This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SHEPARD, BORSTAD, BAILEY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/xgB.2ACI/24 Message Board Post: I have recently found a lot more info about the Mrs Beryl BORSTAD who was the 2nd wife of my husband's step-father, Robert Borstad. I think her maiden name was Beryl Madeline SHEPARD & that she was the daughter of Harold Edward and Tillie SHEPARD. I think [perhaps] Beryl SHEPHERD was married at least 3 times: 1st in SD to James E BAILEY; 2nd to Robert BORSTAD and 3rd in Texas to William D. CLEMONS from whom she divorced 1979 in TX. SD marriages: Beryl M SHEPARD age 18 of Huron, Beadle, SD married 5 Apr 1941 at Woonsocket, Sanborn Co, SD James E BAILEY age 25 of Cavour, Beadle, SD by B R Eaer, co Judge TX marriages: Mrs. Beryl Madeline BORSTAD age 43 married 18 Nov 1968 William D. CLEMONS age 39 residence 6721 1/l 2 Harrisburg, Houston, TX TX divorces: William F CLEMONS b < 1930 > age < 49 > and Beryl M [CLEMONS] b < 1926 > age < 53 > divorced 8 Jun 1979 Travis co, TX married 18 Nov 1968 1930 census Apr 14 Huron, Beadle, SD pg152A dw268 fam 268 res: 828 Minnesota Ave H E SHEPARD 30 b IA IA IA farm laborer; rents; married at age 19 Tillie wife 29 b NOR NOR NOR immig 1903? na; married at 18 Viola dau 10 b 1920 SD IA NOR Wanda dau 8 b 1922 SD IA NOR Beryl dau 5 b 1925 SD IA NOR Doris dau 4 b 1926 SD IA NOR Yvonne dau 3 b 1927 SD IA NOR Darwin son 10/12 b abt Jun 1929 SD IA NOR Are these her sisters marriages?: SD marriages: Viola K SHEPARD age 19 of Beadle, SD married 24 Apr 1939 at Woonsocket, Sanborn co, SD Clarence G ENGEBRETSON 25 of Huron, Beadle, SD. Doris SHEPARD age 18 b <1926> of Howard, Miner, SD married 27 Feb 1944 Howard, Miner, SD Donald PAYE age 22 born < 1922> of Howard, Miner, SD by Homer W Minish, minister Yonne [Yvonne?] Elaine SHEPARD age 18 born <1926 > of Huron, Beadle, SD married 26 Jun 1943 in Chamberlain, Brule, SD Emil Henry MOLLER age 38 widower of Wessington(?), Beadle, SD; by M A Holmes, J P I think Beryl's sister Wanda died in 1937 at abt age 15. Wanda M SHEPARD d 13 Dec 1937 Beadle co, SD [source: SD deaths] The following is probably Beryl SHEPARD's father: Harold SHEPARD b 1 Aug 1899 d 28 Jun 1991 Huron, Beadle, SD 57350 ss#SD [source: Soc Sec Death Index] WWI Draft Registration in Beadle co, SD: Harold Edward SHEPARD b 1 Sep 1899 of 42 Wessington?, Beadle, SD farm laborer-employed by: Gustave Nordby.