Looking for Deborah Nash BATES SHEPARD, baptised at Dedham MA 4 Jan 1824, d. Cambridge MA 8 May 1892, daughter of William and Deborah (NASH) BATES. She married Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard, b. Natick MA 7 July 1816, d. Bellingham MA 25 Aug 1889. They had a child born in Boston MA - Ella Gertrude SHEPARD, b. ca. 1846, m. at Quincy MA 23 June 1870 to William Otis HOWLAND, b. at Worcester MA 27 March 1838, son of Southworth Allen and Esther (ALLEN) HOWLAND. They had three children: Shepard HOWLAND, b. Quincy MA 29 March 1871 (unmarried), Allen Shepard HOWLAND b. Swatow China, d. ca 1962 Cambridge MA (unmarried), and Gerald Shepard HOWLAND, b. Worcester MA 20 Aug 1879, d. 1970 Port Huron, MI. Gerald was my grandfather. I have photographs going back to the 1850's of Deborah, Isaac and Ella, and an assortment of correspondence and diaries. Happily, this was a family of packrats. Ring any bells? Hope so! Sandy Smith shswest@earthlink.net