Grant was the son of Martin Shepard and Adelia Jane Bennet. He married "Louie" Kenyon in Tacoma, Washington where her family had moved. She was also from Carrol Co. Illinois.
Grant and Louie settled in Ellendale and had three daughters, Irma, Alice and Joyce. The census records listed Grant's profession as real estate salesman. He supplemented his farm income by working as a brakeman on the railroad. From their home they could see the train coming from 30 miles away. Their home had covered-wagon tracks in front of their house that had been made decades earlier.
The Sept. 8, 1913 issue of the "Alberdeen Daily News" contained the following passage: "Grant Shepard, who came to Dickey county in the early days, farmed intelligently and stuck to the land through lean as well as fat years, has just sold six quarter sections of good farm land to Reinhold Quist. Mr. Quist, who had been a renter on part of the land he just purchased, paid $20,000 in cash for six quarters, and saved the money while farming the rented land."
Louie developed a lung ailment early in life, and became a semi-invalid, though lived into her 80s. After Grant died, Louie lived with her oldest daughter, Irma, in Springfield, Illinois. Their daughters Alice and Joyce are also listed in this cemetery under their married names, though the husbands are not buried with them.
Grant and Louie settled in Ellendale and had three daughters, Irma, Alice and Joyce. The census records listed Grant's profession as real estate salesman. He supplemented his farm income by working as a brakeman on the railroad. From their home they could see the train coming from 30 miles away. Their home had covered-wagon tracks in front of their house that had been made decades earlier.
The Sept. 8, 1913 issue of the "Alberdeen Daily News" contained the following passage: "Grant Shepard, who came to Dickey county in the early days, farmed intelligently and stuck to the land through lean as well as fat years, has just sold six quarter sections of good farm land to Reinhold Quist. Mr. Quist, who had been a renter on part of the land he just purchased, paid $20,000 in cash for six quarters, and saved the money while farming the rented land."
Louie developed a lung ailment early in life, and became a semi-invalid, though lived into her 80s. After Grant died, Louie lived with her oldest daughter, Irma, in Springfield, Illinois. Their daughters Alice and Joyce are also listed in this cemetery under their married names, though the husbands are not buried with them.
Grant was the son of Martin Shepard and Adelia Jane Bennet. He married "Louie" Kenyon in Tacoma, Washington where her family had moved. She was also from Carrol Co. Illinois.
Grant and Louie settled in Ellendale and had three daughters, Irma, Alice and Joyce. The census records listed Grant's profession as real estate salesman. He supplemented his farm income by working as a brakeman on the railroad. From their home they could see the train coming from 30 miles away. Their home had covered-wagon tracks in front of their house that had been made decades earlier.
The Sept. 8, 1913 issue of the "Alberdeen Daily News" contained the following passage: "Grant Shepard, who came to Dickey county in the early days, farmed intelligently and stuck to the land through lean as well as fat years, has just sold six quarter sections of good farm land to Reinhold Quist. Mr. Quist, who had been a renter on part of the land he just purchased, paid $20,000 in cash for six quarters, and saved the money while farming the rented land."
Louie developed a lung ailment early in life, and became a semi-invalid, though lived into her 80s. After Grant died, Louie lived with her oldest daughter, Irma, in Springfield, Illinois. Their daughters Alice and Joyce are also listed in this cemetery under their married names, though the husbands are not buried with them.
Grant and Louie settled in Ellendale and had three daughters, Irma, Alice and Joyce. The census records listed Grant's profession as real estate salesman. He supplemented his farm income by working as a brakeman on the railroad. From their home they could see the train coming from 30 miles away. Their home had covered-wagon tracks in front of their house that had been made decades earlier.
The Sept. 8, 1913 issue of the "Alberdeen Daily News" contained the following passage: "Grant Shepard, who came to Dickey county in the early days, farmed intelligently and stuck to the land through lean as well as fat years, has just sold six quarter sections of good farm land to Reinhold Quist. Mr. Quist, who had been a renter on part of the land he just purchased, paid $20,000 in cash for six quarters, and saved the money while farming the rented land."
Louie developed a lung ailment early in life, and became a semi-invalid, though lived into her 80s. After Grant died, Louie lived with her oldest daughter, Irma, in Springfield, Illinois. Their daughters Alice and Joyce are also listed in this cemetery under their married names, though the husbands are not buried with them.
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