Lois Shephard

Female Abt 1770 - Abt 1857  (87 years)

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  • Name Lois Shephard 
    Birth Abt 1770  [1, 2] 
    Gender Female 
    Death Abt 1857  MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 Rev. Jairus Remington,   b. 2 Mar 1767, Abington, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef Oct 1828, Huevelton, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 61 years) 
    Marriage 1 Feb 1795  Wrentham, Norfolk Co., MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Children 
     1. Eliza Remington,   b. 28 Jul 1798, Putney, VT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1867 and 1868 (Age 68 years)
     2. Hiram Remington,   b. Abt 1800, VT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef Oct 1828 (Age < 28 years)
    Family ID F03046  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Family 2 David Fisher   d. Abt 1836 
    Marriage Abt Oct 1828  Wrentham, Norfolk Co., MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [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.
    Family ID F06672  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

  • 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.

  • Sources 
    1. [S012590] Birth date calculated from age at death.

    2. [S013292] St. Lawrence County Historical Association Quarterly, (Vol. 5, No. 2, April 1960: Canton, NY).

    3. [S012551] Boyd Scott Remington, Remington Lines from John of Newbury 1638, (Ames Iowa, 1960), 1.

    4. [S012958] Compiled by the American Antiquarian Society, Index of Marriages in the Massachusetts Centinal and Columbian Centinal 1784 - 1840, (Boston: G. K. Hall Co., 1961), Vol. 3, K - R, p. 3029.