1880 Census Buncombe Co ...Shephards...NO Benjamin (of course the Benjamin trying to locate that took in Milton Louis,Revis, could have been in Madison Co, and then maybe the Uncle Benjamin was not Shepherd but someone else) > At Flat Creek # 11, Buncombe Co. > Shephard, Henry 54 NC, NC, NC, Fields 15, Robert 12, Lottie 10, Sarah Nix 23 > serv., John 1, Lucian Garison 20 lab. > > Shephard, Alfred 21 NC, NC, NC, Polly M, 21, Udorah 2 > > Shepard, Calvin 25, NC, NC, NC Harriet 25 There were also three black families in Ashville Twn Possible a John Shephard on 1820 Buncombe Co census, had 4 daughters b1810-1820..could be father of Fanny Shepherd who married Wm N Revis ca1840-42 (if she was not indeed Blackwell). One of his daughters Elizabeth married Chandler. On 1800 only one Shephard: Thomas who had 5 males and 3 females in his household. He may have been father of John above (speculation) *B