherd
1894-12-01 Will sells his property to open a store with brother Charley
1894-12-08 Shepherd Bros building a store
1894-12-21 Shepherd store is ready to occupy
1895-04-05 Will's store burglarized
1895-05-03 Bertha Shepherd ill
1895-07-26 Will to feed cattle in winter
1895-12-05 Will injured
1896-01-02 Will ships corn
1896-01-24 William sells store to father and brother
1896-02-27 Will moves back onto his farm
1896-03-05 Will is "making preparations" to move back to his farm
1896-05-21 Alfred Leo Shepherd is born
1896-11-12 Will sells all of his town lots
1897-01-29 Will visits his brother
1897-02-11 WA Shepherd is in town
1898-01-20 Will Shepherd accompanies cattle shipment
1898-01-21 Wm Shepherd herding cattle
1898-03-03 William Shepherd hires farm hand
1898-04-21 Will moves cattle
1898-05-20 Wm buys some property
1898-08-30 Claudia Marie Shepherd born
1898-09-08 Will ad to make molasses
1898-10-13 Will has mader 3000 gallons of molasses
1898-11-03 Will contracts for cattle
1899-09-07 Claudia Marie Shepherd dies
1899-09-07 Claudia Marie Obit
1899-09-15 Claudia Obit
1899-09-21 Odessa Pearl Shepherd born
1900-01-04 Will and Daisy at Theo and Lida's anniversary. They reveal Odessa's name
1900-01-18 Will gets a visit from Theo
1900-05-03 Will and family visit Theo and Lida
1900-10-25 Daisy visits Burlingame
1901-06-20 Daisy Shepherd accident
1901-06-21 Daisy slips and breaks a leg
1901-07-25 Will's Uncle visits
1902-01-01 Personal property valuation
1902-02-20 Will visits his parents
1902-04-06 Bertha and future husband at the Shepherds
1902-04-25 Wm Shepherd county invoice
1902-09-25 Will and others to Topeka
1903-05-04 Lida visits Wm to take care of sick Mabel
1903-05-04 Wm Shepherd and telephones
1903-05-21 Wm and Theo witnesses
1903-06-25 WM Shepherd sells plants
1903-10-22 Leo Shepherd breaks a leg
1903-11-06 Leo's leg amputated
1903-11-13 Bertha clerking and nursing
1904-02-26 Bertha Shepherd Wilmington clerk
1904-02-26 Advert for phones
1904-03-04 Bertha visits Will
1904-03-11 Wm sprains knee
1904-04-01 Walter clerking
1904-04-09 Mabel visiting Bertha
1904-05-08 WA Shepherd has customers
1904-06-08 WA Shepherd and his sorghum
1904-07-06 WM Shepherd installs a phone and customer excited
1904-07-22 Charley visits Will
1904-11-03 Wm at caucus
1904-11-18 William is elected an Overseer
1905-01-09 Wm paid for county job
1905-01-25 Olive Gladys Shepherd is born
1905-01-27 Another article on Olive's birth but date is different
1905-02-28 Wedding shower for Bertha
1905-03-08 All of these articles refer to the marriage of William's daughter Bertha. Some are a bit blurry
1905-04-13 Will and Charley visit
1905-04-27 Will installs several phones
1905-05-18 WA Shepherd electrician
1905-09-01 Will needs buckets
1905-09-14 Odessa ill
1905-10-04 Will and sorghum
1906-04-03 Maude Shepherd has malaria
1907-05-31 More phones for Wm
1907-05-31 Phones in Osage
1907-09-17 Fire at Bertha's while Will is sleeping
1907-11-21 Sorgum king
1908-07-17 Will runs for office
1908-12-28 Will and family at Theo's
1909-01-01 Will visits parents
1909-10-22 Will and molasses
1909-12-01 Auction before move
1909-12-08 Auction ad
1909-12-30 Wm family at Theo's for Christmas
1909-12-30 Will and family to Missouri
1909-12-30 Another article about Will leaving
1911-03-01 Wm home due to death of his mother
1911-03-02 Back to Missouri
1914-03-06 Will visiting his father
1916-11-17 Will and daughter Odessa visit
1917-04-20 Maud and Olive visit
1917-12-20 Claudia Daisy Robinson Shepherd dies in El Dorado after family moves back
1918-06-01 Marriage license for Leo
1918-07-04 Leo to go into Army
1919-06-18 Witness to crime. Not sure of the identity of Mrs Shepherd
1921-02-18 Valentine's day party
1923-07-23 Olive Gladys married
1923-07-27 Olive Gladys married
1934-02-02 News of William's death
Updated on 16 February 2017
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