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Mary Booker[1]

Female Est 1747 - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name Mary Booker 
    Born Est 1747  Cumberland, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I5116  My Reynolds Line
    Last Modified 3 Dec 2014 

    Family William Shapard/Sheppard,   b. Est 1740, Cumberland, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married Est 1762 
    Children 
    +1. John S. or T. Shapard/Sheppard,   b. Est 1778, Cumberland, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 3 Dec 2014 
    Family ID F1870  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
    THE VIRGINIA GENEALOGIST  Volume 5, No.4  October - December, 1961 page 173-174
    THE VIRGINIA GENEALOGIST Volume 5, No.4 October - December, 1961 page 173-174
    TheVaGeneaologist-V05N04.pdf

  • Sources 
    1. [S3] Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston.
      THE VIRGINIA GENEALOGIST Volume 5, No. 4 Pate 173
      (See Documents)
      Issue of William and Mary (Booker) Shapard, probably virtually all born in Cumberland Co., Va (Shapard was the definite preference in spelling of this branch of the Sheppard family.")

      John S. Shapard the ninth child of William and Mary Shapard, born say 1782, married 1808, Person Co., NC, Elizabeth Vass, daughter of Philip and Elizabeth (Webb) Vass.

      Mary Booker (James 3, James2 ______1) is the daughter of James Booker and his first wife (Elizabeth Hubbard") has been located since the article "The Booker Family of Petsworth Parish, Glouchester Co., VA and South Farnham Parish, Essex Co., VA" which appeared in this magazine, v.5, pp.51-64, was prepared for publication. Mary Booker married, William Shapard (Sheppard), son of Samuel and Mary Kavanaugh Sheppard, and grandson of Robert and Jessica (Hubard) sheppard.1 His brother Samuel Sheppard refers to him only as "my brother William who moved to North Carolina" and gives no further information. On 12 Oct 1762 "William Shepherd of the County of Essex bought a tract on the branches of Green Creek in Cumberland Co., VA, bounding on the land of John Woodson, from one Thomas Wright.2 On 27 June 1785 "William Shapard and Mary his wife and Samuel Shapard of the County of Cumberland" sold this tract to Richard Wilson.3 Thereupon William and Mary with the bulk of their family moved on down to Granville Co., NC and settled near Mary's Sister Amy (Booker) Webb......