NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11178 BATH CO MRS. ELIZABETH CALDWELL SHEPHERD Shepherd, Tinker, Lewellen #11178: Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883. Bath County. Bath Co. Old Ladies. Mrs. Shepherd was born in Bath county, Kentucky on the 19th day of October, 1812. She came to Missouri in November, 1829, and settled on Peno Creek, and in the township of the same name, where she lived for two years and during which time, on March 24th, 1831, she was married to her first husband, Edwin B. Tinker. After her marriage she moved and settled on the farm upon which John Lewellen now resides. After a few years residence, here she moved with her husband to Bowling Green, where he died in July, 1840. Four children were born to them, all of whom are still living and residing with the limits of Pike county. In the latter part of 1841, the subject of this sketch was again married to John H. Shepherd, by whom she had seven children, five of whom are still living. Mrs. Shepherd has lived to see the country grow from a few meager settlements into a populous district and from almost abject poverty into a country teeming with wealth. The wolves, whose howlings was a source of constant alarm, have forever disappeared; the forests, which it seemed could never be cleared away, have at last succumbed to the woodmans ax, and even the pestiferous flies that infected the prairies and made travel both disagreeable and unsafe, have long since forsaken their former haunts. The country which she first knew as a wilderness she has lived to see blossom as the rose, and the hamlets and villages of her girlhood have grown into thriving towns and prosperous cities. Mrs. Shepherd lost her last husband about two years ago. She still resides at the old homestead, in Bowling Green, and is always busy, cheerful, and apparently happy; she has long been known as a good neighbor, kind to all, generous to those needing assistance and hospitable as is the rule and habit of the early settlers of Pike. For fifty years she has been a member of the Baptist Church, and awaits without any apprehension or fear the common fate which in the course of nature must befall her. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch