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Submitted: 5/20/20 • Approved: 5/20/20 • Last Updated: 5/23/20 • R825478-G0-S3
Nov 26, 1842 Lees Summit, Jackson County, MO
Apr 4, 1868 Lees Summit, Jackson County, MO
Son of James Pendleton Shepherd and M. Eleanor Boggs
Married Mary Jane "Molly" Vance 2 Feb 1860 Jackson, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Purportedly the first person buried at Lee's Summit Cemetery.
He rode with Quantrill and surrendered at Liberty, Missouri on May 28, 1865 with four other guerrillas. He was involved in the Russellville, Kentucky bank robbery on March 20, 1868 and was killed the following April by a vigilante committee looking for the bank robbers.
Contributed on 5/20/20 by tomtodd
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