Lois Shephard
Abt 1770 - Abt 1857 (~ 87 years)-
Name Lois Shephard Born Abt 1770 [1, 2] Gender Female Died Abt 1857 MA 
[2] Person ID I07887 Sorensen-Remington Family Tree Last Modified 7 Aug 2018
Father Benjamin Shephard Family ID F06671 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Jairus Remington, b. 2 Mar 1767, Abington, MA , d. Bef Oct 1828, Huevelton, NY (Age < 61 years) Married 1 Feb 1795 Wrentham, Norfolk Co., MA [3] Children 1. Eliza Remington, b. 28 Jul 1798, Putney, VT , d. Between 1867 and 1868 (Age 68 years)2. Hiram Remington, b. Abt 1800, VT , d. Bef Oct 1828 (Age ~ 28 years)Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 Family ID F03046 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 David Fisher, d. Abt 1836 Married Abt Oct 1828 Wrentham, Norfolk Co., MA [2, 4] Notes - The marriage announcement was published in the Columbian Centinel on 18 Oct 1828. I am not sure exactly when the wedding took place.
Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 Family ID F06672 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - In her daughter Eliza's baptismal record, Jairus's wife is called Susan. However, in the birth record his wife is mentioned as Lois. I am assuming this was a clerk's or transcriber's error.
1795 REMINGTON Jarus and Lois Shephard of Wrentham, int. Feb. 1, 1795. more Marriage Abington
1795 SHEPHARD Lois of Wrentham, and Jarus Remington, int. Feb. 1, 1795. more Marriage Abington
Lois Fisher, age 70 b MA (b c1771), is living at Wrentham, Norfolk Co., MA, in the 1850 Federal Census (dwelling 266, #292). This is most likely Lois (Shephard) (Remington) Fisher.
The following notes are adapted from the St. Lawrence County Historical Association Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 2, April 1960, Canton, NY, available through PERSI:
After the death of Jarius, his wife moved into a house on DeKalb Rd. Not long after this, her only son Hiram died, and then she removed to Wrentham, MA, which had likely been her former home. There she remarried to David Fisher, a banker, with whom she lived eight years. Mrs. Fisher died at age 87, about 1857, in Massachusetts. Her maiden name was Lois Shepard, daughter of Benjamin Shepard of Wrentham, MA. Mr. Shepard owned the first cotton factory in America and he was also a commissary under General Washington, supplying him with provisions for the army.
This Benjamin Shepard had three sons -- George, Silas, & Benjamin; his daughters were Mrs. Deuce, Mrs. Rev. Fisk, Mrs. Nelson, & Mrs. Jairus Remington.
Mrs. Remington had an uncle who was taken prisoner by the Indians in Vermont and brought to Ogdensburg when it was an Indian village and without a single white inhabitant. He was treated kindly and after eight years was restored to his family.
- In her daughter Eliza's baptismal record, Jairus's wife is called Susan. However, in the birth record his wife is mentioned as Lois. I am assuming this was a clerk's or transcriber's error.
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Sources - [S012590] Birth date calculated from age at death.
- [S013292] St. Lawrence County Historical Association Quarterly, (Vol. 5, No. 2, April 1960: Canton, NY).
- [S012551] Remington Lines from John of Newbury 1638, Boyd Scott Remington, (Ames Iowa, 1960), 1.
- [S012958] Index of Marriages in the Massachusetts Centinal and Columbian Centinal 1784 - 1840, Compiled by the American Antiquarian Society, (Boston: G. K. Hall Co., 1961), Vol. 3, K - R, p. 3029.
- [S012590] Birth date calculated from age at death.