Shepherd, Jonathan Avery
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 0, credited to Brandon, VT Unit(s): CSA Chaplain Service: Episcopal Minister, Chaplain of opening session of the Confederate States Congress, Montgomery, AL See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 08/26/1816, Brandon, VT Death: 03/30/1898 Burial: Rural Cemetery, Santa Rosa, CA Marker/Plot: Western Half, Circle M Gravestone photographer: Carroll Albertson Findagrave Memorial #: 41286145 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Not eligible Portrait?: Unknown College?: MC Veterans Home?: Not Found (If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war) Remarks: None DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
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Jonathan A. Shepherd
JONATHAN AVERY SHEPHERD, son of Jonathan and Abigail (Avery) Shepherd. Born in Brandon, Vt., Aug. 26,1816. Studied in the Episcopal Theological Semtnary, New York City. Ordained, priest, 1844. Rector in Wilmington, N. C., and other places in the South many years. Principal, San Francisco Female Institute, 18561857; Ladies' Seminary, Montgomery. Acted as Chaplain to open the first session of the Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Ala. Principal, St. Clement's Hall, Ellicott City, Md. Rector of St. Andrew's College, Mississippi; Church of the Incarnation, Santa Rosa, Cal., seventeen vears. Married Evelvn Turner, May 6, 1854. Child: Herbert M. A. B.; A. M.; D.'D., 1868. Died in Santa Rosa, Cal., March 30, 1898.
Source: Walter E. Howard and Charles E. Prentiss, Catalogue of officers and students of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont... 1800 to 1900, (The Register Co. Print, Middlebury, 1901), 115.