>I want to thank you for all of the help and insights you have given me
>in pursuing the Shepards. I have shared our discussion with other
>members of the Alabama branch of the Shepard family. I am about to send
>a record of what we have found to Tom Bottoms. Tom has possession of the
>Shepard family Bible cited in my first note to this list. to the best of
>my knowledge, Tom has not entered the computer age. I think he will be
>surprised at the doors he opened when he shared his Bible's listing of
>the family births and marriages. I am sure that his Bible was passed
>down from Francis Shepard.
It's a most interesting area of Midway history on which you and Tom
have shone a light. Already some new connections have turned up,
and some old ones now make more sense.
> I would like to endorse pursuing some of the other related lines. I was
>fascinated by the earlier discussion of the Way family. The more we know
>about each other families - the more we know about our own lines. I have
>learned dynamics of the American Revolution from genealogical research
>that I never learned as a history major.
Sounds like you have some good examples. Can you tell us one or two?
>W. Hugh Tucker
John S. Quarterman <jsq@quarterman.org>
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