re Joseph shepherd and Rachael wilson 4337
joseph shepherd and rachael wilson were my 2nd grandparents. I got a letter a couple of years ago from a lady looking for Thomas. It will take me a little while to find it. The letter said her parents found a message in a newspaper from an elderly Thomas Shepherd who was trying to find family as he was quite ill. They were planning on a trip to Texas but tragedy struck her family and the trip never came about. Her parents told her While Thomas was away fighting in the civil war his wife pheby became pregnant. When he came home he killed the other man. Pheby's father was the shiriff so Thomas left Georgia for Texas.I don't know how to verify all this. She did not mention the town re:in Texas. I belive the newspaper was in Missouri.