WILLIAM SHEPHERD
1796 - 1883
MARY DOAK
1800 - 1884
HIS WIFE
THEIR CHILDREN
JAMES E. SHEPHERD
1841 - 1845
JOSEPH L. SHEPHERD
1843 - 1851
SAMUEL H. SHEPHERD
1830 - 1870
THIS LOT HAS PAID PERPETUAL CARE
Although the epitaph on this tombstone states "perpetual care", without the care of volunteers this family plot seems to be receiving no care at all. If you see the photo below above, this stone was languishing in a jungle of vegetation. Smaller stones nearby were completely covered. Please look at this stone at the Find a Grave website to see how it used to look when the city of Manchester took pride in this cemetery: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75651100/mary-shepherd
The Shepherd stone is near the bottom of the stairs (yes, there are stairs under the vegetation!) behind the Hildreth memorial stone, which was featured last week for Tombstone Tuesday.
The other side of this stone (no photo) reads:
BENJAMIN E. THOMPSON
1835 - 1922
SARAH E. SHEPHERD
1836 - 1911
HIS WIFE
THEIR CHILD
EDWIN THOMPSON
1873- 1875
William Shepherd was born on 7 June 1796 in Dedham,
Massachusetts and died 28 August 1883 in Manchester, New Hampshire. He was the son of John Shepherd and Sally
Fairbanks.
Mary Doak was born 18 September 1800 in Marblehead,
Massachusetts, and died 17 December 1884.
She was the daughter of “R. Doak” of Marblehead according to her death
record in the New Hampshire vital records.
Although there were many DOAK/DOAKE/DOKE records in the Marblehead
published vital records, there was no one with a first name beginning with the
letter R.
William Shepherd and Mary Doak were married on 18
December 1825 in Boston, Massachusetts. They
had eight children: William F, Charles
Henry, George Franklin, John B., Hannah M, Sarah E, Maria Louisa, Samuel R.,
and Joseph L. Shepherd. Four of the
children (Samuel, Sarah, James and Joseph) are listed on this tombstone. The
rear of the stone reads “ERECTED BY Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Thompson and Mrs. A. H.
Bixby 1907”
From the website Yodelout!
Travel
“In Manchester, New
Hampshire, is an old hotel which has borne several names and finally was
removed bodily and joined to another hotel. Recently the house was purchased,
refitted and renamed, being now called the Rice Varick Hotel.
For many years after it was originally built,
in 1840, the place was called Shepherd’s Tavern, from the landlord, William
Shepherd, who leased it from the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, which built
the house, having just sold off by auction a number of building lots in the town.
The house prospered, and in 1851 was much enlarged. Not long afterwards
Shepherd purchased the property, which later was named the Manchester House.
Situated so remotely from the great centres of things, the old hotel was
nevertheless favored with guests whose names were house-hold words throughout
the nation. President Lincoln, President Pierce, John C. Calhoun, Lewis Cass,
General Winfield Scott, General Benjamin F. Butler, Theodore Parker, Daniel
Webster and Stephen A. Douglass were among those who stopped at Shepherd’s
Tavern. When the hotel building was moved a few years ago and incorporated with
the New Manchester House, its old names were discarded, and it was known by the
name of the latter. Its historical significance is entirely confined to the nineteenth
century.”
According to the Find A
Grave website for this tombstone, “Also in this family lot are two of his employees/or
individuals that lived in the hotel. Hepsabeth Dudley who was 60 in 1850 but
doesn't have an occupation listed for her and Susan Robbins who was buried in
this lot after his death. She is also listed in the 1850 census, but in 1903
she was working at another hotel when she died. Should there be a blood
relationship, this writer could not locate it and would appreciate it if
someone could contact me if they know of one.” https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75651084/william-shepherd
Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ SHEPHERD family of Manchester, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 11, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/12/tombstone-tuesday-shepherd-family-of.html: accessed [access date]).
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