Mary Fontaine Shepard

b. 3 January 1860, d. 29 September 1882
  • Mary Fontaine Shepard was born on 3 January 1860 in Perry County, Alabama.
  • Alexander Knowles Shepard Jr. appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. Other members of the household included Mary Fontaine Shepard, Charlotte Coleman Shepard and Lula Shepard. The children are enumerated as Alex (age 11), Mary (10), Charlotte (8) and Lula (7) Shepherd, black Alabama-born schoolchildren, in the large household of washerwoman Janette Fordes, between a large rooming house and the household of a Bavarian instrument-maker, and their fathert has yet to be found in the 1870 census.
  • Mary Fontaine Shepard died on 29 September 1882 at age 22 in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
  • Last Edited: 28 Feb 2015