Have you looked for Mary in the cemetery books from Greene County? Also, have you checked the census in 1840 for the Shepherd family to try to find her with her parents? Ellie Terrell Worthington, IN : :>October is Family History Month. In honor of this I offer you the :>following challenge... : :Mary A. SHEPHERD was b. c. 1829 in Indiana and married James B. RITTER on :5 Sep 1846 in GREENE County, Indiana. I do not know exactly where or when :Mary died, but I do know that she was not part of James Ritter's household :in 1870 and that her children eventually had a stepmother. It is :possible that :she died in Polk Co. Missouri, as the family resided there for a time, but :James :and their two children were listed in the 1870 census in Highland :Twn., Greene : Co., IN. I have found two SHEPHERDs in Greene Co. IN who could well be :related :to Mary--John, b. c. 1795 KY and Frederick, born between 1760 and :1770, but I :have not been able to make any family connections or to identify :her parents. : :Roberta : : : :==== INGREENE Mailing List ==== :Please do not send messages with attachments, HTML, MIME, or any :other enhanced text to the list. RootsWeb does not allow messages :with those settings through their servers and will only return them to you. : :============================== :To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy :records, go to: :http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 :